From Reuters, via the Boston Globe: The world must adapt to Asia’s rising superpowers China and India and avoid imposing tariffs to protect their economies, a World Bank official said on Wednesday… “The world still thinks of China as an issue that needs to be managed,” he said at a briefing in Singapore. “Attempting to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Last week, China flexed its muscles in the economic and military spheres, setting off a flurry of reactions in Washington that threaten to complicate Sino-American relations and reveal long-term risks for the globalization process.
Read MoreAP has covered the protest letter by thousands of Chinese journalists, which was first posted here: In a bold challenge to rigid government media controls, Chinese journalists have petitioned for the release of a pair of colleagues jailed after aggressive reporting that was believed to have angered local officials. In an open letter, the journalists […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The draft of China’s anti-monopoly law has been finished and is now under revision and deliberation, Li Dongsheng, deputy director general of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said here Tuesday. The Anti-Monopoly Law, once approved, would cover many industries and sectors and focus on issues like regional blockades and administrative monopoly, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, setting fire to cars, looting a supermarket and wounding six police officers, a local shopkeeper and domestic press said on Wednesday. The violence in the eastern city of Chizhou was the latest in a series of protests which the Communist […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Behind the headlines over the past week about big Chinese bids for American companies and China’s debut as a car exporter lies a much broader challenge to a half-century of American economic and political ascendance, a challenge that goes beyond the one that came from Japan nearly a generation ago. […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: A media group in China has filmed a soap opera to be broadcast only on mobile phones. Each of the five episodes, about two bikers vying for the love of a beauti ful woman, will last five minutes. There is very little dialogue and a lot of close-ups of characters striking exaggerated […]
Read MoreDaily life in the old streets of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, from wenxuecity.com/BBSview
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Malaysia Star: The Vatican and the government-backed Chinese Catholic Church have agreed for the first time on the nomination of a bishop in a sign of warming relations after decades of strain. The Chinese-backed Church ordained Joseph Xing Wenzhi as an auxiliary bishop of Shanghai on Tuesday in an appointment that was […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: China is moving into the merger-and-acquisition major leagues, as its star corporations shop for American household names like Unocal, Maytag and IBM, looking for bigger profits through global ambitions…… The CNOOC purchase, if it goes through, will be China’s largest overseas acquisition ever. See also: Now the hard part as CNOOC […]
Read MoreFrom The Times Online: A BLOB of “wrongly” coloured ink, a controversial map of Asia and the seizure of 128 civics textbooks have plunged Japan and China into another round of bitterness and mutual distrust. The latest incident in the troubled relationship between the two neighbours flared up yesterday when it emerged that books on […]
Read MoreFrom YaleGlobal: The internet has played a key role in China’s opening up to the world. But, as Rebecca MacKinnon writes, the Chinese government has cracked down on online freedom of expression. Thanks to deals with multinational corporations, US technology has facilitated Beijing’s campaign to restrict internet discussions on troublesome issues like democracy, human rights, […]
Read MoreIn the Christian Science Monitor, Matthew Clark summarizes recent news coverage of CNOOC’s bid for Unocal: Since the Chinese state-owned oil company CNOOC Ltd. offered to buy oil and gas company Unocal Corp. on Thursday, various news sources have been examining whether or not the deal would threaten US national security. “Congress was building pressure […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: China’s National Audit Office (NAO) found misuse of funds totaling 9.06 billion yuan (about 110 million US dollars) in 38 government departments in 2004. The figure represented six percent of all the funds put under audit, NAO auditor-general Li Jinghua said Tuesday in Beijing when delivering a report on the performance of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese Vice Minister of Information Industry Xie Guohua said here on Tuesday that China now has over 100 million Internet users and that over 30.1 millionusers have broadband Internet services. At the opening ceremony of the 6th China (Beijing) Mobile Telecommunications International Forum, Xie also said over the past years, China’s telephone users […]
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