From the New York Times: In this desert oasis where East once met West and that is home to one of the world’s greatest shrines to Buddhism, the water is disappearing. Crescent Lake has dropped more than 25 feet in the last three decades while the underground water table elsewhere in the area has fallen […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: China has whipped together a bunch of heavyweights from the country’s economic and military sectors to intensify regulation and guidance of the country’s fragmented energy industry. A leading group headed by Premier Wen Jiabao has been established by the State Council to oversee macro leadership of the sector. Previous energy-regulating administrations […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: One is the 1,700-year-old Dachang Town in Chongqing Municipality, which will be submerged next year by rising waters from the Three Gorges dam project. The other will be a replica – with buildings dismantled and rebuilt on a new site 5 kilometres away and uphill, literally transplanted. And with regared to two residents […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Globe and Mail: U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow predicted yesterday that China will give in to U.S. pressure within months for it to adopt a more flexible currency to tamp down calls for protectionist trade action. See also “China: Currency Reforms to Remain Gradual” from the AP.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The Chinese are coming. More than 20 years after China reopened to the world for business, the world’s most populous nation has stepped onto the world’s high-tech stage with a string of recent acquisitions and moves into Western Europe and North America. The multibillion-dollar global expansion marks a coming of age for a […]
Read MoreFrom The Wired News: Microsoft launched MSN China, a Chinese-language web portal, to tap deeper into the world’s second-largest internet market. The portal will be run through Shanghai MSN, a joint venture Microsoft established with government-operated Chinese firm Shanghai Alliance.
Read MoreFrom The Straits Times, via Asia Media: Chinese state media kept up the criticism of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday with editorials attacking his comments on a controversial war shrine. The People’s Daily, the main Communist Party newspaper, labelled Mr Koizumi’s reasons for visiting the Yasukuni shrine, which honours 14 Class A war criminals […]
Read MoreFromn KIROTV.com: Here Come Chinese CarsChina Aims To Be A Big Auto Exporter, With Help From Big Names Manufacturing In The Country. Detroit Isn’t Looking In Its Rearview Mirror — Yet Audacious, gutsy, and maybe a little nutty — how else to describe the push by New York auto entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin and China’s Chery […]
Read MoreFrom OpenDemocracy: In December 1993, talking to Time magazine, technologist and civil libertarian John Gilmore created one of the first verses in internet lore: “The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it”. But according to a report published by George Soros’s Open Net Initiative (ONI), the Chinese government are doing a great job […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Drugs and drug-related crime in China are still a blot on the Chinese landscape despite a people’s war waged against it a year ago. In the first four months of the year, China arrested 19,000 people responsible for 24,000 drug-related criminal cases, said a senior official with the office of the National […]
Read MorePublic Radio International and the BBC have teamed up to produce a special radio program called “China’s World.” The first installment, “Partnering with the Giant,” examines China’s...
Read MoreThe Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief has published a special issue on China and the Middle East. From the Editor: Jamestown is proud to present this special issue of China Brief analyzing China’s deepening ties to the Middle East. In recent years, Beijing has looked to the Gulf region to meet its soaring energy demand. This […]
Read MoreFrom Siliconindia.com: The success of China influenced India to give up its protectionists trade policies and showed that abandoning the old hostility to globalization could lead to prosperity, said a RAND Corporation analyst. China’s globalization success has profoundly influenced its neighbors. India has learned from China the advantages of a more open economy, William H. […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The Schumer-Graham proposal is one of Washington’s loudest shots yet in the increasingly tense Sino-American trade relations. The threat, of course, is that a deterioration in these relations could erupt into a full-on trade war, with each side imposing protectionist import restrictions on the other. If the actions of the past few […]
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