From The LA Times (Sub required): Two years after coming to power, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have staked out a two-pronged strategy for political control: projecting a kinder, gentler image while cracking down on those disseminating unauthorized information. The news this week that a prominent Hong Kong journalist had been detained […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: In Australia, as elsewhere in the West, the term “Chinese takeaway” now has more sinister connections. Senior government sources tell The Australian that the number of Chinese agents in Australia has increased sharply during the past decade. See also: Chinese spooks: A growing Red menace.
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Taipei Times: China described a resolution by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan to expand the UN Security Council — and hopefully give them permanent seats — as “dangerous” and hinted it would use its veto power if necessary to block final approval. The language used by China’s UN ambassador, Wang Guangya […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited: Communist party veteran says Tiananmen students were right to demand more democracy and less corruption. His giant portrait still hangs in pride of place over the entrance to the Forbidden City, his embalmed body lies in a mausoleum in the middle of Tiananmen Square, and his visage is the only one […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Depending on one’s geostrategic outlook, the dream, or nightmare, of a China-India axis – complete with 2.4 billion people – is a step closer with the recent announcement that the two countries will for the first time ever hold joint military maneuvers. The head of the Indian army, General Joginder Jaswant […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A sociologist at China’s top government think-tank and a colleague have been detained on suspicion of leaking state secrets, three independent sources said on Thursday amid a series of recent high-profile detentions. Lu Jianhua, 45, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), was taken into custody by agents of the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily,via Xinhua: Students in China maybe sick of endless exams but it is the state of their general health that worries doctors. Latest figures show three out of four Beijing students due to take the national college entrance exam next week have sight problems – while only 9 per cent of Guangzhou students […]
Read MoreFrom The EastSouthWestNorth blog: The appearance of an article in a mainland Chinese newspaper has caused quite a stir. Here are the factors that made this simple event so significant. First, the newspaper is the Chinese Youth...
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The substantial revaluation of China’s currency being demanded by Washington to cut the mainland’s swelling exports would have a negligible impact on the US current account deficit, according to a new report. The report, from the Asian Development Bank, says a 10 or 20 per cent revaluation of the renminbi against […]
Read MoreFrom China Business Infocenter: Thankfully Go West may soon finally go away. The long running and largely useless campaign to drive investment to the remoter western fringes of the country has been a disaster and it now seems that Beijing feels ready to (sort of) admit that, take a deep breath and move on. Go […]
Read MoreFrom The Boston Globe: American pressure on Beijing to revalue the yuan is now dominating the news, but China is following Japan as a manifestation of a much bigger problem. Globalization is broken. As now structured, it is undermining U.S. productive capability and becoming unsustainable. Without fundamental change in the rules of globalization, any conceivable […]
Read MoreFrom Spectrum online: As China’s Internet gets a much-needed makeover, will the new network promote freedom or curtail it? China’s open-market reforms, begun a quarter-century ago, launched an unprecedented social...
Read MoreFrom The STUFF – New Zealand’s leading news and information website: Prime Minister Helen Clark became a victim of China’s censorship regime when she did an interview on international broadcaster CNN today. Miss Clark was doing an interview summarising her talks with China’s political leaders when the CNN interviewer asked her about human rights in […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Sun2Surf: Beijing police have levelled an accusation of fraud against a Chinese researcher for the New York Times who was arrested last year on a charge of leaking state secrets to foreigners, his lawyer said on Wednesday. The new accusation against Zhao Yan means police can hold him for another seven months […]
Read MoreFrom AP. via Macleans.ca: China called a resolution by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan to expand the UN Security Council – and hopefully give them permanent seats – “dangerous” and hinted it would use its veto power if necessary to block final approval. The language used by China’s UN Ambassador Wang Guangya appeared to be […]
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