From The Wired News: The controversy over U.S. businesses’ dealings with repressive governments bloomed anew last month when it emerged that Microsoft programmed its MSN Spaces blog-hosting service to prohibit phrases like “human rights,” “freedom” and “democracy” from the titles of Chinese blogs and postings, in an apparent bid to curry favor with China’s ruling […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: China’s reform of its medical and health system has been “basically not successful”, China Youth Daily reported Friday. Ge Yanfeng, deputy chief of the social development research department under the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRCSC), China’s cabinet, said in an exclusive interview with the paper that there are […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): When Yong Chen came to California 30 years ago, he left behind a hometown in central China’s Hubei province so mired in poverty that he worried his neighbors wouldn’t have enough to eat. There was little auto traffic because most people rode bicycles. Brown brick government housing […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: More than 1,000 villagers in inner Mongolia took the local communist party chief hostage yesterday in the latest land dispute to rock the Chinese countryside. Amid signs of division in the government about how to handle rural unrest, the residents of Qianjin village have driven off hundreds of armed police and blocked […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: A US judge is to decide whether to issue an order barring a former Microsoft executive from heading computer industry rival Google’s planned China research center, court officials said, AFP reported. Microsoft attorneys have asked a judge in the western state of Washington to stop Lee Kai-Fu from doing the job […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China plans to “vaccinate” the younger generation against the evil of corruption by teaching a new class, as part of the on-going nationwide anti-corruption campaign, reported the Oriental Outlook Weekly… The new education program is aimed at protecting the young fromthe “bad influence” of certain corruptive concepts and phenomena from the West, says […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: It’s been a big year for Chinese environmentalists. They’ve seen the hitherto somnambulant government environmental watchdog, under the stewardship of a feisty vice-director, score some rare victories and begin to wake up. The triumphs include taking on the powerful Big Dam industry over shoddy environmental auditing standards, and winning. There’s been the […]
Read MoreThe World Socialist Web Site is publishing this on-the-spot report it received from a correspondent in Beijing: Beijing provides one with a glimpse of the economic, social and political tensions building up in China. Everywhere throughout this massive city I can see glaring contrasts between rich and poor, old and new, modern technology and primitive […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The US and five Asia-Pacific states have announced a surprise pact to cut greenhouse gases which falls outside the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. China, India, South Korea, Japan and Australia and the US account for nearly half of world greenhouse gas emissions.
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: To many Chinese patients, antibiotics are silver bullets: a cure for everything from skin infections to life-threatening lung ailments; and if a little is good, then more must be better”especially if you can get dosed directly through an intravenous line… But keeping the peace in the waiting room may be contributing to […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Zimbabwe’s political isolation has only hastened the process, as President Mugabe’s growing alienation from the West has created an economic vacuum that Beijing is rushing to fill. China’s policy of non-interference in the political affairs of others, and a refusal to take other governments to task on issues of human rights and […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: GLOBAL tremors in the currency, bond and commodity markets greeted China’s announcement that the yuan will no longer be pegged to the dollar. No longer is it just Washington that has the power to cause shockwaves. For many people, the tremors reflected the view that China is the root cause of America’s […]
Read MoreFrom Baltimoresun.com: It was on the Internet that anti-Japanese sentiments coalesced into a real-world movement, generating huge street demonstrations in Chinese cities last spring. And it was on the Internet that a routine car accident, in which a BMW struck and killed someone, became a flash point for angry debate about China’s growing divide between […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: China has embarked on a more pro-active campaign to counter criticism in the US of its growing economic and military power, using the visit of a senior official to Washington to make the case in public for a strategic relationship and employing a top US lobbying firm to communicate with Congress. […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: Some analysts attribute the recent blasts in London to a clash between Christian and Islamic civilizations. I don’t think so. The human history sees indeed conflicts between states, nationalities and regions out of reasons of civilization (such as religion). But from a general perspective of history evolvement, assimilation and mixture […]
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