From the Financial Express: When Lu Xuesong was dismissed from her position as a teacher of Chinese cinema at an arts college in Jilin province in May, she was so angered at the school’s refusal to say why that she posted a plea on the internet. All her materials, she said, had been approved by […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: U.S. and North Korean diplomats acknowledged an irreconcilable deadlock Thursday in stalled nuclear disarmament talks, throwing into doubt the future of Chinese-sponsored six-party negotiations that have been under way for more than two years without result. The stalemate, over North Korea’s demand for a light-water nuclear reactor to produce electricity, brought […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: China will be the key area of growth for the global luxury goods market in the coming years as the country’s economy continues to grow and the tastes of Chinese consumers mature, Ernst & Young said. China is now the world’s third largest luxury goods consumer with more than two bln […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: Even assuming that recent reports about President Hu Jintao’s intention to “rehabilitate the reputation” of the late Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief Hu Yaobang are true, this seems yet another instance of the Chinese supremo’s well-disguised Machiavellianism. Evidence abounds that the 62 year-old CCP General Secretary and commander-in-chief is […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: At Bei Shan Si, an ancient Taoist shrine that sits atop one of the peaks that ring this old Silk Road city, worshipers turn out in large numbers on a misty Sunday morning to climb the shrine’s many stairs, to burn incense in an appeal to the gods, or simply […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The middle class in China’s society is likely to reach 40 percent of its work force within 20 years, if it maintains the current yearly growth rate of 1 percent, said a Chinese expert at the Second China-Europe Senior Forum on Government Management held here Wednesday. Lu Xueyi, a professor of the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: While the world’s leaders gathered in New York this week for the United Nations summit, President Hu Jintao of China and President Bush finally had a chance at a long overdue meeting late Tuesday. Few Americans noticed that President Hu’s visit was postponed so the White House could address Hurricane […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese President Hu Jintao offered the world’s poorest countries tariff-free trade, debt relief and cheap loans on Wednesday — but excluded about a dozen states which recognize China’s rival Taiwan. Hu used his speech at a United Nations summit to underscore fast-growing China’s support for the developing world, calling on rich countries to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Washington is a complex welter of emotions on China. Lately, each day there appear to be fewer “panda huggers” in the US State Department, and at the Pentagon they have become scarcer still. Beijing’s sentencing of Chinese journalist Shi Tao to 10 years in prison after he e-mailed comments made in a […]
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Read MoreChelala writes in Tokyo Times that “During a recent visit to Beijing, U.N. rights envoy Louise Arbour called attention to the serious human-rights situation in China and the need for improvements according to international human-rights standards. An important step in that regard would be for China to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political […]
Read MoreChelala writes in the Tokyo Times: During a recent visit to Beijing, U.N. rights envoy Louise Arbour called attention to the serious human-rights situation in China and the need for improvements according to international human-rights standards. An important step in that regard would be for China to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Chinese President Hu Jintao’s meeting with George W. Bush this week in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations’ 60th anniversary celebration, continues the series of encounters between top American and Chinese leaders that started in 1972. With each meeting, the drama and historical import has diminished. That’s a positive […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Washingtonpost.com: Heart disease, cancer and stroke are now the top killers of middle-aged people in China, fueled by high blood pressure and smoking, which have developed alongside the communist country’s economy, according to one of the largest surveys of its kind. The research into the major causes of death in adults found […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): Imagine what would have happened if during the 1980s an American communications company had provided information that allowed the South African government to track down and imprison an anti-apartheid activist. That is pretty much the moral equivalent of what Yahoo has just done in China in the […]
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