From the International Herald Tribune: The U.S. Treasury secretary, John Snow, has been talking to China, and the finance ministers and central bankers of the world’s 20 leading countries, the G-20, have been meeting near Beijing, with the inevitable fixation on the yuan. But the really deep, fundamental and unsustainable global imbalance is not between […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: It’s goodbye to Mao and hello to Europe’s top architects, all Australia’s iron ore… and half the World’s concrete. With its sights set on Olympic gold, Beijing is being rebuilt round the clock.
Read MoreFrom AP, via MSNBC: Ba Jin, one of China’s most revered communist-era writers who attacked the evils of the pre-revolutionary era in novels, short stories and essays, died Monday in Shanghai, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 100. Best known for his 1931 novel “Family,” the story of a disintegrating feudal household, Ba […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: WOMEN taikonauts, or astronauts, are being trained for space missions, and China also can train foreign astronauts in a space program with Chinese characteristics. China’s Air Force Aeronautics...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s second manned spacecraft Shenzhou VI returned home on Monday after orbiting the Earth for five days as patriotic fervor gripped the nation and the media hailed the mission as a symbol of China’s technological prowess. The two astronauts reported they had landed safely and were in good health after the space capsule […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: On Thursday last week the Guardian carried the following note in its daily corrections column: “In a report headed ‘They beat him until he was lifeless‘: How democracy activist in China’s new frontline was left for dead after a brutal attack by a uniformed mob (front page, October 10) we said that […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: An enormous bald fiberglass nude by Chinese sculptor Xiang Jing sits heavily on a pink bench in a room of her own, staring glumly into space. Smaller, life-size figures lined up in an adjacent space at China Art Seasons gallery seem to be gripped by anxiety. Petulant, grim or wary, […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: As governments in North America and Europe grow increasingly worried about the possibility of a global epidemic of bird flu, one crucial player is China. Yet for now, much of what the country is doing to manage a possible epidemic is a mystery. China is not only the world’s most […]
Read MoreFrom theage.com.au: China has asked the Federal Government if it can conduct its own uranium exploration and mining operations in Australia. Confidential diplomatic cables obtained by The Age show the Chinese told Australian officials of their interest in “uranium mining and exploration in Australia” at a February meeting in Beijing. At the meeting, the deputy […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Bush administration on Sunday promoted a sweeping plan to overhaul China’s financial markets and open the country to foreign banks, investment firms and insurance companies. Chinese officials offered virtually no public reaction on the U.S. agenda. In a brief news conference at the end of a meeting of finance […]
Read MoreFrom The CBC News Viewpoint program: There has been extensive reporting by the overseas media outlets on “elite” politics, speculating much about an ongoing power struggle and personnel changes during the plenary session. Their overemphasis on the top leadership is at the expense of a comprehensive analysis of Chinese politics, or the country’s economy and […]
Read More“I want to go to school!” – a rural girl sitting outside of a classroom; via boxun.com.
Read MoreDowntown Hong Kong billboards, thanks to Li Huai for the photo
Read MoreFrom China Labour Bulletin picture from Dajiyuan A crackdown carried out by local police on 7 October against protesting workers from the Chongqing Steel Plant resulted in the death of two women protestors, 24 workers being injured, and the detention of three of the workers’ leaders, according to a report by Radio Free Asia. The […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Focus: The third annual head-of-state summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Moscow on May 20, 2003, may be considered a minor water-shed in the life of the organization, made up of Russia, China, and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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