From The Jerusalem Post (link): Israeli arms developers are once again marketing their wares in China despite the 2004 crisis that developed with the US over a sensitive arms deal, Defense Ministry Director-General Ya’acov Toren revealed on Wednesday. “The military industries have returned to working on defense exports with China and other countries,” Toren told […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times (link): President George Bush travels to India March 1 for the first time in his presidency, highlighting the increasingly important role New Delhi is playing in world affairs. Many analysts see a stronger U.S. relationship with India as part of a longer-term effort to check China’s influence in Asia. India’s […]
Read MoreFrom PCWorld (link): ICANN denies reports that China established its own Internet domains. China’s Ministry of Information Industry has established a set of new top-level and second-level domain names, according to People’s Daily Online, the Web site of the official People’s Daily newspaper. The new domain name system took effect today, according to the report. […]
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Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): The US on Wednesday expressed concern that ever more sophisticated drug-trafficking cartels were using China’s inadequately controlled financial system to launder their proceeds, possibly even getting tax breaks in the process. Releasing its annual report on drug-trafficking worldwide, the State Department’s bureau for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs pointed […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune (link): Ensconced in a high-rise office suite as a manager at a Shanghai start-up firm, I frequently looked out of my window to watch the frantic activity outside. As construction cranes traced new outlines in the sky and ships carried goods down the river and out to sea, I always […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post (link): For months, Chinese leaders have been trying to quell tensions in the restive countryside with promises of more schools, health care and other aid to people who have missed out on the country’s economic boom. When parliament begins its annual session Sunday, they’ll need to start explaining […]
Read MoreFrom Voice of America (link): An almost unmentioned, but still important, issue in President Bush’s trip to India is China. Both the United States and India have interest in participating in China’s economic growth, but they both also have concerns about the growth of China’s military. Technorati Tags: China, India
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog (link): Nigeria has criticised Washington for failing to help protect the country’s oil assets from rebel attack, forcing it to turn to other military suppliers, including China, for support. Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s vice-president, told the Financial Times the US had been too slow to […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily (link): The Chinese government is looking for a solution to the protests that have occurred in China’s rural areas over recent years, a senior CPC member said in Beijing on Wednesday. “Although these incidents have only occurred occasionally in a few rural villages, the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the government […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week (link): China’s growing appetite for energy has caused widespread concern in the West. The Middle Kingdom is blamed for the sharp increase in global oil prices in the past few years. Meanwhile, the U.S. is uneasy about Beijing’s cozy relations with major oil producers such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Venezuela […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): President Hu Jintao of China reacted sharply on Tuesday to the decision by President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan to terminate the island’s unification council, calling it “a grave provocation” and “a dangerous step on the road toward Taiwan independence.” President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan displayed in Taipei yesterday the […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe (link): Internet authorities in China have set up a new family of Chinese-language alternatives to .com and other popular Internet address domains. It’s a move that bypasses the US-sponsored organization that controls address information for the global Internet, and some analysts fear that it could enhance China’s ability to censor its […]
Read MoreFrom the Mercury News (link): Google’s research chief said the search giant and other technology firms with Chinese operations are discussing a code of principles to address censorship and protection of people’s privacy in repressive countries. At Santa Clara University Monday night, Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, provided some insight into the internal debates […]
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