On KQED’s Forum program, host Michael Krasny interviews author Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, co-authors of “Mao: The Unknown Story.” You can listen live to the program on the KQED site. The audio archive should be available on the site later today.
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in London on Tuesday at the start of a visit to the UK, Germany and Spain, as part of an initiative by China to try to establish itself as a diplomatic as well as an economic player on the world stage. Mr Hu has been a great […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: One day recently, while this writer was sitting in a Beijing hotel lobby, waiting for a business lunch, a nicely dressed, glasses-wearing young Chinese man pleasantly tried to start a conversation. After an exchange of business cards, he turned out to be – you guessed it – an insurance man. Scenes […]
Read MoreFrom the Space Review: On November 4 a Reuters story reported that “state media” in China had quoted a “leading scientist” saying that China planned on sending a man to the Moon by 2017, a year before...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China said Monday to lift its 30 million people who lack access to electricity out of the situation through developing renewable energies, especially solar energy. Zhang Guobao, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission said that a lighting project featuring the use of solar cells, has already helped three million people […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: He was herding goats high up the creases of sacred Mount Kawagebo when the morning light seemed right, recalled Ananzhu, an ethnic Tibetan from an isolated village of southern China. So he took out his...
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: In the nearly four years since it joined the World Trade Organization,China has become the world’s dominant manufacturer of goods ranging from T-shirts to mobile phones. Its trade with the rest of the world more than doubled from $509.8 billion in 2001 to $1.2 trillion in 2004. Sometimes, as in this […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: A tentative accord between the United States and China over a cap on clothing exports may ease a source of trade tension and smooth relations before President George W. Bush visits Beijing, economists have said. Trade negotiators have agreed to raise the allowable growth rate in U.S. imports of Chinese pants, […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Judicial authorities in Beijing have shut down the law firm of a prominent civil rights lawyer after he refused to withdraw an open letter urging President Hu Jintao to respect freedom of religion and stop persecuting members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. Gao Zhisheng, among the most daring of […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, viaYahoo! News: The number of mobile phone subscribers in China reached 376 million at the end of September, state media in Beijing have revealed. At the end of 2004 there were 25.7 mobile phones for every 100 Chinese, which exceeded the world’s average figure, statistics released at the 2005 China Mobile Telecommunications Terminal […]
Read MoreFrom Jane’s Report: The decision by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to refer Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council has thrown into sharp focus relations between Iran and Russia. Moscow may soon have to choose whether to back Iran or align itself with the US and the European Union (EU) in reining […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth: Patriotism is definitely a term that can arouse people; it is a highly inflammatory term. Hitler used the term to start a world war, so we can imagine how powerful it is. For someone to elevate the words or deeds of certain individuals to the level of nation and people is a dangerous […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The rise of a great power is never smooth or painless and China’s is no exception, as its economic strength and strategic ambition generate fear and uncertainty among its neighbors, along with profit and opportunity. Already the world’s third-ranked trading nation behind the United States and Germany, China is poised […]
Read MoreStreet scene in a town called Zhangpan, Henan province. Photo by Yip-Bannicq Group.
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China said Sunday that the possibility of human infection of bird flu in the three reported pneumonia cases in Hunan Province, including one death, could not be ruled out, a Ministry of Health spokesman said. The spokesman said the ministry had invited the World Health Organization experts to make a joint investigation […]
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