From The Taipei Times: Since the Taiwanese government has failed to get the NT$480 billion (US$15 billion) special arms budget approved in the legislature, some analysts have begun to warn that Taiwan could lose its status as a place of major strategic importance for the US in East Asia. Some experts are saying that the […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Everything you hear about Jack Ma is improbable. But today, he looks like one of China’s smartest high-technology entrepreneurs. Yahoo’s huge deal with him Thursday has turned his company, Alibaba.com, into the biggest Internet operation in China, where Internet use is growing at an explosive pace.
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: That this broad sampling of contemporary Chinese art can be seen in Switzerland is due to the efforts of Uli Sigg, a media executive who was Swiss ambassador to China from 1995 to 1998. Through a combination of business acumen, political savvy and tenacity, Mr. Sigg has gradually managed to […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Russia and China will hold their first ever joint military exercises this week as the once wary neighbors demonstrate their willingness to cooperate in the face of the U.S. military presence in Central Asia. The two countries will also do a little business on the side as Russia shops its hardware, […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Europe/Radio LIberty: Beijing has used its well-honed skills in public relations in recent years to present an image to foreigners of spectacular economic development and a “peaceful rise” that will soon make China a major factor in virtually all fields of international relations. Occasionally, however, the Chinese authorities let their mask slip […]
Read MoreWang Gong Walk, Taiwan, thanks to Camereye for the photo.
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Taipei Times: More than 10,000 residents in central China broke windows and smashed vehicles during a violent protest after police used dogs to disperse a smaller demonstration, according to reports yesterday. The incident began last Thursday when hundreds of residents from the city of Daye in Hubei Province, angry over a plan […]
Read MoreFrom China Times, via Press Interpreter: The Third Annual World Chinese-Language Media Forum will meet between September 21-30 of this year in Hubei Province’s Wuhan. The conference’s theme this year is “Globalization’s ‘China Fever’ in Overseas Chinese Media” and estimates that more than 300 representatives of over 200 foreign media organizations will participate. Communist Party […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: I look through the window down a light shaft and cringe with vertigo. The shaft, its outlines broken by a net of clothes lines and window frames, is cold and silent. It would have been where Wang would have ended a five-year battle against severe depression. He is not alone. He belongs […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CNews: There’s a new type of pilgrim spinning the prayer wheels at Tibet’s holiest sites. Along with the Tibetans who prostrate themselves before the vacant throne of their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, swarms of Chinese tourists rub crisp Chinese money on their foreheads and then cram the bills into collection boxes.
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: These days the word “slow” is not often paired in the same sentence with the famously roaring Chinese economy. Indeed, Beijing has been trying for two years to restrain the excesses of a country growing at the precipitous pace of 9.5 percent. Yet there are emerging signs that the campaign is starting to […]
Read MoreFrom the Miami Herald: These days, it seems as if China and Venezuela are moving toward the same point but from opposite ends of a vast ocean. China is the socialist state that has a thriving industrial sector and is embracing elements of capitalism; Venezuela is the capitalist country with massive oil reserves that is […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: It has been 60 years since Japan’s invading army of two million soldiers laid down its arms in China, but Jiaozhuanghu and scores of other well-funded memorials and museums in the country play a part in nurturing widespread resentment over Japanese wartime aggression and atrocities. This enduring sense of grievance, […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: Chinese security agencies are tightening their controls over foreign non-government organisations operating in the country, fearing they are a cover for efforts to overthrow communist rule. Over the past two years, Beijing has watched with growing anxiety the overthrow of authoritarian regimes led by Soviet-era strongmen in Georgia, Ukraine and […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: On Thursday, Yahoo, the US portal, announced it would pay $US1 billion ($1.3 billion) as part of a deal to gain a 40 per cent stake in Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce company that had cash revenues of only $US68m in 2004. The deal followed hard on the heels of a stunning Nasdaq […]
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