From The China Brief: Editor’s Note: This special issue of Jamestown’s China Brief is released just as the Chinese government revised its figures upward on the incidence of domestic social unrest. Yesterday, January 19, the Public Security Bureau revealed that the government recorded 87,000 “public order disturbances” in 2005″a 6.6 percent increase from figures for […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABC News: Nearly five years ago, the U.S. government exerted high-profile diplomatic pressure on China to secure the return of scholar Gao Zhan, a researcher at American University whom Beijing believed was a spy for Taiwan. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is pushing with equal vigor to have her deported back […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The book might at first seem an odd choice for Bush, whose taste in biography, like that of other U.S. presidents, runs to previous occupants of the Oval Office. But it is not so surprising given that “Mao: The Unknown Story” has been embraced by the right as a searing […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: China is willing to continuously advance the development of its friendly relations with Libya, visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said in Surt, Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi’s hometown, on Wednesday. At a meeting with Ghaddafi, Li said China will also boost the traditional friendship between the two peoples based on the […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Youth Daily, via Chinese E-Govenmence Net: (translated by CDT) Starting today, when netizens visit all the main portals of Shenzhen city, Guangdong, they will see two cartoon figures “Jingjing” and...
Read MoreFrom The Aljazeera.Net: King Abdullah has begun the first ever state visit to China by a Saudi leader, expected to focus on boosting co-operation to fuel China’s soaring energy needs. The visit marks the first part of an Asian tour that will take him on to India, Malaysia and Pakistan. During his three-day stay in […]
Read MoreFrom The Chicago Tribune: At a bicycle-parts factory in the go-go city of Shenzhen, a grim drama began this month when a group of men barged into a factory office and confronted owner Lau Siu-fan. Still held hours later on Jan. 3, the Hong Kong businessman phoned his wife and said he had been beaten […]
Read MoreFrom The San Francisco Chronicle: Westerners wise in the ways of China have long been referred to as “old China hands.” Now, there are “new China hands” — people savvy in the ways of doing business in a post-Maoist China. Old China hands were diplomats, soldiers and missionaries dispatched to China to look after Western […]
Read MoreFrom smh.com.au: Arrogance and lack of experience can often be the downfall of businesses rushing to set up in China, writes Kirsty Needham. IT IS the new gold rush. Suit-clad gold diggers are pouring into the land of promise at a rate of a billion dollars a week. American, European and Australian investors are certain […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu Business Line: Do you know that India and China have as much population as that of “the next 20 largest countries combined”? Or that “some 80 per cent of the companies in Wal-Mart’s database of suppliers are now Chinese”? China and India are the focus of State of the World 2006 and […]
Read MoreFrom Jane’s Report: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is in the advanced stages of developing a revolutionary anti-ship ballistic missile to supplement its well known Ying-Ji family of anti-ship cruise missiles. The development programme has been confirmed by both US government and Asian military sources, with the latter estimating that the PLA may be […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Taipei Times: Land conflicts, unstable prices and backward conditions in China’s farm sector are threatening the country’s stability and its food supply, Premier Wen Jiabao (Ê∫´ÂÆ∂ÂØ∂) said in unusually blunt remarks published yesterday. Sustainable development and national stability depend on resolving such problems, Wen said in the text of a speech carried […]
Read MoreFrom The Taipei Times: Earlier this month it was reported that at the request of China’s rulers, Microsoft shut down the Web site of a Chinese blogger that was maintained on a Microsoft service called MSN Spaces. The blogger, Zhao Jing (Ë∂ô‰∫¨), had been reporting on a strike by journalists at the Beijing News that […]
Read MoreDuring Chinese Spring Festival, railway ticket price will go up at least 15%, via yecao.net.
Read MoreFrom MarketWatch: I’m not sure what’s more troubling — the fact that the U.S. government wanted to get its hands on the Internet search results of millions of its citizens, or that some of the leading search firms were so quick to provide the data. Privacy — or the lack of it — on the […]
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