From The Washington Post: China prepares to head a great manufacturing empire. But empires unravel, usually from within. The forces that will determine which nations will dominate the 21st century may yet favor India’s emerging reach for global power status more than China’s determined grasp for that prize.Kamal Nath, India’s energetic minister of commerce and […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World: The relationship between the United States and China is beset by ambiguity. On the one hand, seven presidents have affirmed the importance of cooperative relations with China and a commitment to a one-China policy. Nevertheless, ambivalence has suddenly re-emerged. Various U.S. officials, members of […]
Read MoreFrom the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: S.H. Chang is a Yiddish specialist at Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan. She may be one of a kind ” after all, you don’t find many Chinese academics in Taiwan studying and writing about Yiddish. A soft-spoken Taiwanese woman in her early 30s who has written about and […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Young Zheng’s first offense was flying into the United States illegally as a 14-year-old boy with phony papers supplied by Chinese human smugglers known as snakeheads. But perhaps his biggest blunder, his lawyers say, was complying with immigration rules after he was apprehended and released, rather than fleeing and working […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: China on Thursday said it will expand aid to rural couples with only one child to promote family planning, but will not ease its three-decade-old one-child policy to limit population growth. China limits most couples to one child, but lets some poor couples have a second child if the first is […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A senior Australian minister said on Thursday that a Chinese diplomatic defector pleading for political asylum in Australia is in no danger of being sent home. Chen Yonglin, a 37-year-old political affairs consul at China’s Sydney consulate, has told Australian authorities he fears for his family’s safety and would rather die than return […]
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph – Calcutta: Comparisons of India’s economic growth with China’s have become the order of the day. Even the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, recently compared the state of India’s economy, especially banking, with that of China’s, pointing out that India’s financial system has been better in some respects. What matters, however, are the […]
Read MoreFrom The Central News Agency, via The Epoch Times: An odd regulation in Beichan village, Dazu county, Chongqing province, China, now requires emigrant women laborers to have a medical exam for “virginity verification” if they desire to receive compensation for land requisition. Five unmarried women are at their wits-end with this regulation now in place. […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Tom and Jerry, beware! China could ban foreign-made cartoons from prime time television once the quantity and quality of domestic cartoons reach a certain level, officials at the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said Wednesday. The country already limits the ratio of foreign-made cartoons to domestic ones to 4:6, […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor : Millions of Chinese high school students can breathe a sigh of relief as the fourth and final day of national college entrance exams comes to a close Thursday. In some Chinese cities, authorities are diverting traffic, suspending construction, and banning street hawking to create a quiet, less stressful environment […]
Read MoreFrom The Chistian Science Monitor: Just days after diplomat Chen Yonglin announced he had applied for asylum in Australia, a second Chinese official Tuesday announced his bid for refuge and backed Mr. Chen’s claims that China has 1,000 spies operating in the country, reports the BBC. The Age of Melbourne, Australia reports that Hao Fengjun […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: China is increasingly the focal point of American policymakers and strategic analysts. Despite former secretary of state Colin Powell’s rather upbeat assessment last summer of the bilateral relationship between the two countries as being the best since president Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, the second George W Bush administration is […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: Claiming that the aim was to stamp out the spread of information which “endangers” the country–likely pornography as much as political criticism–the Chinese authorities introduced the registration requirement in March, and it’s reported that as many as three-quarters of all Chinese-based bloggers whose sites are hosted by domestic telecom providers have signed up. […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe: Chinese, a language most school systems don’t offer until high school, if at all, is becoming popular in elementary classrooms around Greater Boston, as well as elsewhere in the nation. Spanish still reigns as the most popular language, but parents and lawmakers hope that Chinese soon will become commonly taught. School […]
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