From Reuters, via the Standard: China will not allow new cigarette factories, including joint ventures with foreign partners, as part of efforts to reduce smoking in a country that puffs its way through almost two trillion cigarettes a year. Beijing would also impose strict controls on existing tobacco production, including taxes on tobacco leaf and […]
Read MoreWriter Liu Xiaobo has posted an article which reveals that Yahoo cooperated with Chinese police in 2003, much earlier than the Shi Tao case. Yahoo provided evidence to authorities for the arrest of Chinese Internet user Li Zhi, who was charged with “subverting state power” and sentenced to eight years in prison. The original defense […]
Read MoreESWN has translated the following article, which originally appeared on Wenxue City: The principal work of the Internet police is to look around the Internet to catch criminals. They monitor the Internet bars, they look for pornographic, reactionary and other harmful material on the Internet and they solve Internet crimes based upon the clues. There […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) holds a Congress of Delegates every five years to pick a new Central Committee and Politburo. While the 17th CCP Congress is not due to take place until autumn 2007, President and General Secretary Hu Jintao has already started the crucial task of inserting […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: A Chinese civil rights campaigner who was assaulted by thugs this week was unreachable and appeared to have gone missing on Wednesday after announcing plans to stage a hunger strike outside Beijing’s leadership compound. Yang Maodong’s activism set him on a collision course with the Communist Party, which has […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: China’s growth has sparked a global race with the West for markets and industrial resources. Africa has become a frontier of opportunity for the world’s most populous country and its fastest growing economy. That has meant opportunity, aid and even key diplomatic support _ China is a veto-wielding […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Chinese Internet mavens wasted no time expressing their ire at Google for its participation in the censorship…. But for all of their disappointment, many observers of recent changes in Chinese society say the news of Google’s concessions to censorship will do little to reverse a trend toward increasingly free expression […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The Pentagon’s new Quadrennial Defense Review makes the first formal step in designating China the number one enemy. Most coverage of the QDR has focused on the planned growth of special operations forces, its hardware decisions, and its articulation of a “long war” against terrorism. But buried in the hard-to-penetrate bureaucratize […]
Read MoreFrom The BusinessWeek: A new economic study says the U.S. gains plenty from its commerce with China, while admitting that disruptions are also significant. America’s rocketing trade deficit with China has spelled misery for many U.S. factory workers and owners. And it raises alarms for economists and politicians worried about America’s deteriorating balance of payments. […]
Read MoreFrom The Mail & Guardian Online: With vibrant economies and more than a billion people each, China and India might seem obvious candidates for the Group of Eight (G8), but analysts say the road to membership will be long. Russia is now heading the G8 for the first time, inevitably triggering questions about why the […]
Read MoreA worker in a factory in Wenzhou, producing cellphones to be exported abroad through Hong Kong, via zjol.com.
Read More“Ha Ha Ha America,” a 17-minute film shown at the Sundance Film Festival this year, is described as a “translated harangue from China to the U.S.A. that laughs at our missteps.” It is available for viewing in its entirety on the Sundance website.
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China’s first survey on gay men entitled “Chinese MSM (men who have sex with men): survey on sex and the state of self-identity” was completed in Beijing recently. This 650,000-character report, supported by the Ford Foundation in the United States and published by Beijing Gender Consultation Center not only presents a comprehensive […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu News: Ahead of Myanmar Prime Minister Soe Win‘s maiden official visit, China on Tuesday urged the international community to play a constructive role in promoting national reconciliation in the neighbouring nation. Announcing Win’s visit to China from February 14 to 18, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said the Myanmarese leader would […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times, via The China Daily: The Bush administration on Tuesday said efforts by Chinese companies to buy international energy assets were not economically damaging to the US, dismissing growing concern among Washington lawmakers that China is hoarding global energy supplies. Although a study by the department of energy warned that efforts by […]
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