From Usa Today, via Yahoo!news: Two particularly brazen cases over the past few months have exposed the way local strongmen are using hired thugs to smother grass-roots democracy and prevent ordinary Chinese people from asserting their rights. In Taishi, a prosperous village of 2,000 in Guangdong province across the border from Hong Kong, citizens attempted […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Daily News: Now could be the time for China to throw its weight around for the good of the world and come out an ecological hero of epic proportions. This is far from impossible. The necessary elements are right there. The Chinese giant could clean up its image, get the best […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: The major Chinese city of Harbin is facing four days without water because of an unexpected mains stoppage. The announcement that water supplies would be cut off from Tuesday has sparked panic-buying of bottled water and other drinks at local supermarkets. There is confusion over why the authorities are cutting off the […]
Read MoreFrom Anti’s English Blog – AEB: Two recent incidents drew attention from all walks of life: medical reform, which turned out to be a failure, and Gu Chujun being taken into custody for economic problems. One year...
Read MoreFrom Anti’s English Blog – AEB: translated by Hector Lee , Polished by Grant. Two recent incidents drew attention from all walks of life: medical reform, which turned out to be a failure, and Gu Chujun being taken...
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Independent (Bangladesh): Slowly but surely, China is executing a shift in tax and spending policies to help meet its goal of rebalancing growth from investment to consumption. Worried by a widening rich-poor gap that could undermine stability, Beijing has already stepped up spending on social security and scrapped agricultural taxes. It […]
Read MoreFrom a Washington Post editorial: President Bush spoke up yesterday for democracy in Mongolia, a poor, windswept nation of 2.4 million people that never before had been visited by a U.S. president. Wedged between communist China and authoritarian Russia, Mongolia’s democrats certainly could use the boost they received from Mr. Bush. But it’s striking that […]
Read MoreFrom The Yomiuri Shimbun: Nearly 10 years have passed since the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996. When China had to give up pressuring Taiwan–all but helpless against two aircraft carrier battle groups deployed by the United...
Read MoreDanxia landscape, Xinning, Hunan province; via duoweinews.com.
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: On September 21, the US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick delivered a speech, entitled “Whither China: From Membership to Responsibility,” at the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York. I think highly of this speech for three reasons. First, it clearly demonstrates that President George W. Bush is in […]
Read MoreFrom OhmyNews: While Presidents George W. Bush of the U.S and Hu Jintao of China met in Beijing yesterday Nov. 20, to discuss issues of trade, the expansion of personal freedoms and protection of intellectual property rights, the one-day meeting was more about symbolism than substance. The meeting occurred after a crackdown of Chinese dissidents […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: While the strategic significance of Sino-US relations has been growing from strength to strength, China and the United States have shouldered constantly increasing international responsibilities. With respect to solidifying the important consensus reached by Chinese and US leaders I believe efforts to enhance bilateral relations should concentrate on three aspects: […]
Read MoreFrom The Forbes.com: U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing tomorrow. Bush has faced increasing domestic political pressure to take a harder line on China. The president will attempt to respond to this implicit call for “containment,” without creating a serious confrontation with Beijing, by exhorting China to assume […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Beijing has good reasons to believe that Washington is a city of counter- revolutionaries, with troublemakers running amok. Washington, a long-time prime destination for those with “anti-China” sentiment, has been unusually busy in recent weeks. A number of high-profile “enemies of China” have taken turns coming to town to bad-mouth China. Taiwan’s […]
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