From the Los Angeles Times: The movie starts when the day becomes night. Real life continues to drift by. Herds of water buffalo. Men balancing buckets of water across their shoulders. Villagers carrying torches to guide their way home. They march right through this ephemeral theater amid jagged mountains and rice paddies, throwing black shadows […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: China, India and Austria have condemned a US decision to impose sanctions on nine firms which it believes have supplied Iran with military equipment. China, which is home to six of the firms concerned, has demanded that the US State Department lift the sanctions… The measures – which will remain in place […]
Read MoreAt the end of the year, Netease, one of the top three portals in China, has posted a special feature “Telling the Truth Directly” (“ÂÆûËØùÂÆûËØ¥”) which quotes the official line on various issues and events from 2005, followed by a sarcastic interpretation of the comments. Commercial portals like Netease are not permitted to do their […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China’s legal system often hands down verdicts that the powerless consider unfair. But a bigger problem is that courts often refuse to issue any verdict at all – or even acknowledge that some bothersome legal complaints exist. The English translation is simply “put on the record” or “register a case,” […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Chen Weiying, a peasant protest leader in southern China whose struggle was the subject of a Washington Post article last month, was detained by police and has been in custody since Dec. 1, a peasant rights group reported Friday. Chen, 43, who has two daughters, was formally charged sometime after her […]
Read MoreFrom the New Yorker Magazine: Modern Shanghai combines the soul of Houston with the body of Las Vegas. In Pudong, the city’s booming financial district, flashing trails of colored lights race up and down the shafts of office towers, as if they were casinos. One freshly minted skyscraper, Aurora Plaza, has a fa√ßade of gold […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The Department of Energy has delayed until the beginning of February the release of a study examining how China’s growing demand for energy will affect US “political, strategic, economic and national security”. The study, which was meant to be completed in December and will also involve input from the departments of […]
Read MoreFrom China Newsweek: China’s current pool of migrant workers, or cheap labor from the rural areas, is the second generation of migrant worker since China opened its economy 20 years ago. This new generation of worker looks very much like his urban counterpart in terms of appearance, but is no nearer to gaining a foothold […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: China’s growing demand for energy sources and profitable construction deals is leading the world’s most populous country increasingly to swoop into Africa, where it has found abundant raw materials, governments desperate for outside investments, and relatively little competition from American firms. The Chinese, sensing Africa’s tremendous potential upside, are making strategic […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune, via A Glimpse of the World: Headlines about China’s advance have been coming thick and fast this past week. The economy is 17 percent bigger than previously estimated. It is about to surpass every country in Europe except Germany and still growing at 9 percent. China’s information technology exports have […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: A Chinese activist who was detained for more than three months after helping a village protest has been released without charges. Guo Feixiong was held in September after he assisted farmers in Taishi village in the southern province of Guangdong to try to remove their chief. They accused the leader of embezzling public […]
Read MoreABC News: China gives no ground on democracy for Hong Kong: Chinese President Hu Jintao gave no hint on a timetable for universal suffrage for Hong Kong on Tuesday and said any change must be gradual, a week after lawmakers there rejected Beijing-backed election reforms. During talks in Beijing, Hu underscored China’s support for Hong […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: China’s state auditors will extend their search for government corruption next year to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Xinhua news agency said, probing the massive construction schemes being readied for the event. The audit could shine unprecedented light on the Beijing Olympic organising committee which is overseeing the massive project of preparing the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Globe and Mail: A former Cabinet minister was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison on charges of taking more than $500,000 (U.S.) in bribes, in China’s highest-level corruption case since a deputy chairman of parliament was executed in 2001. Tian Fengshan, former minister of land and resources, was convicted of taking […]
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