From The Financial Times: China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese general said on Thursday. “If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China’s territory, I think we will have to respond […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: The incident that caused 200,000 broadband users offline is still under investigation. US Cisco System Inc, the router provider for the Beijing Branch, did not offer the concrete reason Wednesday, according to Beijing Morning Post. At 2:35pm on July 12, the Beijing Netcom Branch’s ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) and LAN […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A senior Chinese official has been arrested on suspicion of hiring hitmen to murder his wife, according to reports in the country’s state media. Lu Debin was arrested last month, but details of the case are only just emerging.
Read MoreFrom Reuters AlertNet: Ahead of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two, China’s Communists have qualified their claim that the Nationalists, who ruled the country at the time, had little to do with fighting the invading Japanese… The Communists issued a circular in May, acknowledging that the “entire nation” defeated Japan, departing […]
Read MoreFrom The New Scientist: In the spirit of the 1930s Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko, China is ignoring science it finds inconvenient. The head of the ministry of agriculture’s veterinary bureau, Jia Youling, has rejected research on bird flu published in the journal Nature last week by Yi Guan and his colleagues at the universities of […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CBSNews.com: The managers of an illegal coal mine in China hid the bodies of 17 dead miners after a gas explosion earlier this month and underreported the accident death toll, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday. Officials at the Jiajiapu Coal Mine in central Shanxi province reported 19 miners had died […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited: Police carrying out a nationwide crackdown on gambling in China have detained or arrested more than 702,000 people, including 1,617 government officials, since the beginning of the year, the government has said. The report by the official Xinhua news agency was the latest in a series of updates on the crackdown. […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Overshadowed in the Western press by the Group of Eight summit of leading industrialized nations and the complications to it caused by the London transit bombings, another summit – the July 5 meetings in Astana, Kazakhstan of the heads of government of the six members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) […]
Read MoreFrom AP: The shadows of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island no longer reach to the pine-crested hillsides of Hangzhou Bay, where China is rushing to expand a nuclear power station to meet soaring demand for electricity for its economic boom. Driven by crushing fuel shortages, smog and ambitions to profit from its hard-won nuclear prowess, […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: It could be the biggest mass-indoctrination campaign that China has experienced since the Cultural Revolution. Over the next year, more than 55 million Chinese people will be inculcated with Communist Party ideology in a series of Maoist-style “study sessions” and “self-criticisms.” It’s believed to be the most ambitious and far-reaching […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing English Newsletter: The unsolicited $18.5 billion bid by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for California-based Unocal has become much more than a mere international merger proposal. It has spawned an...
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: A sudden and mysterious drop in China’s oil consumption helped to push down the International Energy Agency’s estimate on Wednesday of global demand for this year. After growing 11 percent in 2003 and 15.4 percent last year, China’s overall oil use declined 1 percent in the second quarter from the […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder Newspapers,via kansas.com: “Its filtering system has become at once more refined and comprehensive over time, building a matrix of controls that stifles access to information deemed illegitimate by authorities,” said a study released April 14 by the OpenNet Initiative, a partnership among scholars at Harvard Law School, the University of Toronto and […]
Read MoreFrom The Scotsman: CHINA is seeking to revive the spirit of the Communist revolution with a “Red Tourism” drive celebrating the hardship endured by Mao Zedong’s followers on the legendary Long March in a network of theme parks. “Wear the clothes of the Red Army! Sing the songs of the Red Army! Eat the food […]
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