From the Financial Times: The focus on China has increased after Beijing reported this week its first human cases of bird flu. There are currently two confirmed cases – a young boy in Hunan province and a woman in Anhui province who has died – as well as another suspected case, the boy’s sister. She […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Just days before his visit to China this weekend, US President George W. Bush has called on Beijing to pursue democratic reforms and open up the country. There’s just one problem: throughout Asia, Bush has a massive credibility gap when it comes to human rights and freedom.
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China’s senior leadership on Friday honored the reformist Communist Party chief whose death sparked the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, breaking more than a decade of official silence on his legacy. But notably absent from the politically sensitive ceremony was the man who approved it, President Hu Jintao. The memorial for the […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Thirty years ago, George W. Bush was a business student on vacation in Beijing. His father was the U.S. envoy there, forging ties to a nation still isolated from the West, and the younger Bush decided to see the city from behind the handlebars of a bicycle. “I can remember […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: A cancer therapy using a virus that attacks tumor cells but not healthy ones has been approved in China, the first regulatory approval for this type of treatment anywhere in the world, according to the company that developed the treatment. The drug is essentially a copy of one developed and […]
Read MoreBush lands in China, Taiwan in mind. (Aerial shot of Taiwan, thanks to Howard W. French for the photo.)
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: When President Bush arrives in Beijing on Saturday, he is expected to press China to reduce its large and growing trade surplus with the United States, on track to hit a record $200 billion this year. But for a long list of reasons, American products are struggling these days in […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: The Central Government Liaison Office, which has been assisting Chief Executive Donald Tsang rally the two- thirds support his political reforms need to pass in the Legislative Council, is now desperately trying to stop three members of the pro-Beijing faction from crossing the floor, according to an informed source. The 35-member pro-Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The head of the Gansu Journalists Association has been found stabbed to death in his apartment in Lanzhou, it was reported yesterday. Shi Xingguang was found dead on Wednesday morning after a colleague noticed his absence from work and went to his apartment, the Guangzhou-based Southern […]
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree: There are a couple of stories in this week’s Beijing Review that deal with the care of elderly people in China. The first thing that struck me was the honest engagement with the problem: Beijing Review is a government-funded magazine designed to get the Party’s view out into the world. But […]
Read MoreFrom The Business Week: The two nations’ trade accord is a landmark for China, whose thirst for raw materials is fueling the boom in Latin economies. China signed its first-ever free trade agreement with a non-Asian country on Nov. 18, choosing Chile, a nation that it dwarfs in geographical size, population, and economy. The pact […]
Read MoreFrom Independent Online: The Prince of Wales has taken the highly unusual step of suing The Mail on Sunday over the publication of extracts from his private journals. It is standard procedure for members of the royal family to rein back from legal action for fear of courting extra publicity. But the revelations, including allegations […]
Read MoreFrom The Star: Bank of Taiwan will acquire Central Trust of China to create the island’s largest financial group, under a government plan to make lenders more competitive. The second merger of state-owned banks this month would form a group that controlled 11.6% of the market, the finance ministry said in a statement yesterday. Taipei-based […]
Read MoreFrom The American Enterprise: To many of his detractors, President George W. Bush represents the quintessential ugly American”unrefined, uncurious, and unafraid to use American power. Interestingly, when he visits China this weekend, he will actually encounter someone far uglier than he: the modern Chinese. Chinese leaders will no doubt emphasize to Bush the peaceful nature […]
Read MoreFrom the Age: When the local government wreckers came and tore open the front wall of his studio here this week, sculptor Liu Bo expressed his rage in the way he knew best ” through art. Standing in the wreckage in plastic overalls, Liu turned himself into installation art.
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