From Wired Magazine: The manufacturing relationship with China is very close. The aluminum in Shuttle’s PCs comes from Taiwan, which is shipped to China for machining and then back to Taiwan for assembly. Those tight business relationships are beneficial to both countries, but they overlook a potentially disastrous complication: China and Taiwan are technically at […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: A Chinese government threat to close down unregistered websites has convinced just 430,000 to make themselves known at the Information Ministry – suggesting that most of the country’s estimated 4 million web loggers, or bloggers, are choosing to stay out in the cold.
Read MoreFrom TIme Asia: A series of moves largely orchestrated by China has pricked Hong Kong’s democracy bubble. Beijing has become savvier about dealing with the city, seemingly taking into account public opinion even as it increasingly calls the shots. In March, the Chinese leadership nudged Hong Kong’s aloof and deeply unpopular Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa, […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Is Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe trying to set an African record for mass arrests? It certainly looks that way… But the arrests may also be a way for Mugabe to make nice with his new patrons in China. As he tries to cope with the world’s fastest-shrinking economy, he has developed a […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez on Friday engaged in what has become a required ritual for U.S. trade officials visiting China’s capital: He walked down the street and surveyed the plentiful supply of pirated Hollywood movies, finding a DVD copy of the new “Star Wars” film selling for a single dollar. […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: (Subscription required) Even China’s beleaguered banks have their fans in the west. In a new report, McKinsey, the management consultants, tout the superiority of China’s financial system...
Read MoreFrom BBC, via Turkish Weekly: A senior Chinese diplomat who left his job at his country’s consulate-general in Sydney has addressed a rally to commemorate the Tiananmen events. “I feel very unsafe,” he told a crowd of several hundred people in Sydney. “In 16 years, the Chinese government has done nothing for political reform. People […]
Read MoreFrom Epoch Times: Sixteen years ago, Fang Zheng, a senior at the Beijing College of Sports, was struck from behind by an army tank on a street near Tiananmen Square. He was leaving the site with the last crowd of petitioning and...
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Verdi’s “Macbeth” was never like this. Here, too, the story is Shakespeare’s, more or less, but the trappings are vintage Chinese. “The Kingdom of Desire,” which opened at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. on Thursday evening, is an adaptation of “Macbeth” in the style of Beijing opera by the Contemporary Legend […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Policy in Focus, via Asia Times: At first glance, the growing tension between China and Japan seems almost inexplicable. Massive anti-Japanese demonstrations in China over events that took place more than half a century ago? A heated exchange filled with mutual threats over an offshore petroleum field that Western oil companies think is […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Tens of thousands in Hong Kong have held a vigil on the 16th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Protesters sang songs and listened to speeches in China’s only commemoration of events in the capital, Beijing.
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: When Ching Cheong left his wife, Mary Lau, in Hong Kong to cross the Chinese border 45 minutes away, he thought he was scoring a major publishing coup in Asia. Instead, he wound up in Chinese custody charged with espionage. According to Ms. Lau, her husband, a prominent Hong Kong […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Kansas City Star: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeldbluntly challenged China today, saying Beijing must provide more political freedom to its citizens. “Ultimately, China will need to embrace some form of open, representative government if it is to fully achieve the benefits to which its people aspire,” he said. See also: China’s economic growth […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Tight security blanketed China’s capital on Saturday, the 16th anniversary of the bloody end to the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, with the leadership fearful of any protest that could threaten its grip on power. Uniformed and plainclothes police fanned out around the square and dissenters were kept under guard in their homes for […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Sixteen years ago, on the night of June 4 1989, tanks moved into Tiananmen Square in Beijing and began the violent dispersal of the longest-running student demonstration the People’s Republic of China had seen… In the weeks after the violence, untold numbers fled abroad. To this day, others remain in prison. In […]
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