The International Herald Tribune: U.S.-Japanese relations have come a long way in the 60 years since the end of World War II, with Japan now showing a growing desire to be treated like a “normal” country when it comes to collective security arrangements and shouldering more of the burden for its own defense. Prime Minister […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: Despite growing pressure for openness, Chinese officials have concealed bird-flu outbreaks in several provinces for many months this year, a leading scientific expert says. “I don’t know if they are brave enough to admit that they have the virus in every corner of the country,” said Guan Yi, a virologist […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABCNews.com: Armed police have sealed off a village in southern China after violent clashes with residents that rights group Amnesty International said marked the first time Chinese police had fired on protesters since 1989. Residents said riot police had opened fire on Tuesday on protesters in the village of Dongzhou in Guangdong […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: Many North Korean refugees who flee to China every year end up as sex slaves and China often sends them back for punishment, the U.S. ambassador for fighting international slavery said in Beijing on Friday. John Miller, the director of the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: One of China’s newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of World of Warcraft and Magic Land hang above a corps of young people glued to their computer screens, pounding away at their keyboards in the latest hustle for money. Workers have strict quotas and […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The United States is rapidly losing its influence in the Southeast Asia region to China, thanks to an overly narrow focus on terrorism and a propensity to place bilateral ties above multilateral relationships, according to US and Chinese analysts. “China makes a point of dealing with Southeast Asia as a region […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it may seek to investigate bird flu control measures in China’s northeastern Liaoning province, where the country’s fifth human case has been reported. A 31-year-old woman farmer, who has now recovered, lived in Heishan county where there had been an outbreak of bird flu […]
Read MoreFrom MOSNEWS.COM: President Hu Jintao has vowed to “spare no effort” to minimize the damage from a chemical spill on Russia as Beijing mulled plans to build a temporary dam to stop the slick, the AFX news agency reported. “We will take all necessary and effective measures and do our utmost to minimize the pollution […]
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: Hong Kong’s latest pro-democracy demonstration will fuel its people’s determination to shape their own political future, reports Agnes Chong. On Sunday 4 December 2005, tens of thousands of protestors marched through the streets of Hong Kong demanding universal suffrage. While observers were quick to notice that the numbers were significantly fewer than the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Washington Post: Two days of discussions between the United States and China found common ground on contentious issues but the two sides agreed they sometimes will use differing policies to reach mutual goals. U.S. officials emerged from the sessions seemingly convinced that the Chinese government has made a policy decision to […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: In a rare disclosure of the enormous hidden cost of China‘s rapid economic development, the Chinese government acknowledged last week that “sudden public incidents“ such as industrial accidents, social safety accidents, and natural disasters are responsible for over one million casualties and the loss of six percent of GDP […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The eradication of poverty in China has stalled since the country joined the World Trade Organisation four years ago, with more than three-quarters of rural households expected to suffer a cut in real incomes between 2001-07, a report warns today. The study by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online: Students hoping to make the grade for university entry in China next year will have a new subject added to their already exhausting exam curriculum: Olympic knowledge. The addition is part of the frenzy gripping China since the capital, Beijing, won the right to host the 2008 Olympics. Hoardings on every main […]
Read MorePhoto series: newly established riot police force in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, via bbs.tom.com.
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: China’s rise as an economic powerhouse is resulting in a rapid expansion of its system of higher education, making it the fastest-growing destination for American foreign exchange students, a study has found. The number of American students seeking higher education in China has never been greater, increasing by 90 percent […]
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