From the Guardian: To engage with China requires Japan to come to terms with its past, and Koizumi’s visits to the shrine represent a symbolic refusal to do so. Japan is stuck in its past, and its past now threatens to define its future and that of east Asia. Even during the postwar period, when […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: The question at hand is simple and profound: will China rise peacefully? My answer is no. If China continues its impressive economic growth over the next few decades, the US and China are likely to engage in an intense security competition with considerable potential for war. Most of China’s neighbours, to include […]
Read MoreWorkers disinfect a road in Heishan, in China’s northeast Liaoning province, via VOA.
Read MoreFrom Bangkok Post: China has officially confirmed its first human death from bird flu, a 24-year-old farmer from the eastern province of Anhui. The woman became sick after an outbreak of bird flu among poultry in her village in Zongyang county and died November 10, the Health Ministry said, according to a report Thursday by […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: A typical Chinese Internet user is a young male who prefers instant messaging to e-mail, rarely makes online purchases and favors news, music and games sites, according to a new study. The only major public opinion research tracking Internet use in China, the survey was conducted in five […]
Read MoreFrom CRI, via China Daily: “Blogger Matters” focuses on one Chinese blogger per feature, putting his/her posts in English for you and aiming to give you a heads up on what’s going on in the Chinese blog-sphere. Like many other literary men, Leizi (see sidenote 1) likes to read Sanlian Life Week (see sidenote 2). […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Western newspapers in ChinaBeijing has halted plans to allow foreign newspapers to print in China because of concerns raised by recent “colour revolutions” against authoritarian governments in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, according to a senior media regulator. Shi Zongyuan, head of the General Administration of Press and Publication, said the role […]
Read MoreNational Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation interviews Rob Gifford: For six years Rob Gifford covered China for NPR News. From Beijing to the North Korean border to the Muslim Northwest, Gifford reported on stories of people living through an extraordinary economic and cultural transformation. The audio link will be available later today. Listen also […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s current leaders played a prominent role in the secrecy-shrouded 1990 burial of reformist Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang, whose death in 1989 sparked the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests. Video footage obtained by Reuters of the events 15 years ago show a grim-looking Wen Jiabao, then 48 and now China’s premier, wearing a cream […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe: As President Bush readies his chopsticks to dine with President Hu Jintao tomorrow, he might ponder whether the rise of China means the eclipse of the United States. Some Americans see China pushing us aside. Some even grasp at China’s rise as a stick to beat the Bush administration. Any rise […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China and Japan – the two giants of East Asia – are competing for energy resources around the globe. Their rivalry in the East China Sea, Russia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia has been well documented. Yet little has been written in Washington about the impact of Sino-Japanese rivalry in Africa. With […]
Read MorePhoto Series: Stone City, Yunnan Province, from Pack A Kilo More blog.
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Los Angeles Times: In a speech evoking bodybuilding, civil rights icon Rosa Parks and the power of the individual, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged a university audience in China to emerge from the constraints of their political system and attain success in the global world. “America is a nation that believes […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Skype, the internet telephony company owned by eBay, is in talks with Chinese state-owned operators that it is optimistic will clear the way for the launch of its computer-to-telephone call service in the world’s most populous telecoms market. Niklas Zennstr√∂m, Skype chief executive, waved aside suggestions that Verso Technologies, a US […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China reported its first confirmed cases of people falling ill with bird flu Wednesday, saying the disease had spread from infected fowl to human beings in at least two areas. The announcement, from the Agriculture Ministry via the official New China News Agency, marked a recognition of the failure to prevent […]
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