From Grist Magazine: China has been a global trade presence since well before Marco Polo trekked there, but, as the recent flurry of successful and attempted acquisitions of major Western brands suggests, its influence has surged of late. If you like the German spectator sport of schadenfreude, one delicious consequence of this is watching presidents, […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Peter Mandelson, EU trade commissioner, on Monday claimed China had a “moral and political obligation” to help solve the trade crisis which has left millions of Chinese garments piling up at Europe’s ports. He was speaking after the collapse of talks in Beijing aimed at resolving the dispute, which has infuriated […]
Read MoreHuaihua University art building, thanks to Mark Hobbs for the photo, via blogger.
Read MoreFrom TIME.com: Rupert Murdoch‘s relationship with Beijing started on the wrong foot. The Australian-born mogul declared in 1993 that satellite-television networks, like the Hong Kong–based Star TV venture that he had purchased, would pose “an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.” Since then he has danced more carefully to Beijing’s tune. Soon after his provocative […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via International Herald Tribune: When Yu Youjun, executive deputy governor of Hunan Province, had lunch at the Beverly Hills, California, home of Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom, in June, the two discussed co-productions for Viacom’s MTV International and Chinese companies, Redstone recalled. Viacom, like many U.S. media companies, is already […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The second season of Super Girls, a TV pop star contest, came to a close on Friday night, but, after generating massive ratings and similarly huge earnings, organizers could be forgiven for not paying too much attention to who actually won. The Hunan Satellite Television show’s ratings have reportedly overtaken the benchmark […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: It was another routine night for Shawn Carpenter. After a long day analyzing computer-network security for Sandia National Laboratories, where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed, Carpenter, 36, retreated to his ranch house in the hills overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., for a quick dinner and an early bedtime. He set his […]
Read MoreFrom The Weekend Standard: It’s 7am in central Beijing and the sun’s early rays percolate through the thick city smog to glint off the chrome handlebars of a throng of one-man vehicles jockeying with bicycles for position at a teeming road junction. The signal changes and the maelstrom pushes forward – a dozen bicycles followed […]
Read MoreFrom The Red Herring: Internet phenomenon Sister Hibiscus’ claims of a government clampdown touches off a debate on the impact of new media. Are you a Chinese Internet phenomenon whose 15 minutes are nearly up, but who isn’t quite ready to go gentle into that good night? Just cry “censorship!” to members of the international […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: The televised event Super Girls from Hunan Satellite Television is finally over after many weeks. The final show garnered a rating of better than 10%, which is astonishing for a regional television...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: There is a placard beside Tiananmen Square that counts the days until the 2008 Summer Olympics, and every one of them would seem precious: Beijing must build or renovate 72 sports stadiums and training facilities, lay asphalt for 59 new roads and complete three new bridges by the opening ceremony. […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A crowd of disheveled villagers was waiting when Chen Guangcheng stepped out of the car. More women than men among them, a mix of desperation and hope on their faces, they ushered him along a dirt path and into a nearby house. Then, one after another, they told him about the […]
Read MoreFrom The San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. architects retool classic formula for Chinese environment as designers worldwide help transform cities of rising superpower China’s building buzz has reached the Bay Area in earnest. This country’s dramatic construction wave has attracted architects from around the world. Designers big and small, from Madrid to Melbourne — and nowhere […]
Read MoreFrom Sunday Herald: Alarm bells ring in the West as China’s quest for resources means making deals with some of the world’s worst regimes. Top representatives of 46 African countries are this weekend returning from the annual China-Africa Co-operation Forum (CACF) in Beijing with fresh promises of Chinese help in developing their nations. The CACF, […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: When two real estate tycoons make preparations to start rival television shows within weeks of fighting each other in court, it has all the looks of an ego-driven catfight. That perception is only reinforced when the tycoons are Donald J. Trump, New York’s brashest developer, and Vincent Lo, a Hong […]
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