From The Air Cargo World: Investment in China is keeping up a strong pace but a few warning signs are giving cargo operators reason to think twice Investment and operators keep pouring into China but there is growing unease among those already in the country that the high-flying economy may presage a hard landing. Cargo […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: Guangdong Dongguan’s toy industry, closely co-operating with Hong Kong, has now expanded to include more than four thousand factories manufacturing toys, taking up half the market share of all of China’s toy manufacturers and has become the world’s largest toy producing city. China is the world’s biggest toy manufacturer and exporter, […]
Read MoreFrom The Weekend Standard: Last year, during the anxious time before the annual session of Chinese Parliament, censors banned two bestsellers on sensitive topics. Chinese Peasants: A Study by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao won the 2004 Letter Ulysses Award for its study of rural hardship; The Past is Not Like Smoke by Zhang Yihuoone […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail : The Chinese government is desperately trying to control the problem. It executes more officials for corruption offences than the rest of the world combined. At least 25 officials have been given the death penalty for accepting bribes or kickbacks in the past four years. More than 846,000 Communist Party […]
Read MoreCity lights over the river, from blogger.com.
Read MoreBelow is an article I wrote for Dangerous Assignments, the magazine of the Committee to Protect Journalists: ____________ The Rise of Rights? In Guangzhou case, weiquan advocates find success is tempered by harsh reality. Sun...
Read MoreFrom The Independent: A mass murderer, womaniser, liar and drug baron: a book by the bestselling author Jung Chang paints an horrific portrait of the erstwhile hero of the Chinese revolution On the cover of Mao: the Unknown Story is a tiny photograph of the Chairman. It is wrinkled and tattered. Until Mao Tse-tung‘s death […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune, via A Glimpse of the World: Something rare happened in recent weeks with the unprecedented back-to-back visits to China of two of Taiwan’s most prominent opposition politicians. Suddenly China, which has often shown all the subtlety of a jackhammer operator in its approach toward Taiwan, which it regards as a […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post, via A Glimpse of the World: China Makes Its Move: “The storm center of the world has shifted to China,” Secretary of State John Hay said in 1899. “Whoever understands that mighty Empire has a key to world politics for the next five hundred years.” Well, everything is different and nothing […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: Besides Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, and most recently Indonesia and East Timor have become genuine democracies. Throughout the region, democratic transformation has been underpinned by strong economic growth, ironically driven today by Chinese capitalism. One would have been foolhardy to predict […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A group of U.S. lawmakers banded together on Friday to focus congressional attention on how China’s rise affects the United States in areas ranging from energy demand to trade to military spending. Randy Forbes, a Virginia Republican, said he and eight members of the House of Representatives started the bipartisan Congressional China Caucus […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Given the current fascination with all things Chinese, its language naturally comes to mind as possible substitute for English when Asians are dealing with each other… But things are not so simple. China’s ideographic writing is hard enough for the Chinese, let alone for others. Even countries most subject to […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times, via Asia Media: Explanations abound for the fevered anti-Japanese protests that broke out across China last month. From the Chinese perspective, of course, the blame falls on the Japanese government for its reluctance to apologize for the crimes Japan committed in World War II. But the Chinese media also played an […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: June 4 marks the 16th anniversary of China’s bloody repression of pro-democracy protests on Tiananmen Square. The legacy of the massacre has been put sharply in focus by the current debate over lifting the arms embargo imposed by the European Union in response to that event. At stake in the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Two Henan residents have filed a lawsuit against the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau in Guangdong Province on April 15 after posters were displayed in public areas suggesting Henan migrants were involved in crime. The posters said anyone who reported “Henan racketeering gangs,” to the local police would be rewarded, even though police officers […]
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