From Wall Street Journal, via China Daily (link): China’s legislature is taking on a new role: a target for interest groups to lobby. With nearly 3,000 delegates gathered in the capital until next week for the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress, some representatives of different interest groups have also flocked to Beijing. They […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times (link): With the dispute over Iran’s controversial nuclear program moving this week to the United Nations Security Council, the stage is set for a perilous confrontation between the Islamic Republic and the international community – a showdown that not only Tehran but also world powers China and Russia have fought to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times (link): For the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People’s Congress, the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session, is consumed with an ideological debate over socialism and capitalism that many assumed had been buried by China’s long streak of fast economic growth. The controversy […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post (link): Repression pays. Until that reality is acknowledged by American companies operating in China, they will have little influence over social and political change in the Middle Kingdom or even over their own operations there.That holds true for members of Congress who are abruptly chastising China’s Leninist rulers for cheating on […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via A Glimpse of the World: China’s Communist Party is not stalling on badly needed political reform to curb chronic corruption, but any change must not bring chaos, a vice-president of the school which trains up-and-coming party officials said. Alarmed by rampant graft, which succeeded in toppling many imperial dynasties, the party has […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent (link): China’s spectacular economic boom will mean the death of its major economic and maritime hub, the Bohai sea, unless action is taken to stop industrial pollution of its waters, environmental advisers said yesterday. The warnings, yet another example of the crisis gripping the world’s fastest-growing major economy, come as China tries […]
Read MoreThe China Environment News Digest points to an article on Mongabay.com about the potentially bright future of wind power in China [Link]: Wind could become China’s second-largest source of electricity according to a Chinese energy expert. Wang Weicheng, an energy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, told reporters that China has the potential to install […]
Read MoreA fisherman back from the sea, in Zhoushan Medlar Island, Zhejiang province, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom BBC (link) The Supreme Court has named a Judicial Court of Intellectual Property to address cases throughout the country, said Sun Huapu, a court spokesman. China’s burgeoning fake goods market is causing tension with the US, which has said it forfeits up to $3.8bn in lost sales annually. China has also launched a website […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media (link): Shanghai reporter Liu Ming hurries back to his office after a news conference with a state firm to file his report. He finds on his desk an instruction not to report what he heard. “The censors read Reuters and Bloomberg and decided the news was […]
Read MoreFrom globeandmail.com (link): From around 1949, Tibet witnessed a series of unprecedented events, marking the beginning of a new era in its history. As stated in documents, the issue of Tibet was purportedly decided in 1951 through an agreement between the central and local governments, taking into consideration the special status of Tibet and the […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal (link): Despite its claims to special status as the guardian angel of unfettered expression, the Internet industry’s commercial success–and indeed that of the Internet itself–depends crucially on including in its mantras a commitment to protecting the ideas of private markets and free trade, ideas equally responsible for the long-running success […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune (link): At the mouth of the most charming little lane in old Beijing stands a yogurt vendor, waiting for my question. “Hello,” I say. “I’m looking for a real estate agency called I Love My House.” She pauses, searches my foreign eyes for signs of madness and shakes her head. […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times (link): LAST FALL, a magazine editor in Beijing named Li Datong decided to feature a historical article about Taiwan in his weekly, Freezing Point. It was a straightforward account of Taiwan’s harsh political repression in the 1950s and how democratically elected legislators are coping with that history. In China, where Taiwan […]
Read MoreFrom BBC (link): Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has repeated his wish to visit China, on the anniversary of the 1959 uprising against China’s takeover. The Dalai Lama has made several such calls before, but China has always refused, accusing him of separatism. The Dalai Lama said he wanted to see for himself […]
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