From 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 […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times Online: Success is not yet assured for the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation’s bid for the Canadian oil company PetroKazakhstan (PK). That will require a two-thirds vote by shareholders at a meeting to be held in October, and probably the approval of the Kazakh government, which has had tense relations with PK […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: For China’s Communist Party, there are two first-degree thought crimes here. First, Mao’s huge portrait still looms over Tiananmen Square and China’s current leaders claim to be his heirs. Second, Beijing regularly condemns Japanese prime ministers for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine to venerate dead soldiers, including those hanged as World […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World: There is a growing uneasiness in the air in China, after months of increasingly bold protests rolling across the countryside. For reasons that range from rampant industrial pollution to widespread evictions and land seizures by corrupt local governments in cahoots with increasingly powerful property […]
Read MoreFrom The Indian Press: The latest development in the high-stakes rivalry between energy hungry India and China saw India once again trumped by its Himalayan neighbour. The acquistion of PetroKazakhstan Inc, by a unit of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) is being feted in the mainland as a major victory at a time the country […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: China may have some of the world’s most active Internet police, who make sure its citizens don’t get out of line while they’re online. But Hu Zhiguang is out to prove that the blogosphere is nonetheless alive and thriving in China. Hu, a wiry 27-year-old with a soul patch of a beard […]
Read MoreFrom The EastSouthWestNorth blog: [translation] According to the China Youth Daily, the Jilin Provincial Government Reseach Center conducted a study of students at a senior secondary school in a rural county. 28.7% of the students said that they were afraid of attending university, because their family cannot afford the university fees. According to the study […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Newsday.com: In the mosquito-infested fields of Russia’s Far East, Chinese pick tomatoes. In the markets, they sell cheap jeans and backpacks and fix shoes. At construction sites, they rebuild cities. As China and Russia embark on a new stage of cooperation by holding joint military exercises launched from the Pacific port of […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Many in Japan dispute the scale of killing in Nanjing in 1937. A Japanese court has rejected a claim that journalists made up the story of a killing competition carried out by Japan’s army in China in 1937. It is a rare legal victory for the critics of Japan’s wartime past. The […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: In late 2003, the Pentagon quietly decided that 15 Chinese Muslims detained at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be released. Five were people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, some of them picked up by Pakistani bounty hunters for U.S. payoffs. The other 10 […]
Read MoreComputer lab for university students at Huaihua, thanks to Mark Hobbs for the photo, via blogger
Read MoreChinese authorities often uses “state secrets” charges to arrest government critics and others who write or talk about sensitive political subjects, including journalists Zhao Yan and Shi Tao. Yet the government has...
Read MoreFrom AP, via Salon: China’s growing thirst for oil will place a greater strain on the world’s top supplier, Saudi Arabia, at the very time doubts are being raised about the kingdom’s ability to substantially increase production. Should output falter in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East nations, some analysts warn of growing tension — […]
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