From the Los Angeles Times, another article about the recent backlash against Chinese in Africa, especially Zambia: China’s hunger for raw materials and energy is driving new investment across Africa, with trade between China and the continent up more than 300% since 2000 to more than $40 billion a year. China is the main market […]
Read MoreUsed to be that the domestic headlines from a “golden week” ended with little besides big, bullish numbers: the record-setting throngs of shoppers at malls, the umteen newlyweds tying the knot at mass weddings, the swelling tides of humanity making homecomings and tourist pilgrimages by plane, train and automobile. More and more, though, local metropolitans […]
Read MoreFrom Real Instituto Elcano: China’s strong GDP growth in the last few months (11.3% in the second quarter of 2006) has led some analysts to believe that there are signs that the Asian giant’s growth could be out of control. According to this view, the cooling measures implemented by the government since the end of […]
Read MoreTwo children reading under the street lamps in Kunshan, via www.50mm.cn
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: For I. M. Pei(Ë≤ùËÅøÈäò), the sprawling white stucco museum that opened to great fanfare here this weekend is both a possible swan song and a second chance. The only other building he has ever designed in mainland China, a luxury hotel completed in Beijing in 1982, was a disappointment that […]
Read MoreMajor western press such as Reuters and The New York Times all reported on the ” turning point” of Sino-Japan relations started with the visit of the new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to China on Oct. 8th. This is the first time China accepted a Japanese Prime Minister’s visit since April 2002, when the […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg News Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the nation’s biggest by assets, plans to raise as much as $19.1 billion in the world’s largest initial public offering, four people involved in the sale said. Beijing-based ICBC plans to offer 35.4 billion shares at HK$2.56 to HK$3.07 apiece, said the people, who declined […]
Read MoreWang Jianli, head of the News Department of the Ministry of Information Industry, said regulations on cell phone real name registration will be released within this year, according to a report by East Daily. Current unregistered cell phone users will have to get their phones registered. East Daily also reported earlier this year that Shanghai […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: As China’s leadership prepares for a key meeting, President Hu is showing he means business when he calls for unity in the party. In advance of a key Communist Party meeting this weekend, Chinese President Hu Jintao has worked overtime to burnish the image of harmony in the party, even […]
Read MoreChina Media Project at Journalism & Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong posted on its website three Internet censorship cases in Chongqing city. From those three cases you can clearly see how China is controlling the Internet. Chongqing police say all Internet users must register by October 30 or face fines and […]
Read MoreAfter China took over Hong Kong, the central government has been encouraging mainland visitors to go shopping in the island. The policy turned out quite successful in pushing up Hong Kong’s economy. But in this “Golden Week” less people visited Hong Kong. Read the story from The Standard, a Hong Kong local English newspaper. Hong […]
Read MoreThe Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently held a debate over the question, “Is Communist Party Rule Sustainable in China?” between China scholars Andrew Nathan and Roderick MacFarquhar. The whole debate can be viewed on the Carnegie site, and both Nathan’s and MacFarquhar’s statements can be downloaded there as PDF files.
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: The Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in Beijing on Sunday morning. A major item of the agenda is to study the issue of building a harmonious socialist society and deliberate a draft of the “resolutions of the CPC Central Committee on […]
Read MoreChina is among the countries whose companies are most intent to pay briberies abroad, said Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation addressing global corruption. China was ranked second on Transparency International 2006 Bribe Payers Index, a survey on the propensity of companies from 30 leading exporting countries to bribe abroad. According to the index, companies from […]
Read MoreFrom Sydney Morning Herald: …… Chinese society is experiencing a widening income and lifestyle gulf, between rural and urban residents, rich and poor, those with a city “hukou” – a residence card that gives access to education and health care, and those adrift and homeless. And as for the return of the reviled bourgeoisie and […]
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