From Macworld.com: Once a U.S. judge ruled that he could begin work for Google Inc., former Microsoft Corp. executive Kai-Fu Lee didn’t waste any time getting started on his search for researchers to staff Google’s planned research and development (R&D) center in China, a company spokeswoman said Friday… Google, which has a representative office in […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Why is the Beijing agreement different from the worthless “Agreed Framework” Bill Clinton signed in 1994 and North Korea violated (we now know) from the very first day? That agreement was bilateral. This one is six-party, but the major player is China. China conspicuously made itself the locus of the conference […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: A well-known Chinese BBS (bulletin board system) has decided to put an stop to heated public discussions about grassroots democracy in a southern Chinese village and the brutal murder of four people by a migrant worker in Ningxia. The Yannan Community posted an official announcement on Wednesday September 21, urging all forum administrators […]
Read MoreFrom Knight-Ridder: As oil prices rise, carpooling is taking off in China’s biggest cities. But unlike in the West, authorities appear none too happy about it. Web sites that serve as bulletin boards for those who want to carpool have popped up and are drawing huge amounts of interest… As crude oil prices soar worldwide, […]
Read MoreFrom NPR.org: If you think the costs of war in Iraq and recovery from Hurricane Katrina will force President Bush to raise taxes, think again. No matter how high the price may go for rebuilding the Gulf Coast while staying the course in the Persian Gulf, this White House will not choose the revenue option… […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: A “people’s war” on narcotics in China has turned into a campaign against designer drugs after police found a surge in usage of ecstasy, ketamine and methamphetamine, or ice, among urban professionals. In a shift that may be down to a booming economy and the growing influence of globalised culture, Chinese authorities […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Star: China on Thursday published the death toll from this year’s natural disasters, until this month considered a state secret, but showed the limit of its new-found transparency by keeping details of past calamities under wraps. .. “As for the three-year famine in China, we do not have the specific information […]
Read MoreBlowing Bubbles in People’s Square, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Star: Prolific and controversial Taiwan author Li Ao riled China on Wednesday by giving millions of Internet surfers and television viewers a taste of the self-ruled island’s freewheeling democracy. Li championed freedom of speech and took repeated swipes at the Communist Party in a no-holds-barred question-and-answer session at Peking University televised […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Wired.com: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick told China on Wednesday it should take concrete steps to assure the world it will use its power responsibly and said Beijing’s approach to Iran would prove its seriousness on combating nuclear proliferation. The “essential question” for the United States and the world was […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: A lawyer detained for nearly four months because of his role in a landmark attempt to sue authorities in China’s northern province of Shaanxi has been released and returned to Beijing on Tuesday. The detention of Zhu Jiuhu, a lawyer retained by Shaanxi private oil well investors who say the government […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABCNews.com: China’s success in orchestrating a landmark six-nation accord on ending North Korea’s nuclear program has clinched its role as a major peacemaker in the region regardless of the challenges ahead for the deal, analysts say. Just hours after the deal was struck, communist North Korea said it will not dismantle its […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: As China began to go online, observers made brash predictions that the Internet would pry the country open. Cyberspace, the thinking went, would prove too vast and wild for Beijing to keep under its thumb. Now these early assumptions are being sharply revised. Under an authoritarian government determined to control […]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: After presiding over the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland last week, Walt Disney Co. President Robert Iger headed straight to Beijing to meet Liu Yunshan, chief of the Communist Party’s powerful Propaganda Department. Disney declined to say what the two men discussed, but it’s a good bet that Iger, who […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday raised its 2005 growth forecast for China, the world’s fastest-growing economy, and advised Beijing it may need to tighten monetary policy if investment growth rebounds. In its twice-yearly snapshot of the world’s economies, the IMF said Chinese growth was now poised to hit 9 percent this year, […]
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