From Xinhua: When the construction of some 30 big projects were suspended at a mandate from the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in December 2004, China was taking the most notable move in enforcing environmental laws. Their construction was put to a halt for the projects, most of them hydro- or thermal power plants, failed […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: This village on the edge of the Gobi desert entered the 21st century much as it had the previous one, with yellow sand blanketing the mountains and poor farmers sharing their mud huts with cows, donkeys and pigs. No homes had running water. No shops sold clothes, just bundles of […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor : A Chinese communist party meeting this Saturday will likely signal that President Hu Jintao has consolidated his position as leader of Asia’s largest power – a move that more formally ushers in the “Hu era” in China, a period that by party blueprint would last roughly until 2012. The […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has formally arrested a lawyer who helped farmers in the southern province of Guangdong try to eject their village chief after a suspicious land deal, U.S.-based Radio Free Asia said. Guo Feixiong was detained about three weeks ago following clashes between police and residents of Taishi village, in the district of Panyu. […]
Read MoreFrom GeoTimes: China is changing. The past several decades have seen immense booms in the country’s demand for energy, steel, water and other natural resources that were already in scarce supply, in a country that is almost the size of the United States but has more than four times the population. Worries over the giant […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune: Above a shuttered fertilizer store in this eastern China town, men and women are locked up because their relatives will not agree to undergo government-ordered sterilization or abortion, according to current and former detainees. Such detentions are against the law in China, where peasants and activists are trying to cast new […]
Read MoreESWN has translated an essay “Taishi Village, My Neighbor” by Ai Xiaoming, which was “originally published in edited form in the Freezing Point weekly supplement in the Chinese Youth Daily, and then published in full at the Yannan Forum (note: the original has been deleted, but a copy is preserved here)”: The first time that […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Among Chinese Supreme Court justices, Jiang Zhipei stands out as an extrovert. ¬† Unlike his more secretive colleagues, he takes guests on tours of the heavily guarded Supreme Court building, talks in eager stretches that are light on political slogans, lectures frequently and runs a Web site devoted to his […]
Read MoreFrom Independent: The start of the Chinese Year of the Dog is just four months away, but in the southern city of Guangzhou thousands of frightened dog owners and their pets are lying doggo after local authorities intensified a crackdown on unregistered animals. Unlicensed dogs are being rounded up by the police and, in the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s Communist Party gathers behind closed doors this weekend for an annual meeting that will chart a course for the fast-growing economy and may see party chief Hu Jintao further consolidate his power. The party plenum opening on Saturday will be the first at which Hu holds all top party, military and state […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Khaleej Times: A blind social activist who blew the whistle on an east China county, which forced villagers to undergo sterilisations and detained those who refused, has been badly beaten, sources said on Wednesday. Chen Guangcheng, 34, has been under house arrest since mid-August for speaking out against violations of family planning […]
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Read MoreFrom AFP, via Taipei Times Hong Kong activists have defied the law by airing a pro-democracy unlicensed broadcast in a bid to counter what they see as the loss of media freedom in the Chinese territory. Citizens’ Radio, run by a group of 10 activists, broadcast a trial program on Monday evening on the same […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune Treasury Secretary John Snow and the Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, the two most senior U.S. economic officials, may prove decisive for economic relations between the two countries. The talks in Beijing are expected to determine whether the Bush administration brands China a currency manipulator in a crucial report expected to […]
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