From Prospect Magazine: I had been plotting my return to China for about a year, and now an invitation from Lanxin Xiang, author of a book on the Boxer rebellion, to lecture in Shanghai in September 2005 made it possible. I say “return,” because the last time I had been on the mainland was in […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: The United Nations investigator into extrajudicial killings has written to China seeking more information on the recent police shooting and killing of protesters in the southern village of Dongzhou, a spokesman said yesterday. Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, sent the letter a week ago […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: Chinese authorities have temporarily halted adoptions in some regions of Hunan province because of a continuing investigation of a baby-trafficking scandal, a senior Hunan official said. The official denied, however, that the scandal has prompted China to suspend all adoptions from Hunan, one of the main sources of Chinese children […]
Read MoreFrom Qialong Net (in Chinese), via Press Interpreter, translated By Joshua Dominick: In the next five years, 40% of Beijing homes hope to buy a car while in the previous five years, the number of homes with private cars has already increased three times, bringing the total number of private cars from 220,000 to 600,000. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: A climate of fear has gripped a South China fishing town as villagers evade patrols and defy a police campaign to encourage them to denounce their neighbours in the wake of a bloody crackdown two weeks ago. A cordon of checkpoints has virtually isolated the town of Dongzhou, where police put down protests […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: The southern Chinese cities of Guangzhou and Foshan were ordered Wednesday by local provincial government to soon start emergency plans to ensure safe drinking water supplies to their residents as a toxic slick approaches. The river pollution was caused by an excessive discharge of cadmium from a state-owned smeltery in the […]
Read MoreFrom Southern Metropolis Daily (in Chinese), translated by EastSouthWestNorth: In Shantou City, Chenhai District, Longdu Town, Zhucuopu Village, a 52-year-old mental patient Chen Zhisheng killed another person but he could not be convicted in court because of his state of mind. The village wanted to send him to a mental hospital, but they did not […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The recent revival of Sino- Japanese animosity, triggered by bitter disputes over history, territory and maritime natural resources, has the potential not only to derail China’s self-proclaimed goal of a “peaceful rise” but to disrupt healthy momentum towards east Asian economic integration. Obviously, Beijing and Tokyo must share the blame for […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Times: Russia is no longer in the same category as China. Whereas the “Middle Kingdom” is proudly regaining its former global status after centuries, Russia is defiantly trying to resurrect its former imperial status, but in a manner that appears doomed to fail. Russia has clearly taken giant steps in the wrong […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: China expects to bring potable water to 100 million rural residents by 2010, a state newspaper said, but that would still leave more than 200 million people with unsafe supplies.Plagued by droughts and shortages, China is unable to provide clean drinking water to 360 million people, with supplies affected by everything from […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via The Financial Express: China, the world’s largest coal producer, plans to halt production at 8,648 coal mines in 25 provinces by the end of this year, about 1,000 more than estimated in August, to boost competitiveness and safety. The government wants to reduce the number of small mines operating with outdated equipment […]
Read MoreChinese farmer’s children work in the farmland, via CRIenglish.com.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Many economists have long suspected that official government statistics were a slighter shadow of reality. With China’s announcement on Monday that its economy was far bigger than previously estimated, economists and financial prognosticators are scrambling to rethink their assessment of China’s rise and its role on the world stage. China’s […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: China’s secret network of mental institutions to punish political prisoners. For 13 years, Beijing dissident Wang Wanxing was locked up in a brutal psychiatric hospital. Now exiled to Germany, he tells Luke Harding how China is using a secret network of mental institutions to punish political prisoners It was as a small […]
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph: A 2,000-year-old grievance will be lifted next year when China scraps taxes for hundreds of millions of peasants, the government’s traditional source of revenue. Reforms introduced as proof of China’s commitment to those left behind by the economic boom are so far ahead of schedule that farm taxes, which date back to […]
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