From The International Herald Tribune: The World Health Organization has urged China to conduct more tests to clarify perplexing aspects of the largest outbreak in humans of a bacterial pig disease, including why the death rate among patients has been unusually high. China has reported that the disease, caused by Streptococcus suis bacteria, infected 206 […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: China’s state-controlled oil firm, China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, has bowed out of the race to purchase Unocal Corp., a U.S. energy company with significant holdings in Asia, after the Chinese giant encountered heavy political opposition to its bid. The Unocal affair highlights problems with the whole globalization […]
Read MoreFrom YaleGlobal: Six centuries ago, Chinese Admiral Zheng He embarked on the first voyage of a career that encompassed destinations as far as India, Persia, Arabia, and Africa. Though his achievements were forgotten for centuries, a re-emergence of interest in his story coincides with China’s dramatic rise. As historian Wang Gungwu notes, it also coincides […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: In the 17th and 18th centuries, China as a state underwent a great transformation, the consequences of which reverberate to the present day. Through extensive and sometimes protracted military conquest, China’s last imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), effectively altered the special understanding the empire ruled from Beijing by doubling the territory […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China would forbid any new foreign-owned TV channels from entering the country, domestic media reported. China “will not again allow a foreign satellite TV station to have landing rights in the country,” Xinhua said, citing new rules from domestic regulators. Regulators said the new rules were designed to strengthen oversight of the industry […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Chen Ming-sheng looks tired. After 15 years, he is closing his small car parts business in Taipei. “It’s not worth it any more. The only ones making money are IT exporters,” he says. “The government is just not dedicated to making business flourish.” With more than 3 per cent growth expected […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Russia’s unprecedented joint war games with China can be viewed as a dual message to the United States and the Central Asian republics of the extent to which Beijing and Moscow are prepared to go to protect their interests. Russia is to dispatch about 2,000 troops for exercises scheduled August 18 […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Summer in Beijing is known for heat, smog, and ubiquitous traffic jams. None of this, however, deters the city from hosting two important conferences. One is the much-anticipated fourth round of six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue that began July 26; the other was the senior dialogue on global issues […]
Read MoreFrom City Weekend: With a spate of flashy film festival awards in recent years, Chinese documentaries have arrived in style on the international scene. And films like Du Haibin’s Beautiful Men, darling of this year’s Beijing Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, signal that times are changing and the people on the margins of society are […]
Read MoreForest fire in Da Hinggan Mountains, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional; via duowei.com
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: The doctoring of Japanese school textbooks to omit negative portrayals of its wartime conduct has provoked an outcry in East Asia, but one doesn’t have to look far to discover that every nation has its own version of history. It also becomes evident […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Taipei Times: Delegates to North Korean disarmament talks said yesterday they were approaching the final stages of discussions, but that a resolution to the dispute over the communist nation’s nuclear weapons program lay ultimately in its own hands. Envoys from the two Koreas, the United States, Japan and Russia were reviewing the […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: New regulations proposed by the Chinese government would keep additional foreign satellite broadcasters from entering the market and would strengthen restrictions on foreign television programs, books, newspapers and theater performances, all in an effort to tighten control over the country’s culture. The regulations were announced on Tuesday by China’s Propaganda […]
Read MoreFrom Economist.com: The high point came last November, when Hu Jintao, China’s president, arrived in Latin America to sign a series of trade and investment deals that heralded a new relationship between a rising superpower and a continent eager for economic growth. Nowhere was he greeted more warmly than in Brazil. Its left-leaning president, Luiz […]
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