From the International Herald Tribune: The decision by Washington and Beijing to postpone President Hu Jintao’s official visit to the United States, because of President George W. Bush’s preoccupation with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, allows both sides to defuse, at least for now, a thorny diplomatic issue. Beijing was upset that Hu was not […]
Read MoreFrom The New Zealand Herald: The evolution of China’s internet is one of the biggest business stories of the year, especially after search engine Baidu’s hugely oversubscribed Nasdaq IPO this northern summer. The sector has many classic China features: it has been heavily (and successfully) supported by the Government, the numbers involved are huge and […]
Read MoreFrom RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY: Traditionally China’s 900 million peasants have served as the power base of the Communist Party(AFP)Scarcely a month goes by without news coming from rural China of often-violent protests by locals over corruption, land-grabs, taxation, or environmental issues. The authorities are struggling to stem this rising tide of challenges to […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China commemorated the 60th anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat on Saturday, saying “the just had prevailed against the evil” back then but denying any military ambitions today. President Hu Jintao used the occasion to emphasize that China’s economic and military power is not directed against Japan or the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China, the world’s second-largest oil consumer, may boost its long-term commitment to renewable energy use by 50 percent, a top policy maker said on Monday. Beijing currently aims to get one-tenth of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and this year passed a law forcing power suppliers to buy more electricity from […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: As the age of globalization grapples with its first energy shock, few major economies may be more vulnerable than China. That is not what you will read in the popular press. There, the story is China’s 9.5 percent growth, its boundless potential and how the Chinese juggernaut will soon cost […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: The European Union and China reached an agreement to end a stalemate that has left 400 million euros ($502 million) of Chinese garments stranded at European ports. “The EU and China will share responsibility for the goods which are blocked,” Simon Fraser, chief of staff to European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, told journalists […]
Read MoreFrom the Observer: Once used purely for propaganda, photography has exploded in China in the last decade. Experimental artists have gained international success by playing with ideas of truth and fiction, the old and the new, vanishing traditions and modern urban alienation. As a major exhibition opens at the V&A, Gaby Wood finds out what […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Richard Baum, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, recommends Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Jonathan Cape, 2005 (to be published in the […]
Read MoreMiddle school kids line up for inspection, Huaihua, thanks to Mark Hobbs for the photo, via Blogger
Read MoreFrom CBS News: Is the Party over? In China, the Communist Party was once everything. Today, it is still the main and only political apparatus, and it punishes, jails, beats and kills those who oppose it. But the reality is that many Chinese are losing interest in it. … Lieberthal points out that the Party […]
Read MorePioneering former Southern Metropolis News (ÂçóÊñπÈÉΩÂ∏ÇÊä•) editor Cheng Yizhong has been invited by Sohu.com to write daily commentary on China’s newspapers. Cheng spent five months in prison but was released last...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World: New problems come and go between China and the United States, but when leaders of the two countries meet in Washington shortly, protection of intellectual property will be on the agenda – as it has been for years. Joining DVD’s and cheap knockoffs of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Comprehending Chinese government statistics is a mentally demanding task. Consider, for example, a pair of figures released this summer regarding financial misconduct. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate released a report in July, claiming that economic losses as a direct result of convicted malfeasance between 2000 and June 2005 totaled 48 billion yuan (US$5.9 […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China’s runaway summer hit, “Super Girl,” ended last weekend with a television viewership that eclipsed the combined populations of the United States and Canada. State news media reported that more than 400 million people had watched the finale of the show, an “American Idol” knockoff, and saw a frizzy-haired music […]
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