From Planetark: Greenpeace on Monday called for greater investment in wind turbines in China, the world’s top coal consumer, saying Beijing’s ambitious target for renewable energy means it could emerge the global top wind power by 2020… In February, China’s parliament passed a renewable energy law, which will take effect next January, which sets tariffs […]
Read MoreFrom The Bangkok Post: China has cancelled a planned visit by Japan’s foreign minister amid the “serious situation” in bilateral ties, Beijing said Tuesday following Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s latest visit to a controversial war shrine. “Because China-Japan relations are in a serious situation, we are not in a position to receive this visit,” […]
Read MoreFrom USATODAY.com: The safe return of the second human space mission by Chinese astronauts Monday leaves no doubt that Beijing is committed to this expensive and risky activity. Considering the economic and technological strain it places on China, the natural question to ask is: Why? Despite Western theorizing about space challenges ” a new moon […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: This year alone, Shanghai will complete towers with more space for living and working than there is in all the office buildings in New York City. That is in a city that already has 4,000 skyscrapers, almost double the number in New York. And there are designs to build 1,000 […]
Read MoreLocal man enjoys a game, photo thanks to Shanghai Diaries, via flickr
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times, As the selection of Taiwan’s pandas reaches its final stages in China, humanistic and environmental groups in Taiwan yesterday raised objections about Taiwan’s acceptance of the pandas, questioning whether China’s gesture is really one of goodwill and whether the pandas will improve ecological understanding in Taiwan. Speaking of what China’s gesture might […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Veteran dissident Liu Xiaobo, in an open letter to Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, accuses the US company of betraying its customers and supporting dictatorship by providing information on journalist Shi Tao to Chinese authorities. “Major foreign companies should not be helping the Chinese government to limit freedom of speech on the […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to a nationalist war memorial here Monday drew immediate and fierce criticism from Asian countries, threatening to isolate Japan in the region and worsen its already strained relations with China. Beijing condemned the visit to the memorial, the Yasukuni shrine, as “a serious provocation to […]
Read MoreFrom The Christan Science Monitor: As the war in Iraq began, the Pentagon embedded a Chinese reporter for five days on the USS Kitty Hawk. Some officers thought it odd to invite a reporter from a state that many see as the greatest long-term military threat to the US. But the Pentagon felt a close […]
Read MoreFrom Digital Chosunilbo (Daily News in English About Korea): Ever-vigilant over what it sees as Japan’s distortions of history, China is pushing ahead with some rewriting of its own to suppress mention of a separate Korean identity in its textbooks. The Chinese Foreign Ministry in August last year erased reference to some pre-1948 Korean history […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Shenzhen government officials have been ordered to immediately respond to mass protests in person. By quickly and directly addressing discontented crowds, it is hoped officials can resolve problems calmly and defuse highly charged situations. The task is an important one for local government officials working to make Shenzhen a harmonious society, according […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The half-poetic, half-academic title of the Friday program at the Peter Norton Symphony Space was “Yunnan Revealed: Indigenous Music and Dance From China’s Land of Clouds.” It was full of interesting bits, and everywhere it has been, which is mostly to East Coast colleges, it has been festooned with panels […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: China affirmed its place in one of the world’s most exclusive clubs with the expected conclusion Monday of a second manned space flight. More than four decades after the US and Soviet Union accomplished a similar feat, China can still lay claim to being only the third nation to put […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a Q & A (scroll down to bottom of page) between a reporter for Nanfang Net and a Panyu District government spokesperson about the recall effort in Taishi village, including the recent attack on activist Lu Banglie: Around 8:40pm on September 8, Lu Banglie brought two foreigners into Taishi village in a […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Discontent and protest are on the rise across China. Zhou Yongkang, China’s Minister of Public Security, reported recently that in 2004 there were 74,000 “mass incidents” – demonstrations, riots and other acts of civil disobedience. That’s an average of 200 a day; a worrisome number for China’s leaders, who, at a plenary […]
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