From the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: In fact, China is effectively two economies. It is a manufacturing Goliath, a major engine for worldwide economic growth that has doubled its foreign trade in just three years. But roughly 500 million of the 1.3 billion Chinese live on less than $2 a day […]
Read MoreFrom the Observer: Beijing Military Hospital has a 6am wake-up call; Qing is the first to respond. He was brought to the hospital by his parents after he tried to stab one of his classmates. The 17-year-old has been diagnosed as suffering from a new disease emerging in a time of China’s prosperity. Like the […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The UN rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, has arrived in China for a fact-finding mission to examine allegations of official maltreatment. It is the first time a UN rapporteur on torture will be allowed to visit China’s prisons and detention centres. It has taken years of negotiations for Beijing to agree to […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Siemens AG‘s contract to supply China 60 locomotives as fast as France’s TGV trains may herald billions of dollars of orders for global engineering companies, economists including China Securities Research Co.’s Hu Yanni said. Siemens, Germany’s largest engineering company, will make three trains that run at top speeds of 300 kilometers (186 miles) […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See said Monday that supporting the Vatican’s push for greater religious freedom in China was a priority. Ambassador Francis Rooney issued a statement a day after President Bush told Chinese leaders in Beijing to expand religious, political and social liberties. Bush also […]
Read MoreTranslated by EastSouthWestNorth: I have treated the blog as an extension of my work. I blog about the things that I cannot usually publish in the printed media. The reason that I get nervous writing for the printed media is that another person who does not and cannot fully understand you has the right to […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth: According to a document attributed to the Henan province propaganda department, the following are the regulations on reporting this subject. [Please note that I cannot attest to the authenticity of the document which has been zipping around websites, forums and email. Whoever was the original source is ‘guilty’ of either ‘leaking states secrets’ […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Boston.com: President George W. Bush’s visit to Beijing, which ended on Monday, had the trappings of a whistle-stop campaign appearance intended to sell his message that the United States wants China to free up its politics and economy before the two countries can move closer. But the closely scripted encounter between Bush […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: When President Bush was flying toward Asia a week ago, his national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, predicted to reporters in the back of the plane that the four-nation trip would yield no “headline breakthroughs.” He turned out to be right. As Bush wrapped up his stay in Beijing on Sunday […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Ôºàin ChineseÔºâ: “Have your chickens been vaccinated? Please show your vaccination record.” This is the deputy governor Wang Shousen‘s first question when he visited each farmer’s house during the Provincial Avian Flu Emergency Response Drill in Jingyang Ê≥æÈò≥Âéø county yesterday. What he did not expect was, random searches of three poultry farmers […]
Read MoreFrom the Asia Times: The recent state visits by President Hu Jintao to the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain are the latest steps in a continuing effort by the Chinese government and its European counterparts to strengthen their ties, but they also demonstrate some of the contradictions China faces in dealing with Europe and its […]
Read MoreA Beijing resident in his 70s “defending rights” by blocking construction for seven hours; from the thebeijingnews.com, via boxun.com.
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, via ABC News: In prisons across China, inmates languish for committing “political crime” – anything from starting an illegal newspaper, trade union, or unofficial religious church, or speaking a democracy slogan in public. China is not a liberal state with tolerant laws, as its leaders agree. President Bush, showing solidarity […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: China on Friday confirmed two new outbreaks of bird flu in poultry, bringing to 15 the number of cases reported nationwide since Oct. 19. The latest outbreaks were hundreds of miles apart _ in the northern province of Shanxi and the far northwestern region of Xinjiang, the government’s Xinhua News Agency […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: It is said that the number of demonstrations against government mismanagement and corruption in China is rising. Since late last year, the media in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe, Japan, and the United States has frequently reported protests erupting at city offices and other public sites across the country. People regularly barge into […]
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