From Reuters, via Billboard (link): The Rolling Stones will likely follow the beat of China’s censors when they offer mainland fans some long-awaited satisfaction with an April concert. The veteran British group, who had two shows in China canceled in spring 2003 because of the SARS epidemic, will make its mainland debut in Shanghai on […]
Read MoreFrom The MorganStanley.com (link): Rising internal tension over inequality and external friction over China’s trade success suggest that China’s government-led and export/investment-driven development model may be reaching its limits. It is in China’s interest to change the model before the tension reaches the point of triggering an economic crisis. China’s development model has concentrated financial […]
Read MoreFrom The Chicago Tribune (link): An increasingly influential slice of society, activists called fenqing are uprooting stereotypes about liberal youth. From a tidy apartment crammed with canvases, paintbrushes and his all-important computer, Wang Lei is a foot soldier in the fight for China’s glory. Online, this soft-spoken art instructor becomes a hard-line patriot. He savages […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua (link): A new economic index, that goes beyond reporting reams of hard industrial data, is emerging from annual meetings of regional legislatures that recently wrapped around the country. It’s called the ‘happiness index’. First coined in the city of Xi’an work report the idea is to find a way to measure ‘the happiness […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian (link): THE rise of China as a great economic power and the new experiments with multilateralism in East Asia will pose a challenge for US policy. The US has to recognise that there are new forces at play in the region that will alter the traditional balance of power and that the […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The Standard (link): A mainland journalist has been charged with inciting subversion for posting politically sensitive essays on the Internet, his wife said. Li Yuanlong, a journalist with the Bijie Daily newspaper in southwestern Guizhou province, was charged with “inciting subversion of state sovereignty” by the district court this month, Yang Xiumin […]
Read MoreA girl blows bubbles in a park, Beijing, via photo.xitek.com
Read MoreFrom The Standard (link): A widening income gap that threatens to tear China apart is likely to be a top item on the agenda when the National People’s Congress kicks off its annual full meeting next weekend. The 3,000 NPC delegates will be meeting just as tensions between the haves and the have-nots seem to […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard (link): Despite China’s sweeping reforms that have transformed a socialist command economy into a somewhat capitalist- style market, socialist ideology continues to manifest itself whenever there’s a chance. Despite China’s sweeping reforms that have transformed a socialist command economy into a somewhat capitalist- style market, socialist ideology continues to manifest itself whenever […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune (link): From automobiles to semiconductors, China is fast catching up with the rest of the world in manufacturing prowess, making it a formidable competitor for exporters everywhere. But does its rise necessarily spell doom for Southeast Asia’s big manufacturing centers? Not according to Teh Hok […]
Read MoreThe Public Radio International program the World reports on the ongoing hunger strike by activists in China and the role played by the Internet (link): A hunger strike in China has grown to include possibly hundreds of people across the country. Chinese authorities are cracking down on the strikers. But as The World’s Mary Kay […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (link): Now that the winter Olympians have stolen away from Italy with their skis, skates and polished granite curling stones, the eyes of the sports world turn with rising excitement to the 2008 summer games in Beijing. The excitement has been stirred by an irony of history. It […]
Read MoreFrom the AFP (link): A Chinese journalist has been charged with inciting subversion for posting politically sensitive essays on the Internet, his wife said Monday. Li Yuanlong, a journalist with the Bijie Daily newspaper in Guizhou Province in southern China, was charged with “inciting subversion of state sovereignty” by the local district court this month, […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online (link): THE audience of invited guests gasped and laughed from almost the first scene at yesterday’s premiere of one of the boldest domestic films yet shown in China. Perpetual Motion, from the director Ning Ying, has caused a stir even before it opens in China’s most cosmopolitan cities this week, with critics […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): In Shanghai’s long march to be the international city of the 21st century, no idea is too far-fetched. That, at least, is what Raymond Shaw is hoping. A Beijing-born American who runs the China office of an engineering multinational, Mr Shaw has launched a proposal to raise the 20-odd buildings […]
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