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 MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom 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 […]
Read MoreFrom a Los Angeles Times editorial: CHINA IS AN EASY TARGET for our economic grumbling. It is ruled by a Communist Party. Its currency, the yuan, does not float freely. It often looks like a monolithic machine, with factories of assembly-line workers churning out low-cost goods to fund its march toward world domination. It has […]
Read MoreFrom UPI: A big part of China`s efforts to put its affairs in order before lunar new year celebrations is focused on energy security issues with other developing nations. Two events Thursday illustrated Beijing`s ambitions: collaboration with Africa and managing a potential rivalry with India on securing energy resources. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The European Union’s recent launch of the first of 30 satellites in its multibillion-dollar Galileo global navigation system was hailed across the Continent as a giant step in breaking the U.S monopoly of space-based networks. But China’s participation in the project raises important security issues that need to be addressed […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: You can find anything you want on China’s Internet: sex, fashion, business, travel, entertainment, and romance. Except Democracy, Tiananmen, Taiwan, human rights, Tibet and hundreds of other subjects such as universities and governments. Chinese searching the Internet for key, or “black” words are likely to be arrested, tried, and imprisoned, […]
Read MorePolluted river: floating trash in a canal in Beijing; via Boxunnews.com.
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Welcome to the cutting edge of Thailand’s flirtation with Chinese, an ancient language increasingly seen as the new dialect of diplomacy and trade in East Asia. In the last few decades, China’s economic rise has rippled across the globe, jolting policymakers and dazzling investors. In its wake, Mandarin is also […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Tiny short-term victories in China’s own national domestic pacification campaign obscure a larger truth. In today’s world, the effort to corral 1.3 billion Chinese and to sharply restrict their freedom of expression is a fool’s game. The best that can be said about it is that it is an enormous […]
Read MoreFrom CNNMoney.com: Wal-Mart may rule the retail roost at home, but establishing that same kind of dominance in China won’t be easy. Several European supermarket operators as well as a handful of Chinese supermarket chains are all expanding there at a fast clip, jostling for early dominance in this fast-growing market. Some industry watchers say […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Tired and frustrated, Wang Guoxiang and other Xiangtan city officials were slurping a midnight snack of instant noodles last Friday when the anti-pollution chief for Hunan province walked into their crisis room. Immediately, Wang said, he stopped eating and shouted at the visitor. At the top of his voice, he insisted […]
Read MoreFrom the Korea Times: China this week revised upward its growth rate for 1979-2004 by an additional 0.2 percentage point . to an average of 9.6 percent per year . in accordance with the findings of its first national economic survey. But while the economy is expanding at an explosive pace, the government is fearful […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: China’s economists are grappling with the significance of the country’s economic size after gross domestic product (GDP) was officially restated as being much larger than previously thought. They are warning that, while the country’s bigger and more mature status is winning accolades from investment banks, the new picture […]
Read MoreOn September 20, 2005, a woman is robbed by two men in Dongguan, Guangzhou; from Southern Metropolis Daily, via ESWN blog.
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