From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, via A Glimpse of the World: If you read the Washington Times, in addition to believing that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction are hidden somewhere in Syria, you might believe that “China’s aggressive strategic nuclear-modernization program” was proceeding apace. [1] If munching on freedom fries at a Heritage […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: If China’s attempt to buy an American oil company does nothing else, it should, at long last, force the United States to decide how it plans to protect its economy, husband its...
Read MoreBlogger Daniel W. Drezner wrote: The constant in U.S. policy towards a rising China for the past three administrations is encapsulated in the current National Security Strategy (PDF): “China has begun to take the road to political openness, permitting many personal freedoms and conducting village-level elections, yet remains strongly committed to national one-party rule by […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: For the Bush administration and even for many members of Congress, China has become almost too big to bash. A day after one of China’s state-controlled oil companies made an unsolicited $18.5 billion bid for Unocal, a California oil and gas company with extensive fields in Asia, administration officials and […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Boston Globe: The death toll in two weeks of flooding in areas throughout China has risen by 31 to at least 567, with roads and rail lines cut in its southern industrial heartland and more rains forecast, the government said Saturday. Another 165 people were missing and more than 2.45 […]
Read MoreFrom the Khaleej Times Online: Seven convicted drug traffickers were put to death in China in the run up to the UN-sponsored International Anti-Drug Day, bringing to 22 the number executed in the past two days, state press said on Saturday… Public sentencing rallies where the convicted are paraded before large crowds were also held […]
Read MoreThe Weekend Australian reports: CHEN Yonglin, the Chinese diplomat who has been trying fruitlessly for a month to defect to Australia, gave a press conference last week. The event was bizarrely under-reported. “Chen provided more detail about his sensational claim that Chinese government agents have been involved in kidnapping in Australia and these, whether they […]
Read MoreNine months ago, I posted the list of 1041 filtered words from a file obtained by a Chinese hacker from a Chinese Internet company Tencent. This list was also cross checked with another two lists CDT independently received from...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry has decided to temporarily close down all domestic web sites that fail to register with local telecommunications authorities before June 30. The decision was announced here on Friday according to China’s two official methods on the management of Internet Information Services and Registration of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The Shaki adult toy factory in Shenzhen is an orgy of production. And though nothing could seem less erotic to the workers, their output is testimony to the growing passion of consumers for China’s latest boom industry: sex. The country now provides 70% of the world’s sex toys. While the bulk of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: At a recent lecture at a Beijing university, students politely lambasted this correspondent – and by association all other foreign journalists – for painting too negative a picture of China. “Why,” asked one questioner, “do you keep writing about the Tiananmen Square incident and the Cultural Revolution? The past is the past. […]
Read MoreFrom the Jakarta Post: China is definitely a dancing country. About six thousands professional dancers live in Beijing alone, mostly absorbed into government supported ballet companies, or the so-called song and dance troupes featuring various folk dances, attached to working units (danwei) of government departments… But for all these dance productions, only very few shed […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: The $18 to $20 billion offer by China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) to secure Unocal, which has oil and gas reserves in Asia, underscores the magnitude of the energy needs of China as it continues its manufacturing juggernaut on the world stage. The bid is part of China’s so-called […]
Read MoreFrom National Geographic Magazine: Viewed from the rocky outcropping of Dondra Head at the southernnmost tip of Sri Lanka, the first sighting of the Ming fleet is a massive shadow on the horizon. As the shadow rises, it breaks into a cloud of tautly ribbed sail, aflame in the tropical sun. With relentless determination, the […]
Read MoreFrom CRI, via China.org: In a Guangzhou-based newspaper’s ranking of Chinese writers born in the 1980s, Li Shasha climbed over big names such as Han Han, Chunshu and Guo Jingming to reach the top of the tree. Other young writers are referred to as “Linglei,” a word coined by Time Magazine to describe China’s rebellious […]
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