From the Los Angeles Times: When Liu Chuan-zhi started a personal computer business in 1984 off “Swindler’s Alley,” Beijing’s electronics black market, he could never have imagined it would one day buy IBM Corp.’s PC business. Similarly, the firm of Clifford Chance, which handled the Lenovo-IBM deal, would have had little idea that within 20 […]
Read MoreForced evictions in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, photo series from tianya BBS, via forum.chinesenewsnet.com
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times Online: A senior government official said on Thursday that China’s oil and gas reserves are better than expected, and China’s energy consumption growth is by no means a threat to the world’s energy market. Xu Dingming, director of Energy Bureau of the National Development Reform Commission, also dismissed speculation that China […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily Online: In the morning of June 28, 2005, the Ideal Plaza situated at the north 4th Ring Road in Beijing saw a mysterious guest. The middle-aged guest in business suit is Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. As the lift stopped at the 12th floor, he stepped into Baidu CEO Li Yanhong’s […]
Read MoreFrom The L. A. Times: With rising costs and tighter regulations in Dongguan, entrepreneurs start to look elsewhere. Thousands of foreign businesspeople, primarily Taiwanese, helped turn this southern Chinese city into one of the world’s busiest export manufacturing centers. Now, amid rising wage and pension costs, energy shortages, tighter government regulation, traffic bottlenecks and other […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: NOT even 20 years have passed since the apparently unstoppable Japanese economic juggernaut struck fear in the hearts of Americans, and now China has emerged to be seen as the new economic menace threatening the nation’s vital strategic interests. America’s boom in the 1990’s, coupled with Japan’s decline into an […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s ruling Communist Party turned 84 on Friday, trumpeting an increase in young new members and calling itself the world’s largest political party in terms of membership. The party, which has monopolised politics in the world’s most populous nation since 1949, added 2.4 million new members to its ranks last year, bringing its […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via MSNBC.com: As the Chinese summer heats up, civil servants in the capital have been told to dress down to save on energy, state media said Friday. With many cities in China facing severe power shortages, the Beijing city government has given its staff the go ahead to dress casually for internal meetings […]
Read MoreFrom VOA: A priest from China’s underground Catholic church has been released after nearly six years under house arrest. Published reports from the Vatican say Vincent Kong Guocun was freed last month because of poor health. There is no official confirmation from Beijing. The 34-year-old priest, who was from an unapproved diocese in Wenzhou along […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Canada East: Thousands of students rioted at a southern China college to protest fees and other campus issues, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Saturday. More than 4,000 students overturned cars and threw bottles out of windows at a university in Jiujiang, in the southern province of Jiangxi, the Chinese-language Oriental Daily News […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Channelnewsasia.com: Thousands of farmers demonstrated against a land eviction in China’s southern Guangdong province, with clashes erupting after police detained some protestors, a rights group said. Four villagers were rounded up by police on Thursday after the farmers tried to block bulldozers from levelling about 670 hectares of land near Sanshangang village, […]
Read MoreThe Hoover Institution announces that issue No.14 (Spring 2005) of the China Leadership Monitor is now available on-line. This issue includes: Foreign Policy–Thomas J. Christensen Old Problems Trump New Thinking: China’s Security Relations with Taiwan, North Korea, and Japan Recent months have hardly been proud ones for People’s Republic of China (PRC) security policy. On […]
Read MoreFrom The National Interest: Napoleon’s prediction is coming to pass: China’s awakening is moving the world around it. China is building its military capacity at a pace that has Washington’s attention. The added muscle allows Beijing to more aggressively pursue regional territorial interests to an extent that worries the White House. The recent heightening of […]
Read MoreFrom ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER: Russian and Chinese leaders united to define a “new world order” as the European Union (EU) in crisis and the US image was spoilt by “unilateral” policies. A joint statement signed during a meeting at the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao said the only solution […]
Read MoreFrom e-Government Website/Taiwan: China’s semiconductor industry is very likely to pose a serious threat to the domestic industry within three to five years, according to a researcher at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER).
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