From Technology Review: China is an economic catastrophe waiting to happen. China is poised to become the world’s largest economy by 2025. Both these statements are true. They provide the context we must understand in order to evaluate rightly what the Chinese are attempting to do in the sciences. When Deng Xiaoping came to power […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: There are growing indications that the Chinese government, alarmed by last year’s “oil crisis” – which actually may have been manufactured by state- owned oil companies – is finally getting ready to liberalize its energy policy and allow more competition. Changes may include opening up the upstream oil market and liberalizing state-controlled […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited: China, the greatest economic success story of the 21st century so far, is calling on its growing middle class to share more of its good fortune with the needy. The government has made an appeal for charity amid rising criticism that the spirit of philanthropy is developing a lot less quickly […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The reclusive leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, was reported to be traveling in China and perhaps Russia on Tuesday, after his government refused again to return to six-nation talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons program unless the United States lifts sanctions targeting its finances. The Chinese government and the […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: AFTER MICROSOFT SHUT down a popular Chinese-language blog recently, a barrage of anti-Microsoft messages began zinging around the blogosphere in China. One of them took that famous photo of a lone student blocking a line of tanks near Tiananmen Square and superimposed the Microsoft logo on each tank. Such an […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: Top Chinese environmental protection officials have listed water pollution control in the Songhua River’s drainage area as one of the key water pollution control and prevention projects in the country. It is soliciting suggestions for a five-year plan concerning the control of the river’s pollution from 2006 to 2010. A stretch […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: As the 60-kilometer-long pollution slick on the Yellow River is moving further downstream, the government of east China’s Shandong Province lifted warning early Monday at two monitoring points bordering Shandong and Henan provinces. The water quality at Xiezhai and Liuzhuang points met safety standards at 2:00 a.m. Monday. The density of diesel oil […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily : The levels of cadmium in a small section of the Xiangjiang River in this Central China Province are still above safety levels after a spill last week, a senior provincial official said yesterday. The levels were “one or two times” higher than the national standard in the Wangcheng section of […]
Read MoreA woman with her son in the middle of the road in Chongqing; photo by Wang Xiaocun, via ESWN blog.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Shares in China’s top offshore oil and gas producer, CNOOC Ltd. leapt more than 4 percent on Tuesday as investors cheered the acquisitive firm’s planned $2.3 billion purchase of a stake in a Nigerian field. Analysts said the company’s largest-ever overseas acquisition was fairly priced and would help CNOOC gain valuable experience in […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: Secretive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il traveled to China on Tuesday, a South Korean military intelligence official said, raising hopes of a resumption of international talks on the North’s nuclear weapons program. China’s Foreign Ministry said Kim planned to visit Beijing at some point _ and the […]
Read MoreFarmers in Qionghai, Hainan Province preparing to plant rice; from duoweinews.com
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Slide over Hyundai”the next automotive upstart that takes the wheel in the U.S. will probably be Chinese. In Detroit this week, a small company called Geely (pronounced Jee-lee) will be the first Chinese automaker to display a car at the North American International Auto Show. Unveiling the compact sedan, whose name translates […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: As China’s industrial juggernaut has flooded foreign ports with cheap factory-made goods in recent years, its central bank coffers have filled with the bounty flowing back to these shores — a stash of foreign exchange now exceeding $800 billion. China’s leaders have steadily invested the bulk in one primary vehicle: the […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: China’s economic boom has an environmental dark side. While China’s economy continues to grow at a rate of more than 8% annually, as it has for more than two decades, the country’s environment and the Chinese people are paying a steep price. China now boasts five of the ten most polluted cities […]
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