From Reuters: China is to blacklist cities that fail to reach national air quality standards and penalise them by warning off investors, state media quoted environment officials as saying on Monday. The State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) will also control construction projects that could worsen air pollution in the worst-offending cities. More on this topic, […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: It is bad enough when newspaper editorials, Western human rights groups and ordinary customers condemn your company for bowing to the Chinese dictatorship and contributing to oppression. But when the outrage begins rising, at great personal risk, from dissident voices trapped inside that dictatorship, well, that has to hurt. Or […]
Read MoreA bust of Mao Zedong in a gift shop at Yanan, Shaanxi Province, thanks to Howard W. French for the photo.
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: If Chairman Mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in Sichuan Province named Jung Chang and “mie jiuzu”- killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree. But instead that girl grew up, moved to Britain and has now written a biography […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Channelnewsasia.com: China uncovered 240 cases of corruption in its state-owned commercial banks in the first half of the year, with losses totalling 1.6 billion yuan (198 million dollars). The Xinhua news agency, citing a State Banking Regulatory Commission official, said the money stolen from commercial banks from January to June amounted to […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China’s gross domestic product growth figures, released late last week, have revived longstanding scepticism about Chinese official statistics and their accuracy as a gauge of activity in the world’s fastest growing economy. The GDP figures recorded growth from July to September at 9.4 per cent, almost exactly on par with the […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Taipei Times: Former president Lee Teng-hui (ÊùéÁôªËºù) on Friday accused China of running a “slave state” that uses the false promise of its booming economy to dupe the free world into appeasing its tyranny. In an explosive speech in Los Angeles on the last leg of a 13-day US tour that has […]
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph Online: Two new Internet bans may offer insight into the Chinese government’s biggest fears. One bars Internet news services from inciting “illegal” assemblies, marches and demonstrations; the other prohibits activities on behalf of “illegal” civil groups. Together, they evince the communist regime’s concerns over growing civil unrest – and particularly technology’s role […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Regional Powerhouse: The Greater Pearl River Delta and the Rise of China by Michael J. Enright, Edith E Scott and Ka-mun Chang. As China’s role in the global economy expands, books and articles about Middle Kingdom rivals are flying off the assembly line as fast as toys and tank tops for […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: The Government is again promising to address the vast fiscal gap that prevents education for all. A month ago, farmer Xie Guangfu paused outside his front door at midnight, 18 hours into his usual 21-hour working day, and died with a heavy load of wheat on his shoulder. Xie’s family was the […]
Read MoreFrom Kashar News: Google deleted the words “a province of the People’s Republic of China” from its Taiwan map after complaints from pro-independence groups on the island. A Chinese official in the US told state media he was disappointed at the move. Taiwan has a tense relationship with Beijing. Many Taiwanese see the island as […]
Read MoreDaily scene in a chicken farm in Shanghai, via duowei.com.
Read MoreFrom The Newsweek: It may be the epicenter of an epidemic, and its health-care system is in tatters. That’s a recipe for disaster. Nobody in Zhang Rong’s village in coastal China knows much about the danger of a bird-flu pandemic. The 37-year-old farmer has enough to worry about. A nearby business park wants to take […]
Read MoreRed lanterns, thanks to camereye for the photo
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (available only to Times Select subscribers): And you thought the Cultural Revolution was over. Sorry, it’s just beginning, only China’s new Cultural Revolution will be driven this time from the bottom up – by podcasters with Apple’s little white iPods or competing players, not from the top down by Maoists […]
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