From the BBC: China is planning to increase its focus on women in the fight against HIV/Aids, due to a sharp rise in the rate of female infection, state media has said. In the 1990s the male to female ratio of HIV/Aids infection was 5:1, but the figure is now closer to 2:1. In some […]
Read MoreFrom ABC News: China is home to the world’s last great Communist regime. Time and again since it came to power in 1949, the Communist Party has shown how ruthless it can be in maintaining its rule. Be it the purges of the 1950s, the massacre of civilians in Beijing in1989, the ongoing detention of […]
Read MoreFrom the Baltimore Sun: China’s economic ascent – the most sweeping and rapid march to industrialization in world history – has much of the rest of the globe and particularly Americans reeling backwards in, shall we say, shock and awe. Even many who long have believed that the 21st Century could be China’s suddenly find […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Three members of the Bush cabinet will be in Beijing for trade talks tomorrow, one day after a visit there today by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Some of the issues that come up will be genuinely difficult: for example, how to reconcile the U.S. interest in protecting the intellectual property […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune: Congress and columnists are in a predictable tizzy over the news that CNOOC, a state-owned Chinese oil company, had put in an $18.5 billion bid for Unocal, a U.S. oil company… There are several things to be said about all this, none of it good news for Americans who thought we […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: This is the new Chinese Dream: cars and suburbs. Like the American counterpart, it is good news for many people — but perhaps bad news for Planet Earth. The same economic boom that is catapulting millions of Chinese each year into the middle class has made their country the world’s […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: As seen by many outsiders, China is a behemoth: the world’s most populous country with a galloping economy and a more or less unified culture. But if Putonghua – Mandarin – is one of the world’s most heavily spoken languages, in many parts of China it is lost in the […]
Read MoreFrom Caijing, via Press Interpreter, translated By David Lancashire: 11:30pm on June 6th, Beijing time, in the Zhonghai Oil building outside Dongzhimen in Beijing. 54 year old Fu Chengyu dialed through to Charles Williamson, Chairman of the Board for Unocal. Williamson had just touched down in Thailand in a charter jet. “It’s passed board approval, […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The domestic pressure on China to dump its currency peg to the US dollar and move to a more flexible exchange rate has eased substantially, local and foreign economists say, because of a slowing economy, low inflation and moderating credit growth. But Beijing’s success in reducing pressure on the currency is […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Two years ago, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation and another Chinese state-controlled oil company seemed on the verge of capturing a large patch of foreign oil reserves with a handshake deal to pay $1.23 billion for part of a field in Kazakhstan. Skip to next paragraph But the prospect […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: For Chinese Netizens, Internet has outweighed all other media as information source, a latest survey on China’s Internet says. Internet as information source has outweighed all other media, which is of symbolic significance, Guo Liang, an associate researcher with China’s Academy of social science writes in a survey on Internet […]
Read MoreFrom the Globe and Mail: A sudden drumbeat of panicky warnings about China’s growing military and economic power is sparking fears that the United States and Japan could soon be entangled in conflict with the world’s most populous nation. The ominous warnings have been everywhere in the American and Japanese media in recent weeks, ringing […]
Read MoreFrom Ap, via SFGate.com: When it comes to preparing for the Olympics, Beijing is no Athens. Whereas the Greek capital’s preparations for last year’s games went down to the line, Beijing is sailing along ” and there’s still three years to go. China was going so fast, in fact, that International Olympic Committee officials had […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The Communist Party remains firmly in control of China, although a small number of members are wayward and corrupt, a senior party official said Thursday, providing a rare peek at the internal machinery of an organization with nearly 70 million members. Li Jingtian, deputy head of the party’s secretive Organization […]
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