The Pentagon has just issued its QDR (Quadrennial Defense Review Report (PDF)). The following text is under the heading of “Shaping the Choices of Countries at Strategic Crossroads”: Of the major and emerging powers, China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could over time […]
Read MoreFrom The Irrawaddy News Magazine: Chinese energy company PetroChina has reached an understanding to buy almost a tenth of Burma’s huge gas reserves. Those gas dollars will most likely be squandered on guns rather than education and healthcare. Many more dollars will probably flow as a pipeline plan, road, and railway projects suggest Beijing is […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via A Glimpse of the World: These are dark days for China’s media as the communist government, increasingly nervous about social unrest, intensifies control over what can and cannot be reported to the public, shutting down newspapers and sacking journalists who question its authority. But analysts and journalists say that the tighter it […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: Recent reported police killings of protestors in the southeast Chinese villages of Panlong and Dongzhou raise serious questions about China’s struggle for a more sophisticated strategy to contain mounting unrest. For now, mass protests don’t threaten the government’s survival, but the specter of chronic […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Dongshigu is a village that the Chinese authorities would like the outside world to ignore. This community of 400 farmers is located in Shandong province, the origin of the Confucian ethical code that has dominated the nation’s morals for more than 2,000 years. But it is now the site of one of […]
Read MoreFrom Knight-Ridder, via the San Jose Mercury News: Enthusiasm — rather than knowledge — is what marks the sudden rise of winter sports around China’s capital, where a flurry of ski resorts and an indoor ski dome have opened in the past few years. Some of the resorts are within sight of the Great Wall […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Li, 55, is not the senior-most nor the highest-graded among provincial party bosses of China. Yet he was given the task to talk to senior African officials on what Beijing means by building a harmonious society in China, and in particular, on his practical experiences in Jiangsu. This honor is the strongest […]
Read MoreFans of CRI Easy FM in at a shopping center in Xidan in Beijing, China, by Chris Verrill via Flickr.
Read MoreFrom the Economist: THE gods clearly smile on Shantou. This once poor district in southern China is the birthplace not just of Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong tycoon, but also more recently of one of mainland China’s richest men, Wong Kwong Yu, founder of Gome, an electrical-appliance retailer. According to a Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom National Review Online: The indignant condemnations came quickly for Google. Last week, news surfaced that the company was blocking access to certain politically sensitive terms and websites on its new China site. Since then, Congressman Chris Smith (R., N.J.) has accused Google ” which boasts “Don’t Be Evil” as its corporate motto ” of […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Beyond the mass media, voices of dissent are growing louder in Macau. Macau generally lags behind Hong Kong in democratization and public dissent. While half of Hong Kong’s legislature is popularly elected, just 12 of 29 members of Macau’s Legislative Assembly are chosen by the public, and political parties do not exist. […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: A plan to register millions of prepaid mobile-phone users in China will bring new inconveniences to subscribers, including foreigners, but could offer opportunities for foreign-invested telecommunication companies, industry experts say. The Ministry of Information Industry is working on a way to register an estimated 200 million mobile-phone users who pay in advance […]
Read MoreFrom the Voice of America: China faces environmental challenges, across the board. “Whether it’s air quality, or water quality or availability, or land degradation, China’s facing a very serious set of problems,” said Elizabeth Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations. She testified Thursday before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. “But, I think, […]
Read MoreEastSouthWestNorth has translated a portion of Investigation China: The Story Behind The News by Zhao Shilong: The following is a translation of a section from the book titled Investigation China: The Story Behind The News by veteran reporter Zhao Shilong (”√™¬¢¬°Àô). Zhao is one of the most famous investigative reporters in China, and the book […]
Read MoreFrom IEEE Spectrum: Qin Xinle’s teenage son had stopped eating meals regularly and had refused to go to school. The boy’s Internet addiction had gotten so bad he sometimes played online games for 24 hours without stop. Finally, at his wit’s end, Qin piled his family into their car and drove 5 hours to Beijing, […]
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