From Reuters: China is a rising trade colossus with more farmers than any other country in the world, but it is expected to keep a low profile at world trade talks this week as negotiators debate contentious agricultural reforms. The December 13-18 WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong will be struggling to reach agreement on […]
Read MoreFrom the News International via East Asia News: China denounced US criticism of its human rights record on Sunday in what has become a routine exchange of accusations and said the United States was guilty of double standards. The US State Department marked International Human Rights Day on Saturday by cataloguing what it saw as […]
Read MoreFrom Voice of America: The Chinese government has confirmed that people died last week when police fired on demonstrators protesting land compensation in a southern village. But officials say only three people were killed, while witnesses put the death toll as high as 20. China’s official Xinhua news agency said Saturday that police were “forced […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CTV: Ziyi Zhang‘s scrappy young Chiyo — renamed Sayuri once she becomes a geisha — learns from her mentor Mameha (Michelle Yeoh) that geishas are not courtesans and not wives, but living, breathing works of art trained to elegantly entertain. And Mameha warns her that they’re certainly not allowed to fall in […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: A 43-year-old apparatchik, Wang Wei wasn’t the type to make headlines. Just a few months ago, he’d become the city of Jilin’s deputy mayor responsible for, among other things, industrial management and work safety. But the day after a Nov. 13 benzene-plant explosion in the city killed five people and wounded dozens, Wang […]
Read MoreFrom Time: You don’t have to look far to see why Chinese grow up learning to hate Japan. Take the forthcoming children’s movie, “Little Soldier Zhang,” which Beijing-based director Sun Lijun says he made having “learned a lot from Disney.” The film chronicles the adventures in the 1930s of Little Zhang, a cute 12-year-old boy […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via ABCNews.com: China’s government Sunday announced the detention of a commander whose forces opened fire on villagers protesting land seizures, trying to defuse anger over what could be the deadliest use of force since the killings around Tiananmen Square in 1989. The government said three people were killed in the Dec. 6 […]
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Read MoreFrom Mainichi Daily News: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dismissed as “temporary” deteriorating ties with China and South Korea as he left Sunday for an Asian summit and a maelstrom of anti-Japanese sentiment among Japan’s most important neighbors. At the meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Koizumi is also expected to finalize a free-trade pact with host […]
Read MoreFrom the Observer: Kidney patients who need a transplant in Britain are being targeted by a medical group offering them new organs taken from executed Chinese prisoners. The horrifying trade in human organs has been revealed by British surgeons who say patients are being tempted abroad, but may not fully understand the dangers or the […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe: Zhang Bijian, a senior adviser to President Hu Jintao, is the chief architect of China’s “peaceful rise” policy and chairman of the China Reform Forum, a government-associated think tank. In a recent interview with Jehangir S. Pocha, a Globe correspondent in Beijing, Zhang explained why he thinks China’s growing influence will […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder, via Mercury News: One can only imagine the shock that the Great Helmsman would feel if he came back to life and strolled through China’s cities. But that misses the broader point: Whatever the Chinese Communist Party’s orientation, it retains Mao’s propensity for authoritarian rule and uses him as a buttress to […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China has prosecuted and punished nearly 50,000 corrupt officials at various levels in the on-going nationwide anti-corruption drive in the recent two years, said a senior official with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. The Chinese government and law enforcement organs have made vigorous and continuous efforts in combating corruption, said Wang Zhenchuan, deputy procurator-general […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: After almost a decade of explosive growth in its electronics industry, China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest supplier of information technology goods, according to a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Data in the report due to be published Monday show that China’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Global commerce is neatly wrapped for Christmas on the streets of Toytown. In cardboard boxes. Thousands of the corrugated containers filled with Chinese-made vinyl dolls, plastic action figures, electronic gadgets, video games, clothing and die-cast cars pour daily into wholesale and retail toy shops in a dozen-block area on the […]
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