From BBC news, via CSR Asia: The gap between rich and poor in China has reached dangerous levels and may create social unrest, state paper Study Times has reported. Growing wealth in cities like Shanghai has not been shared by rural areas. The Ministry of Labour and Social Security says income disparity is at “yellow […]
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: China’s godfather of electric rock Cui Jian assaulted Beijing late Saturday with his loud and angry wall of sound in his first officially sanctioned concert in the capital in 12 years. Some 10,000 fans gathered in the Capital Gymnasium to hear the 44 year-old perform the latest versions of his songs, many […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick delivered a refreshingly candid speech in New York last Wednesday at a gala dinner of the National Committee on US-China Relations. I was expecting the usual self- deluding talk, with nonsense like “US- China relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: China’s second manned space mission will blast off on 13 October at the earliest, Chinese news sources claim. The Shenzhou-6 spacecraft will launch from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Base, in the Gobi desert of northern China. Reports say the Chinese will send two astronauts into space for a mission lasting about five days. […]
Read MoreFrom the Miami Herald: From the Chinese-made Virgin of Guadalupe statues hawked in Mexico City to the bulk carriers loaded with South American copper steaming toward the Chinese port of Quingdao, the ties that bind Latin economies to the rest of the world no longer run just north-south. China’s burgeoning appetite for raw materials and […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian The former senior Chinese diplomat Xiong Xiang-hui, who has died aged 86, played a vital undercover role during the final phase of the communist revolution, after the second world war, which may have tipped the balance in Mao Zedong‘s favour. Twenty or so years later, he was a key figure in the […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: What began as an ice-breaking trip to the mainland by Hong Kong’s lawmakers turned ice cold Sunday when a war of words erupted between pro- democracy lawmakers and Guangdong’s top Communist Party official. The heated exchange appears to be a major embarrassment for Chief Executive Donald Tsang, who organized the trip.
Read MoreTyphoon Damrey sweeping over Hainan, two died; via duowei.com.
Read MoreFrom the Toronto Star: Although Hu Jintao’s visit to North America was overshadowed by coverage of Hurricane Katrina, one theme that came through clearly in Canadian reporting was our desire to expand trade with China. Bilateral trade with the People’s Republic currently is worth about $20 billion a year, and accounts for just a tiny […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Two innocents abroad learn the limits of American idealism – or the limits of their own, at least – in “No Foreigners Beyond This Point,” Warren Leight‘s wistfully funny new play about the difficulty of doing good in a society rigged to accommodate only more cynical transactions. Produced by the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China on Sunday imposed more restrictions intended to limit the news and other information available to Internet users, and it sharply restricted the scope of content permitted on Web sites. The rules...
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Read MoreFrom China Daily: When the first stop on last winter’s tour of 265 never-before seen in Asia Picassos was announced as being not Beijing or Shanghai but Shenzhen, some in China’s art scene expressed mild indignation. Though the rolling Picasso exhibit did eventually make its way to the cities considered more art savvy, the fact […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: The 1st International Forum on Social Security convened here on Saturday. More than 200 scholars from China, Japan and Republic of Korea attended the forum. Han Qide, vice chairman of the China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, sent a congratulatory message to the forum, saying that China has initiated reform on social […]
Read MoreFrom xinhuanet: Facing the sustained cold political ties between China and Japan, Chinese scholars Friday urged the two countries to expand common interests and cooperation with concrete measures to secure “a relatively optimistic and stable” Sino-Japanese ties. Jin Linbo, a researcher of the Asia-Pacific Office under the China Research Institute of International Studies, said despite […]
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