From the International Herald Tribune: What sort of power does China aspire to be? With that very question in mind, the outside world watches this country with amazement, and often enough, too, with twinges of discomfort. Those who fret most about China’s rise, though, seem to ignore some very basic, and as yet unanswered, questions. […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via the San Francisco Chronicle: China and Russia launched their most ambitious joint military exercises today, with naval ships, bombers, fighter planes and 10,000 troops massing on China’s northeast coast for maneuvers that the two countries say will show their deepening cooperation. They say the exercise is not intended to […]
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Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: The US and China drew closer to a deal to regulate surging volumes of Chinese textile shipments that have heightened trade tensions between the two economic powers. But further talks will be needed to close the deal, said David Spooner, the special negotiator for textiles in the US Trade Representative’s office, as a […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: China is the biggest producer and consumer of coal. The challenge for the country is to haul each year more than two billion metric tons of coal mined far inland to power stations and industry in coastal provinces. ¬† In recent years, that task has overwhelmed the creaking transportation network […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Sudden shortages of gasoline and diesel fuel in southeastern China have highlighted an ongoing debate over how quickly corporate influence and freedom of information are driving China toward a market-based economy. Many service stations in southeastern China, notably in cities near Hong Kong, have abruptly run out of fuel this […]
Read MoreThe recent edition of Japan Focus features a number of articles concerning Japan-China relations sixty years after the end of World War II, including: Child survivor of forced mass suicide in Manchuria still loves hero who saved her By Ichikawa Miako Koizumi’s Statement on the Sixtieth Anniversary: improving or inflaming relations with China and South […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A court hearing was held for Yu Zhendong, former head of the Kaiping city branch of the Bank of China (BOC) in Guangdong Province, who was accused of embezzlement of public funds. Yu is the first corrupt Chinese official to have been repatriated to China after fleeing the Chinese mainland. He was handed […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via iAfrica.com: China, the factory of the world, is slowly being choked by the pollution brought on by its unrelenting economic transformation and the government is starting to realise it needs to do something about it. Environmentalists describe the situation as extremely serious, but they say a window of opportunity still exists to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A row at an official Chinese newspaper over a fawning article about Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has broken into the open, with some staff saying it rekindled memories of a Mao Zedong-style personality cult. Newspapers are controlled by the party and required to sing its praises, but many and have become increasingly […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: A Beijing court has agreed to hear a lawsuit filed by 3721, a Yahoo! subsidiary, against Chinese search engine Baidu on charges of unfair competition, a court official told Interfax Wednesday. “We have just accepted the case and will be announcing a time for the court hearings later,” an official with the Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Last year a Chinese mathematician, Xiaoyun Wang, shook up the insular world of code breakers by exposing a new vulnerability in a crucial American standard for data encryption. On Monday, she was scheduled to explain her discovery in a keynote address to an international group of researchers meeting in California. […]
Read MoreA “spontaneous” TV interview on the street, from sewsdf, via bbs.163.com.
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The popularity of a course on homosexuality study at Shanghai-based Fudan University is a positive sign that Chinese society is becoming more tolerant. The class, which started in 2003 as a graduate programme, will be offered to undergraduates for the first time next term. Curious students have already signed up to fill […]
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