In the New York Times, Tina Rosenberg writes: It was the force of capitalist profits, not Communist law, that compelled Yahoo to hand over Shi Tao and its unapologetic response seems devised to ingratiate Yahoo further with...
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: Liu Yazhou, a 53 year-old PLA general, erstwhile novelist, and rising political star, has published a series of frequent and provocative essays in China over the last few years to considerable acclaim”and controversy. In a regime where political expression is strictly limited, and where discussion of political issues may […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABCNews.com: A proposal by China on ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program hit snags Saturday when several countries, including the North and the United States, said they could not accept it, the chief U.S. envoy to the talks said. “Several delegations, including ours, had difficulties with it,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: Even Miss Manners might blanch at the task at hand: charm school for a billion people, a good number of them convinced that life means never having to say you’re sorry, excuse me or thank you. This is no tutorial on fish forks. In advance of the 2008 Olympics, the […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: As international leaders gathered Thursday at the United Nations to address plans to eradicate global poverty, the Bush administration notified Congress that it will withhold the U.S. contribution ($34 million) to the U.N. Population Fund for the fourth consecutive year. This aid provides vital services for the world’s poorest women […]
Read MoreShanghai neighborhoods near the old Zhang Yuan area, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: “See the world without leaving Beijing,” says the ad line for World Park, a real-life amusement complex in China’s capital city that has replicas of such world landmarks as Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower and the Pyramids. In Jia Zhangke‘s richly textured and colorfully realized “The World,” Tao is a pretty […]
Read MoreFrom Softpedia.com: The Internet is a strange place, where dangers like erotic web-chats, naughty sites, warez and other virtual monsters are determined to pervert the minds of the young Chinese and to make them prisoners of the virtual reality. At least that’s what the Chinese authorities think, as China Daily reports. That is why the […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Coal mining will soon cease to exist as an industry in south China’s Guangdong Province. In the wake of the Daxing Coal Mine flooding in Xingning in Guangdong in early August, which killed 123 miners, the provincial government has already shut down 112 mines because they lacked the required production or work […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp., EMI Group Plc and Universal Music Group are suing Baidu.com Inc., China’s most-used Internet search engine, for allowing free downloads of their music. The companies filed lawsuits against Baidu in the Beijing Intermediate Court, seeking to stop it from offering the service, Leong May Seey, […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Most of the world is getting used to the fact that China is now a major player on the economic stage – it has witnessed the most rapid industrialisation in history, but is this phenomenal rate of change sustainable? The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development seems to think so. People’s Daily […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal, via Glimpse of the World blog: Are Americans missing a revolution? Across the Pacific, China’s emergence is reshaping not only trade, but also world finances, global manufacturing and the entire East Asian economy. This should naturally give rise to searching debate. But the debate we are actually having is limited […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Guardian: China proposed Friday that North Korea retain the right to a peaceful nuclear program after abandoning its weapons, but Pyongyang rejected the idea. “We will never give up our nuclear”...
Read MoreShopping mall did not close for 60 hours, Beijing; via backchina.com
Read MoreTeeth cleaning display, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
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