From Maclean’s: If Japan was a surging tide, then China is a tsunami. The globe’s most populous country turned manufacturing juggernaut has a one-two punch of low-cost labour and homegrown national champions taking the world by storm. Its economy, which has been growing above nine per cent for a decade, has already surpassed Japan’s in […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A modern and booming city that one sees through a glimpse of Beijing is featured by skyscrapers overlooking streets of overparked cars with multicolored lights lit up the city at the night. But here in the quiet Nangangzi Village of neighboring Hebei Province, only 15 kilometers from Beijing’s boundary, the 74-year-old Zhang Jianzhi […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A stronger China does not mean it becomes a threat to the United States and the Asian country’s rapid development is to the benefit of the whole world, including America, a US scholar says. Michael Swaine, an expert on US-China military and security policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: Chen Yuemin, 47, a farmer from Quannan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, might never expect that his quest for more money and a better life would be ended in such a tragic way. Chen, who switched to work on a coal mine seven hours’ bus ride away from his home just […]
Read MoreFrom Yannan Forum, translated by EastSouthWestNorth, Liu Jing is a journalism student in the People’s University. From a colleague in the business of newspaper distribution, I learned a lot of insider information which are unwritten rules within the industry. If there is not yet an authoritative organization to determine newspaper circulation, then we will have […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: All mobile phone and Xiaolingtong (PHS) subscribers in Shanghai, new and old, will have to register their legal names with city authorities beginning September 1, the Shanghai Communications Administration and the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (PSB) said on Friday. “We have tightened control in order to protect mobile phone users from malicious and […]
Read MoreFrom The Asian Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: This summer, I took a research team to Beijing to document police abuse against petitioners for an upcoming Human Rights Watch report. In pairs and small groups, over the course of two weeks, the victims straggled into our various meeting rooms, hidden around […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio: For the first time, Chinese farmers are not paying a harvest tax. Beijing is lifting the tax to fight growing unrest in the countryside that in the past has brought on revolution. Listen to the story here.
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: A rare protest by Chinese journalists at a leading national newspaper offers a window into the intensifying severity of information control in China and the sometimes sophisticated resistance to it by Chinese journalists. A frank 19-page letter by Li Datong, a senior editor at China Youth Daily, details a struggle […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Alarmed by high world oil prices and sporadic shortages of gasoline and diesel fuel in big cities this summer, China’s leaders are drafting plans to impose steep taxes on cars and sport utility vehicles with gas-guzzling engines. The taxes would add as much as 27 percent to the price of […]
Read MoreChina, Russia joint military exercise, by Cha Chuning, via Duowei.com
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Read MoreFrom UPI, via Monsters and Critics: A press conference Wednesday revealed the Maoist axiom of “women holding up half of heaven” is still far from being realized in mainland Chinese society. A series of events are planned in Beijing between Aug. 29 and Sept. 1 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the “Beijing Declaration” and […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: A senior Chinese energy researcher said this week that his country will accelerate its move away from coal because of rising prices and environmental concerns. The report from Zhou Dadi, director of the Energy Research Institute, did not set a specific target for reducing China’s overwhelming dependence on coal for […]
Read MoreFrom internetnews.com: Perpetrators are using Web sites in China to breach computer networks in the Department of Defense (DoD) and other U.S. agencies, according to U.S. officials. While classified systems have not yet been breached, officials are concerned because bits of information pieced together can provide an enemy with useful windows into the U.S. government’s […]
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