From The Financial Times: China has defended its refusal to lift pump prices to keep pace with rises in the global oil market over the last 12 months, saying further increases would damage local industries, the military and the economy. Zhang Guobao, vice-chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, the chief economic planning body […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: China plans to increase its installed capacity of nuclear power to 40 million kw by the year 2020, accounting for 4 percent of the country’s total installed capacity at that time, a senior government official said here Tuesday. China’s current installed nuclear power capacity takes up less than 2 percent of […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily: China announced Monday it has declassified materials relevant to the death toll in natural disasters. This change and many others before it indicate the government is serious about transparency. There have been so many similar developments in recent years that people have begun to take them for granted. They include the […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: China’s fifth internet summit attracted the country’s most successful entrepreneurs, and a record number of international visitors. ……no other country has China’s growth potential. Analysts estimate that the number of internet users in China could equal the entire population of the US by 2010. ……Some say China is now experiencing its own […]
Read MoreThe streets near Yu Yuan, thanks to Shanghai Diaries for the photo, via flickr
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The commander of United States military forces in the Pacific and most of the Indian Ocean sounded a conciliatory note toward China on Sunday. He called for closer cooperation between the United States and Chinese militaries and an agreement about how to coordinate responses to natural disasters like the tsunami […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: In a setback for Pope Benedict XVI‘s efforts to improve its official ties with China, the authorities in Beijing have rejected a Vatican invitation to four Chinese Catholic bishops to attend a church conference in Rome… A spokesman for China’s official Catholic church, the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, and the […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: From the Matrix and Kill Bill to Kung Fu Hustle and House of Flying Daggers, the Shaolin monks have had to watch passively as their trademark martial arts have made millions for film studios in Hollywood and Hong Kong. But now the monks are striking back with a series of big budget […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Washingtonpost.com: A rail link being built between Tibet and several major Chinese cities could lead to “cultural genocide” by luring more Chinese workers to the region, the Dalai Lama said. Tibet’s spiritual leader said following a speech in Idaho Sunday that more pressure will be placed on native Tibetans by the rail […]
Read MoreFrom In These Times: China’s Communists take pride in turning established ideas on their heads. Their latest success has been in toppling the notion that free markets create free societies. Though China is the fastest growing economy in the world, censorship and limits on freedom of expression are on the increase as the government struggles […]
Read MoreFrom The Useless Tree blog: The new Disney park opened in Hong Kong, but to underscore the fact that this is a vision of China’s future, the opening was attended by Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong. And we know what Disney does to culture: it turns it into happy sound-bite “experiences,” devoid of critical depth […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: The men with the poison-filled syringe arrived two days before Li Juan’s due date. They pinned her down on a bed in a local clinic, she says, and drove the needle into her abdomen until it entered the 9-month-old fetus. “At first, I could feel my child kicking a lot,” says the […]
Read MoreFrom Inhabitat.com: British engineering and design consultancy Arup has signed a contract with Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC) to plan the world’s first sustainable “eco-city” – at Dongtan, outside of Shanghai. The new city, which will be three-quarters the size of Manhattan, will be built on the eastern end of Chongming, a large island that […]
Read MoreGongfu illustration of a Go game: Chang Hao vs Lee Changho (South Korea), from Xinhua, via duowei,net.
Read MoreGongfu illustration of a Go game, via duowei,net.
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