From Bloomberg: Of all the mistakes the U.S. is making in dealing with China’s rise, the most obvious is this: thinking we’ve seen this before. Well, we haven’t. Never before has such an underdeveloped economy with such a huge population and history of innovation muscled its way onto the world stage so fast. To say […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: As much as Chinese leaders hope that a leap of nationalistic pride for completing the space mission would help assuage popular discontent over social injustice and corruption, they feel there is a need to justify the expenditure. Despite an economy that is expected to grow 9.2% this year, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, touring this village in the Sichuan province to promote “financial modernization,” urged China on Thursday to take lessons from the United States on how to spend more, borrow more and save less. Mr. Snow argued that China’s consumers and entrepreneurs are badly in need of […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Sometimes a single person’s life can tell you more about a country’s experience than a shelf full of history books. Among Chinese people of a certain age, such lives, rich in struggle, in suffering and in the consequences of man’s folly and often enough in a measure of redemption, come […]
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Read MoreFrom Xinhua: BEIJING, Oct. 14 — 2006 is set to be celebrated as China-Italy year, and Italy’s Ambassador to China, Gabriele Menegatti, unveiled the major highlights of the year’s program at a press conference Thursday in Beijing. The curtain will rise on China-Italy year on January 20th, 2006, with an exhibition of Renaissance Art at […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: One of the most radical opponents of Chinese Communist rule, who once planned to explode a hot air balloon above Tiananmen Square scattering pro-democracy leaflets, has been jailed for life on terrorism charges. The People’s Intermediate Court in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei, also convicted Peng Ming of kidnapping and […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaTechNews.com: A new Chinese blog survey was published this week in Beijing by Sohu.com (SOHU) and Dr. Jin Jianbin from Tsinghua University. The survey analyzes major aspects of Chinese blog services, ranging from blog service providers to the features used most by blog writers and readers. Unfortunately for advertisers, the report shows that 70% […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via TODAYonline: China has arrested 101 criminal suspects since police started to crack down on Internet “obscenity” in August. The suspects included people who used the Internet to set up illegal chatrooms that recruit others to participate in pornographic movies, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the public security ministry. “This behavior has […]
Read MoreFrom Infoworld: Long inaccessible from within China without the use of a proxy server, Google’s (Profile, Products, Articles) free Web log service, Blogger, can now be accessed directly by Internet users in Beijing. In addition, Chinese Internet users can now access cached Web pages on Google’s search engine. Chinese access to Blogger was apparently blocked […]
Read MoreFrom The EastSouthWestNorth blog: (MediaChina.net) [quick translation] On May 14, in Lishui City Liandu district, government officials were doing survey measurements on apartment land use by residents of Lihua Village. During that time, certain villagers who wanted the government to give more land to their residences interfered with the surveying work, and some even employed […]
Read MoreFrom The EastSouthWestNorth blog: (Nanfang Weekend) Lu Banglie: The Difficult Road To “Govern” For A Village Official. October 8, 2004. [translation] “How shall I proceed?” In late August, 33-year-old Lu Banglie wrote to the outside world. Four months ago, Lu was elected as the new director of Baoyuesi village, Zhijiang City, Hubei Province and he […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via MSNBC: China’s reach into space, joining an elite club of nations setting their exploratory sights beyond Earth, is posing a serious challenge to the United States that could have military implications, analysts said. China on Wednesday successfully launched its second manned space mission, albeit aboard a ship based on an old Soviet […]
Read MoreFrom Harper’s Magazine: From essays and testimonials on tobacco-information websites run by the Chinese government. The state monopoly on cigarettes in China provides 10 percent of government revenue; annual sales amount to 1.8 trillion cigarettes, or approximately one third of the total sold worldwide. Translated from the Chinese by Mara Hvistendahl. Originally from Harper’s Magazine, […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via the International Herald Tribune: The world’s largest standing army is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to bring back Chinese art treasures such as those now in the homes of collectors including Ronald Lauder, chairman of Estee Lauder International; Tsui Tsin-tong, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong manufacturing and property company CNT […]
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