From Reuters, via The Moscow Times: From metals to machinery, China is increasingly relying on exports to find an outlet for excess production pouring out of factories built during a two-year investment frenzy that authorities are now laboring to tame. The consequences of the oversupply will be far-reaching. Within China, inflation is likely to remain […]
Read MorePolluted well in a village, from Greener Beijing Institute.
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Six villagers were killed and eight badly hurt when several hundred allegedly hired thugs descended on a village in northern China and clashed with local residents over a land dispute. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning when five busloads of men ransacked Shengyou village in Hebei province with […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A United Nations envoy says China must take a more humane approach towards North Korean refugees and stop forcing them to return home. Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN spokesman on human rights in North Korea, says the international community should lean on China to uphold its legal obligations. As China is […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Genetically altered rice, which has not been approved for human consumption anywhere in the world, has been found in the food supply in one of China’s biggest cities, Greenpeace charged on Monday. Researchers for the environmentalist group said bags of rice that were purchased in April and May in Guangzhou […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via Financial Express: “When China joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, this signaled to investors that reform in China was going in one direction,” said Tim Condon, chief Asia economist for ING Bank in Singapore, before the figures were released. “Foreigners all of a sudden wanted to invest a lot of money […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The United States will contribute US$35 million over the next three years in a joint effort with China to combat HIV/AIDS. US Global AIDS Coordinator Randall Tobias, who made the announcement at a press conference in Beijing yesterday, said a close partnership between China and the United States was vital for tackling […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A pitched battle erupted that soggy morning between enraged farmers and badly outnumbered police. By the end of the day, high-ranking officials had fled in their black sedans and hundreds of policemen had scattered in panic while farmers destroyed their vehicles. It was a rare triumph for the peasants, rising up […]
Read MoreFrom ChristianNewsToday.com: Reports are emerging that there has been a coordinated crackdown on Christian believers attending house churches in China’s Jilin Province. According to a news release from the China Aid Association (CAA), the crackdown occurred at about 5 a.m. on May 22, while house church leader Zhao Dianru, 58, was praying at his home. […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times, via the Houston Chronicle: In a groundbreaking response to movie piracy, Warner Bros. Entertainment released its latest film on DVD in China the same day it debuted in U.S. theaters… Craig Hoffman, a spokesman for Warner Bros.’ anti-piracy efforts, said the studio is not necessarily looking to apply the same […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: This week Mr. Cai has taken on a new challenge. He is the curator of the Biennale’s first official Chinese pavilion, sponsored in large part by the Chinese government. It is one of some 30 national pavilions in the Biennale, which opens to the public on June 12 and runs […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Rescuers have found 28 more bodies, mostly children, after a flash flood triggered by the worst rains in 200 years hit a packed Chinese school two days ago, killing at least 92 people, state media said on Sunday. The toll could rise further as the official Xinhua news agency said 17 children were […]
Read MoreFarmer Du Wenda’s Flying Saucer, by PENG Yu and SUN Yuan.
Read More“Suddenly Washington is talking tough about China. But what exactly has changed?” Drake Bennett writes on The Boston Globe (free registration required): “China has never been a country you have the luxury of not thinking about,” says Michael O’Hanlon, a foreign policy scholar at the Brookings Institution. Indeed, what now looks like a change of […]
Read MoreFrom SFGate.com: It’s hard to imagine a culture clash more dramatic than the one in Dai Sijie‘s new novel. In “Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch,” Freudian psychoanalysis crashes headlong into Chinese communism, and also bumps up against some slightly creepy “traditional” Chinese attitudes toward sex. The novel is a bawdy comic romp that at times gives […]
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