Photo: On December 11, nine Henan families who have lost their children gathered in Beijing.
On December 11, nine families of missing children gathered to gain public support, by Luo Xianming; via ESWN blog.
Read MoreChina beat Columbus to it, perhaps – Economist
From The Economist: THE brave seamen whose great voyages of exploration opened up the world are iconic figures in European history. Columbus found the New World in 1492; Dias discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488; and Magellan set off to circumnavigate the world in 1519. However, there is one difficulty with this confident […]
Read MoreChina Proposes Fewer Dams in Power Project to Aid Environment – Jim Yardley
From the New York Times: A government environmental review has recommended reducing the number of dams included in a controversial hydropower proposal on the Nu River in southwestern China in order to limit environmental damage and decrease the number of people who would be resettled, a Hong Kong newspaper has reported. The newspaper, Wen Wei […]
Read MoreReport: China Internet Use Catching Up With US – Gene J. Koprowski
From Technology News: China is now the nation with the second largest number of Internet users — with 20 million new users going online last year — and is coming close to the U.S. in terms of total broadband users too, according to a new research report. The total number of Chinese Internet users reached […]
Read MoreChina: Web censorship gives US pause for thought – Declan McCullagh
From silicon.com: After hearing reports that US tech giants such as Microsoft and Yahoo! are abiding by Chinese law mandating internet censorship, some irritated US politicians are threatening to pass laws restricting such co-operation. Representative Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican, said on Thursday that the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Human Rights, which […]
Read MoreChina breaks the iron rice bowl – Martine Bulard
From Le Monde Diplomatique: China has moved into fourth position in the league table of world economies, but only a third of its population has access to the new temple of consumerism. The rural poor, internal imigrants and laid-off workers suffer worst from the gross new inequalities. Somewhere between the third and fourth ringroad in […]
Read MoreAngry Youth, Petty Bourgeois and Commercial Bloggers РJiang Xun (江迅)
From The Asia Week, translated by EastSouthWestNorth: CCTV Economic Channel producer Hu Yong (ËÉ°Ê≥≥) has been called an “Internet pioneer” on mainland China. Hu Yong said: “Concerning the Internet in China, there are usually two popular views in the west. One of them consists of unreasonable optimism, for the belief is that western thoughts and […]
Read MoreFiltering the China filters – Andrew Leonard
From Salon, via A Glimpse of the World: I currently subscribe to 15 China-related blogs on my blog-reader. Most of them are filters that point to hundreds of other sources of information. Add in a couple of Google News alerts on specific Sino-related topics, and my daily info-dump on the Middle Kingdom is staggering. Indeed, […]
Read MoreChinese govt issues African Policy Paper – Xinhua
From Xinhua – English: The Chinese government issued the African Policy Paper on Thursday, presenting to the world the objectives of China’s policy toward Africa and the measures to achieve them. In the African Policy Paper, the Chinese government put forward its proposals for cooperation with Africa in various fields in the coming years, with […]
Read MoreDissecting the ‘Chinese Miracle – Peter Zeihan
From The Stratfor: ‘ The “Chinese miracle” has been a leading economic story for several years now. The headlines are familiar: “China’s GDP Growth Fastest in Asia.” “China Overtakes United Kingdom as Fourth-Largest Economy.” “China Becomes World’s Second-Largest Energy Consumer.” “China Revises GDP Growth Rates Upward — Again.” Everywhere, one can find news articles about […]
Read MoreLawmaker aims to stop China’s Net censorship – Hiawatha Bray
From The Boston Globe: One of the most aggressive human rights activists in Congress has found a new cause: stamping out Internet censorship in China. Representative Christopher H. Smith, a New Jersey Republican and chairman of a House subcommittee on human rights, plans to hold hearings next month on reports that US Internet companies, including […]
Read MoreChina’s rich getting younger: survey – Xinhua
From Xinhua: A recent survey shows that the newly rich in China are younger than ever. A study conducted by the Cenozoic Market Supervision Organization shows that 60 percent of the newly rich in China were born in the 1970s and are well-educated. The survey also categorizes the newly rich, aged from 18 to 45, […]
Read MoreYear of uneasy anniversaries ahead for China – Reuters
From Reuters, via The Australian: China’s Communist Party vigilantly guards its history, but this year the country must navigate a cascade of traumatic anniversaries of Mao Zedong’s rule that may provoke debate over its censored past. Forty years ago, in May 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, the tumultuous mass campaign that spiralled into a […]
Read MoreThe long march – Hamish McDonald
From the Sydney Morning Herald: WHEN Margaret Jones, the first Herald correspondent to be assigned to China, moved into a 15-storey apartment block in central Beijing in 1974, the yellow-and-white building was the acme of modernity in the Chinese capital. The city’s first high-rise built to earthquake-proof standards, it and another matching tower in the […]
Read MoreChina and India forge alliance on oil – Richard McGregor, Jo Johnson and Carola Hoyos
From The Financial Times: China and India, the world’s two fastest growing energy consumers, on Thursday set aside long-standing rivalries and agreed to co-operate in securing crude oil resources overseas. The agreement, aimed at preventing the two nations’ competition for oil assets pushing up prices, symbolises their increasingly assertive role in global energy politics. In […]
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