From the Guardian: Hu Jintao is visiting London as president of a China at its most powerful for 200 years. It now needs resources to keep its factories running, its people sated. Its leaders want the economy to more than triple by 2020. For some, it is the business opportunity of a lifetime, but for […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (read the full text via Peking Duck): Today, the most relevant fault line in China is Tiger Leaping Gorge, a spectacular geological site in Western China along the Yangtze River, and one of the deepest gorges in the world. With its thunderous rushing waters cutting through mountains, it is certainly […]
Read MoreThe following is from a working paper titled “China and the Geopolitics of Oil in the Asian Pacific Region“, by Pablo Bustelo, Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Affairs, Madrid. Thanks to Mr. Bustelo for sending in the link to CDT: China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, […]
Read MoreThree prominent Chinese lawyers and legal scholars have written an open letter to China’s representatives to the Congress of the Law of the World, which recently met in Shanghai, calling for the rule of law to be...
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Chicago itself is home to the largest effort to include Chinese in US public schools. The program here has grown to include 3,000 students in 20 schools, with more schools on a waiting list. Programs have also spread to places like Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, and North Carolina. […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: ¬∑ Huge polluter would be leading green player ¬∑ Critics claim target will not offset climatic damage China, the world’s second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced plans yesterday to more than double its reliance on renewable energy by 2020, which could make it a leading player in the wind, solar and […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times: Chinese scientists are planning super-efficient nuclear reactors that can maximize uranium “burn” and minimize waste in the generation of electricity. [Ed: the word “burn” as used here means the depletion of fission-competent uranium-235 nuclei from a uranium fuel rod consisting mostly of uranium-238; this is a meaning completely different from the […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: …Why does the US hope to promote at least the constituent elements of civil society, including freedom of speech, freedom of association, transparency and accountability? The spread of civil society in East Asia over the past several years has coincided with stability in the security and economic realms. In line with this […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS : It was a curious battle of flags, complete with a British tolerance for the other point of view. President Hu Jintao of China was to be accorded the finest of welcomes to the UK: An official hello from the Queen, a carriage ride up the Mall, flanked by the Household Cavalry, […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: In the old good days, a reporter was often worshipped as “a king without a crown” in China by the general public. But a reporter’s glory days appear to be over, according to a recent survey. Holding a reporting job is considered less desirable, more risky and unstable, the survey has found. […]
Read MoreFrom The McKinsey Quarterly: (Registration required) If China’s economy is to go on growing and its base is to evolve from manufacturing to services, it will require a huge number of qualified university graduates. While university graduates are plentiful there, new MGI research shows that only a small proportion of them have the skills required […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Since China joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, its bilateral trade surplus with the US has doubled from $83bn to more than $160bn last year. In the face of growing protectionist pressures in Washington generated by that imbalance, the new US trade representative, Rob Portman, took the job last April […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China’s burgeoning and at times free-wheeling economy is officially described as “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. One could just as well call it “capitalism with Chinese characteristics”. In the same vein, a recent white paper describes China as having a “socialist democracy”, that is, “democracy with Chinese characteristics”. The precise nature of these […]
Read MoreIn Yunnan Province, a mountain area known as Baoshan was suffering serious erosion from deforestation, from earth.columbia.edu.
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