From The Washington Post: The Communist Party vowed Friday to spread the benefits of economic growth more fairly among all levels of Chinese society, seeking particularly to close the wide income gap between farmers and city dwellers. The pledge, issued by the Politburo, the country’s top policymaking body, was seen in part as a response […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In an artistic “war room” in the Kennedy Center, anxious staff members were leafing through signs directing artists to “stage right” and elsewhere in Chinese. Down the hall, hundreds of packages of instant noodles lined the walls of a rehearsal space, quick comfort food for performers who don’t eat granola […]
Read MoreThe Asian Wall Street Journal published my commentary on the recent Internet Regulations: Almost overnight, the Internet has emerged as the single most important forum the Chinese people have to criticize government policies and...
Read MoreFrom AP, via Hindu: A ceremony celebrating China’s National Day in Hong Kong was marred on Saturday when activists protesting the Beijing government attempted to storm into the venue. About 20 people, led by maverick lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung, were protesting Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 on the fringes of the ceremony. They also demanded […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: China has a dance tradition that reaches back 5,000 years. Yet classical ballet arrived in China just over a century ago. So, when the Beijing-based National Ballet of China returns to the Kennedy Center on Tuesday (see cover story, Page 33), one installment in the month-long Festival of China, audiences will […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Authorities in Henan banned a newspaper from publishing for a month after reporting on a mine accident cover-up, in which journalists allegedly accepted money from mine operators to keep quiet. A staff member at the Henan Business News yesterday confirmed that the paper was banned from […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Despite talk of trade wars and military confrontation, polls show that more Americans have a favorable view of the Chinese than five or 10 years ago. Regrettably, this has yet to translate into any large-scale effort to engage anything besides Chinese factories. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D) of Connecticut and Sen. […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via chicagotribune.com: Thousands of years ago, Chinese emperors held ceremonial concerts with elaborately crafted musical instruments to equate musical harmony with good government. But some philosophers worried about too much harmony, causing lewdness and depravity, if men and women played in an orchestra together. An exhibit that opens Saturday at the Freer […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: For much of the past decade Shanghai has been placed on a pedestal at home and lionised around the world as a glamorous model for developing country cities. Within China, however, Shanghai is quietly losing its lustre as its economic drivers run out of steam and new leaders in Beijing look […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese school authorities have overcharged students by millions of dollars and doctors have taken millions of yuan in bribes, a newspaper said on Friday, a day after a report revealed rampant graft throughout government. Teachers and doctors were once the most venerated people in China, but public complaints over exorbitant school and healthcare […]
Read MoreFrom Kyodo News, via Japan Today: Chinese police detained about 600 anti-government petitioners in a slum-like Beijing neighborhood ahead of the weeklong National Day holiday that begins Saturday, sources in Beijing said Friday. From Tuesday through Thursday, police from Beijing, northeastern China and elsewhere removed the petitioners from south Beijing low-rent hostels and a nearby […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via SINA English: Compared with public hearings and opinion solicitation concerning law making in some Chinese cities, north China’s Tianjin has taken much bolder action by entrusting a local attorney association to draft a local law. The association is supposed to draft a local law entitled “Measures on Public Hearings of the Tianjin […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: China urged local security agencies yesterday to “prepare for danger” and remain vigilant against terrorists in the predominantly Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. The call by Luo Gan, the top security official on the governing Politburo Standing Committee, came just ahead of the 50th anniversary tomorrow of the Communist control over […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via Xinhua: In its latest roadmap for reforms in the next three years, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate expressed an intention to make local people’s procuratorates financially independent of their equivalent-level governments. It has been proposed that the expenses of local procuratorates be guaranteed by State finances, and included in central and provincial […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Star Online: China has banned local courts from helping officials enforce controversial social policies such as strict family planning and demolition of property for redevelopment, state media said on Thursday. The move is part of efforts to give more independence to a judiciary, which human rights groups say is more inclined […]
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