From theage.com.au: The emergence of China (and India) as significant influence in the world economy and in world markets for tradeable goods and services, commodities, labour and financial assets is, arguably, the most significant change in global macro-economics since at least the breakdown of the Bretton Woods currency system in the early 1970s. China is […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Economic inequality and social protests in China have become a frequent topic in the Western press. The startling figure of 74,000 protests across China in 2004, up from 58,000 the previous year, has popped up in many newspapers, as has China’s most recent Gini coefficient of 0.45, suggesting that economic inequality in […]
Read MoreFrom CBC News: China reported a fresh outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu on Wednesday amid new reports of the avian illness in Russia, Romania and Macedonia. China’s state news agency, Xinhua, reported Wednesday that 2,600 birds died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country’s northern region. Xinhua said the […]
Read MoreFrom csmonitor.com: It is hard to single out the most chilling aspect of Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Changand Jon Halliday. To dive into this hefty new biography of China’s “great Helmsman” is to feel alternately shocked, angry, and, finally, just plain sick at heart. But the level of detail offered by this exhaustively […]
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Read MoreFrom the Independent: Western politicians queue up to sing its praises. Economists regard it with awe and delight. Other countries are desperate to imitate it. Yet there is another side to China’s exploding, double-digit-growth miracle economy – it is turning into one of the greatest environmental threats the earth has ever faced. See also “Beijingers […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Boston Globe: China’s communist leaders have issued an economic plan that calls for developing the poor countryside in an effort to narrow the growing and politically explosive gap between rich and poor, state media said Wednesday. The five-year plan was approved at an annual leadership meeting that ended last week but […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: In an unusual labor dispute, the arbitration committee of Pingdingshan in central China’s Henan province ruled Monday against Zhou Xianghua, who accused her employer – the Pingdingshan Branch of China Construction Bank (CCB)- of sexual discrimination for ordering her to retire at 55. The Committee said in its written ruling that Zhou had […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: At the Media Forum of Tianya Club, the following post appeared: [translation] Today, I walked by a news kiosk and glanced at Nanfang Weekend. My attention was suddenly attracted to it … Everybody knows that yesterday was the big day for Shenzhou IV. Therefore, all the major media will carry the obvious […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online: BA JIN, one of China’s most acclaimed novelists best known for his early works that exposed the evils of feudal family life, has died in Shanghai after a battle with cancer and Parkinson’s disease. He was 100. His life spanned the end of the last imperial dynasty, warlords, Nationalists, war, the communist […]
Read MoreFrom The North Korea Times: China will outline its plans to institute political democracy in an official white paper to be released Wednesday, state media reported Tuesday. The white paper, titled Building of Political Democracy in China, will give a detailed account of the inception, development, contents and principles of the country’s political democracy, an […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary, on Tuesday reiterated concerns about the rapid expansion in China’s military and a lack of transparency in its defence budget. “It is interesting that other countries wonder why they are increasing their defence effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it. That is […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Chinese logging companies are still plundering vast swathes of forests in northern Burma in collusion with local ethnic militias, despite Beijing’s past commitments to crack down on illegal logging, an environmental group said. Global Witness, a UK-based agency that links natural resource exploitation with conflict situations, said around 95 per cent […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABCNews.com: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz prodded China on Tuesday to give more power to the people for the sake of sustaining strong economic growth. Wolfowitz, a staunch conservative who served as deputy U.S. secretary of defense before joining the bank, said China had made progress in giving a voice to ordinary […]
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