From MSN Money: Microsoft’s new Chinese internet portal has banned the words “democracy” and “freedom” from parts of its website in an apparent effort to avoid offending Beijing’s political censors… Attempts to input words in Chinese such as “democracy” prompted an error message from the site: “This item contains forbidden speech. Please delete the forbidden […]
Read MoreFrom RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY: Since economic reforms began in 1978, China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has expanded at an average rate of over 9 percent per year. However this economic success has been accompanied by a series of energy concerns — insufficient energy supply, heavy reliance on coal despite its negative environmental impact, […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The European Union and China on Friday stepped back from a potentially bitter trade dispute by negotiating a three-year “transitional arrangement” for the import of Chinese textiles to Europe. The two sides agreed to limit the increase in Chinese textile imports in each of the next three years before the trade […]
Read MoreEveryday Life, from fushengdashi, via bbs.163.com
Read MoreFrom The Globalist: We in China have identified the goal for the first 20 years of this century. That is to firmly seize the important window of strategic opportunities to build a moderately prosperous society of a higher standard in an all-round way for the benefits of our over one billion people. By 2020, we […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: In the wake of May 11, when seven ministries and commissions of China issued a document designated to stabilize the house prices, the house prices in Beijing still fluctuated at high levels, which seemed to be amenable to the document, in contrast to the consequential decline of house prices in Shanghai […]
Read MoreFrom The Japan Focus: For twenty years, Prime Ministerial visits to Yasukuni Shrine, have provided a flash point for Japan-China and Japan-South Korea clashes, together with conflicts over territorial and textbook issues. Yasukuni, Japan’s war memorial, is a facility with close association with the Emperor. It preserves the remains of Japan’s military war dead, enshrined […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Official efforts to police cyberspace here comes amid a host of new measures and events that underscore a broad tightening of controls by the central government. A senior Chinese diplomat posted to Australia is seeking asylum in a hotly debated espionage case now underway in Sydney. Chen Yonglin, the diplomat, […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Ah Cheng’s life seems miserable. She is skinny, weighing only 25 kg, and can not stand upright as she has been paralyzed since infancy. But the greatest plague in her life was a abusive husband who treated her like a human punching bag for years. One night in 1995, with a kitchen […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: An unprecedented 100,000 Guangdong Province residents were divorced last year. The figure represents an increase of 33,754 people, or 52.6 per cent, over figures from 2003, according to sources from the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Civil Affairs. Both the number of divorcees and the rate of increase have broken records in the […]
Read MoreABC reports that the lawyer for a former Chinese security bureau official, who has been granted refugee status in Australia, has outlined abuses. He says his client saw abuses perpetrated by members of China’s secret service. The revelation of a third defector comes as two other former officials, diplomat Chen Yonglin and policeman Hao Fengjun, […]
Read MoreChristopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs made following testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs on June 7, 2005: For three decades, seven Administrations have sought to integrate China and its people into the international system. We have succeeded in developing a bipartisan […]
Read MoreCowboy of Shangri-La, by Vivian Fung via Flickr
Read MoreFrom The Washington Times: A highly classified intelligence report produced for the new director of national intelligence concludes that U.S. spy agencies failed to recognize several key military developments in China in the past decade, The Washington Times has learned. The report was created by several current and former intelligence officials and concludes that U.S. […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: I HAVEN’T met a defector for years. Well, at least not an embassy official. But in the late 1980s my then partner, Linda Jaivin, and I were befriended by Wang Qunsheng, a pleasant if rather doctrinaire member of the Chinese embassy staff in Canberra. Wang was always solicitous and perhaps a little […]
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