From National Public Radio’s Morning Edition: A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday concerning two men being held at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The men are Uighurs — a minority Muslim group in northwestern China. They have been held at the remote military base for more than three years, even […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Mainland authorities have rejected an application by the family of Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong to seek legal representation for him, on the grounds that his case is still under investigation. Ching’s journalist wife, Mary Lau Man-yee, said she received a notice from the State Security […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Miami Herald: Baidu.com Inc.’s bubble has already deflated remarkably, less than three weeks after its U.S. stock-market debut. The Chinese Internet search engine’s shares soared 354 percent to $122.54 on their first day of trading on Aug. 5, a rise that, for some, triggered uncomfortable memories of the late 1990s go-go […]
Read MoreFrom ABC: The World Today: ELEANOR HALL: It’s now more than half a century since Chinese forces took control of the landlocked Buddhist community of Tibet, but next week is the 40th Anniversary of China’s founding of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and the Communist Government is now preparing for a huge celebration to mark the […]
Read MoreToday National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation will broadcast a show about technology innovation in China: Once known as the capital of cheap knockoffs, China is cruising down the high-tech highway. And some say it could surpass the United States in technological innovation in the next decade. Listen to the story here.
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: Government crackdown on foreign media in China is nothing new; Beijing routinely blocks access to foreign news organizations such as the BBC. But if the authorities are obstreperous enough it can avoid censorship altogether: Media giant News Corp.’s plans to broadcast in China via a local partnership have been shelved amid increasing government […]
Read MoreFrom The Foreign Affairs: Summary: No country can affect China’s fortunes more directly than the United States. Many potential flashpoints — such as Taiwan, Japan, and North Korea — remain, and true friendship between Washington and Beijing is unlikely. But their interests have grown so intertwined that cooperation is the best way to serve both […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: India In an echo of the contemporary American strategy to contain China by augmenting India’s global stature, the Kennedy administration in 1963 pondered the feasibility of a nuclear strike against China if it attacked India for a second time, according to newly declassified audio recordings of White House deliberations. Over […]
Read MoreFrom The Business Week: With their growing economies thirsty for fuel, the two rising powers are tussling with each other over energy resources all over the world American attention has lately been focused on China’s emergence as a competitor for dwindling oil supplies — witness the uproar over CNOOC’s failed bid for California’s Unocal. But […]
Read MoreFrom The Daily Times: The Chinese economy has been growing at such a breathtaking annual pace – 9.5% in the year ending in the second quarter of 2005 – that it is the toast of the world, an apparent inspiration for developing countries everywhere. But is China getting too much of a good thing? Since […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (Sub Required): The US and China have been chief locomotives of global growth for several years. With exchange rates calculated at purchasing power parity, they are the two largest economies. They rank first and third among trading nations. An economic clash would thus be extremely costly for the world economy as […]
Read MoreBicycle rickshaw in the rain, from Hu Jun, via boxun.com.
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The China Daily: China last month freed the yuan from an 11-year-old peg to the US dollar and allowed the unit to appreciate 2.1 percent. Beijing’s thirst for foreign energy to power its economic emergence has also sparked concern : fierce opposition in Congress and elsewhere last month prompted China National Offshore […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Few nations are culturally so similar yet have disliked each other so deeply and so long as China and Japan. As the Chinese proverb goes, “Two tigers cannot live on the same hill.” Mutual respect based on equality and understanding is sorely lacking in both China and Japan, a situation […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Quantity does not automatically translate into quality in industrial performance, any more than in other realms, and China overall remains a poor and backward country, dependent on imported technology. Demographic trends, internal migration and uncontrolled urban development, plus megalomaniac, environmentally disastrous infrastructure projects, all threaten sound development. The scenario of […]
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