In The Slate, Daniel Gross wrote about why Chinese investors are overpaying for struggling American companies: “The China Price” is a phrase owners, workers, and shareholders at American manufacturers have learned to dread. Business Week calls it “the three scariest words in U.S. industry.” The China Price is the absurdly low rate at which a […]
Read MoreIn the Shadow of Gaoligong By Brent E. Huffman Gaoligong Mountain trembled violently. Gaoligong is one of China’s biggest mountains located in Southwestern Yunnan province. It is terrifying to feel a mountain rumble and shake beneath your feet. My partner Chinese reporter Xiaoli Zhou and I were in its shadow as we walked a thin […]
Read MoreSummer in Beijing, via wenxue.com/bbs
Read MoreFor the Project Syndicate, Sin-ming Shaw, formerly a leading Hong Kong investment fund manager and currently visiting scholar at Columbia University wrote: Should Chairman Mao’s huge portrait still hang above the front gate of Tiananmen Square? Should China’s ruling party still call itself Communist? These are not idle questions. Unless and until China’s leaders answer […]
Read MoreIn The Asia Times Online, Rober Sutter, professor of Asian Studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, wrote: Overshadowed by the difficulties facing US policy in the Korean peninsula is the success of relatively quiet but effective US diplomacy in East Asia’s other major hotspot, the Taiwan Strait. Interviews with officials in Washington, […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Japanese patrol boat on exercises off Tokyo A Taiwanese warship visited disputed fishing grounds on Tuesday, after Taiwanese fishermen complained of harassment by Japanese patrol boats. Defence Minister Lee Jye...
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: Reinventing China is a useful and meticulous book that has three major virtues. First, it offers an over-view of a crucial era of Chinese filmmaking, linking the social background, the filming activities and the personal biographies of the directors. Second, it contains intelligent critiques of the films discussed, essentially all the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The State Council, or the Chinese central government, held here Tuesday a special meeting to appoint Donald Tsang, 60, as new Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Premier Wen Jiabao signed the appointment decree at the plenary meeting. According to the Basic law of Hong Kong, Tsang should assume […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Li’s account of what happened that morning has become part of a bitter struggle between the local Communist Party apparatus and a group of discontented farmers who want new leadership for their village. The vote-buying at Li’s pancake stand, the farmers allege, was but one episode in a campaign during which […]
Read MoreTime Magazine has a cover story “China’s New Revolution,” accompanied by several articles and features about China, including: Cover Story: Small World, Big Stakes The U.S. and China are intimately linked–for better or worse. Can we make room for each other? The Last Frontier Almost anything goes these days–but you still can’t oppose the Communist […]
Read MoreIn The New York Times, Jim Yardley reports: It is the sort of horrific case that in many countries would be a national scandal but in China has disappeared into the muffled silence of state censorship. That silence matches the silence at the heart of the case: the fact that students considered a teacher so […]
Read MoreOn Australian Policy Online, scholar John Fitzgerald argues that democracy matters in Australia’s dealings with China: Public discussion since the airing of allegations by First Secretary Chen Yonglin and former security officer Hao Fengjun that a large Chinese spy network operates in Australia has focused on the facts of the case, the reactions of federal […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Australia: Chinese dissident writer Zhang Lin has pleaded innocent to charges of subversion, saying his Internet postings should be protected by freedom of speech. His lawyer, Mo Shaoping has told AFP newsagency, the state’s evidence is based on six articles that Zhang Lin wrote and one interview he gave to the press. Zhang […]
Read MoreFrom Wired Magazine: Twenty-eight floors above the traffic-choked streets of China’s most wired city, blogger and tech entrepreneur Isaac Mao sums up his opinion of Microsoft and its treatment of the Chinese bloggers with one word. “Evil,” says Mao. “Internet users know what’s evil and what’s not evil, and MSN Spaces is an evil thing […]
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