From Times Online: The name alone is enough to lure the intrepid. The Iron Silk Road, as the proposed new railway is called, conjures up Marco Polo, caravanserais and the battlefields of Genghis Khan. It will be years before a train can run from Shanghai to the the Gulf, and even longer before passengers can […]
Read MoreFrom The Moscow Times: Yevgenia Osadchaya is beside herself with worry, wondering how her family will survive when the toxic slick flowing from China pollutes the Amur River that provides the livelihood for her family and her native Nanai people. “Not eat fish for a whole year?” cried the 47-year-old, who is legally blind with […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: IT IS not easy these days to picture the US in the role of relationship therapist, patiently repairing the dangerous rift that has been growing between China and Japan. But that is exactly what those two major Asian powers need. Few things could be more vital for global peace and prosperity […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: Wen Jiabao‘s got a blog. Sina may boast actors, writers, and other big-name celebrities, but only Bokee claims a Premier. There’s only one category: “Affairs of State,” and the Premier post about statistics, mostly. All publicly available information. Mine accident deaths. Corruption sentences. Doesn’t look like he’s leaking any state secrets. UPDATE: […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CNN.com Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Hong Kong Sunday to protest the slow pace of democratic reforms, intensifying pressure on the government to speed up the movement toward full democracy. Organizers said about 250,000 people, with many clad in black, took part in the march — much […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited It wasa summer publishing sensation, an 814-page biography of a man the authors depict as the worst mass murderer of the 20th century, with 111 pages of notes and bibliography.Mao: The Unknown Story, by Jung Chang, celebrated author of the world bestseller, Wild Swans, and her husband, historian Jon Halliday, was […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Walking the streets of Shanghai, it’s easy to see why investors’ appetite for all things Chinese is running so high. As in so many boomtowns past and present, one can practically feel the energy. The sights, sounds and buzz of Shanghai make you wonder if Asia’s No. 2 economy is […]
Read MoreFrom The Newsweek: China has used soft power in the sense that it has exercised its power softly. It does this to show that it is not a bully, unlike guess who. Every insider knows that the key to power in Washington is being at the meeting. It’s an ancient political rule: if you’re not […]
Read MoreKMT crushes DPP in landslide victory in yesterday’s local government elections, and wins Local Poll; China Policy Cited; via duoweinews.com
Read MoreFrom Associated Press via Forbes Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven nations, meeting for the final time this year, singled out China in their closing statement as they warned about excess volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates. The statement was stronger than the group’s communique following its September meeting, […]
Read MoreFrom Seed Magazine: For decades, China was barely a blip on the scientific radar. Communism’s arbitrary appointments, combined with the Cultural Revolution’s disdain for education, crippled Chinese science. But today China is in the midst of a scientific revolution. China’s current economic and political strategy, as named by President Hu Jintao at a recent Central […]
Read MoreFrom the Cato Institute: China’s emergence from centuries of isolation and stagnation is one of the great stories of our time. The world’s most populous nation has rejoined the global economy. As Bush and other visitors to China see firsthand, hundreds of millions of citizens there are beginning to taste the rewards of middle-class life […]
Read MoreFrom IEEE Spectrum: This year, a somewhat startling experiment in digital television transmission has been unfolding in Qingdao, the seaside town in northeastern China best known to outsiders as the place where Tsingtao beer is brewed. The town is completing a government-supported project to convert 600 000 of its downtown households to digital cable television, […]
Read MoreFrom IEEE Spectrum: In 1494, upon Christopher Columbus’s return to Europe, delegates from Spain and Portugal met in the Spanish village of Tordesillas to divide the New World. In accord with an earlier papal decree, Portugal asserted dominion over what we now know as Brazil, while Spain claimed the rest of the Americas. However, they […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via CBC: A Chinese city of 480,000 people has become the latest community to shut down a water plant as river-borne toxins from an industrial accident flowed toward it, an official said Saturday. The shutdown Friday in Jiamusi came as China’s chief environmental regulator resigned, taking the blame for the Nov. 13 […]
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