From The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: Sagacious commentators have concluded that American policy in Asia generally lacks focus and coherence. I have to agree with that. But what I do not agree with is the notion that the only or best way to achieve overall US policy coherence is […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via People’s Daily Online: The number of overseas students in China hit a record high of 110,844, of which 6,715 were sponsored by the Chinese government, the rest studying at their own expense, sources with the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE) said here Friday. According to the MOE statistics, overseas students from 178 […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily Online: During on-line conversations with members of the public, Zhu Rongxian, deputy of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said 16 million Chinese belong to the “melancholia” group. She put them into three groups – the aged living in endless loneliness, young people tortured by heavy pressure from work or school, and […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Sexual harassment is a growing social problem in China. Experts point out that the sexual harassment of women is directly related to the country’s social and cultural structures. The rising number of cases shows that women still occupy a lower position in society, and are therefore more vulnerable to exploitation and bullying […]
Read MoreTianjin Primary School, from Robin Alexandra via Flickr.
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: China would be “foolish” to let the yuan strengthen, said Steve Hanke, an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University. Failure to do so may lead to a trade war with the U.S., according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “There is no way China is going to abandon” the yuan’s peg to the dollar, […]
Read MoreFrom The Asia Times: Washington’s pressure on China to revalue its currency is strongly supported by countries such as those in the European Union whose currencies are appreciating relative to the US dollar. This is understandable, but is it appropriate? Or is the furor over the yuan simply a distraction that is diverting attention from […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Perhaps the only working class that China’s Communist president, Hu Jintao, is still assisting is the American. I am not referring to the flood of cheap Chinese products that are keeping prices down, although that helps the average household. I refer to Hu’s policy of using what is widely regarded […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: “The more I come to China, the more I become frustrated with the simplistic, naive and stereotyped view of China when I go back to the United States,” said Robert Lawrence Kuhn, author of the book “The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin.”
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: China says it will raise export tariffs on 74 textile product categories from June, in an apparent effort to calm US and EU fears over cheap Chinese goods. The increases range as high as 400%, the official Xinhua news agency said, quoting the finance ministry. Washington and Brussels have expressed concerns about […]
Read MoreOn Danwei, Joel Martinsen questions the results of a recent report by employees of Accoona search engine The search engine Accoona was launched last December in a glitzy ceremony attended by former US president Bill Clinton and chess champion Gary Kasporov. After a scant few months of operation, the company announced that it had uncovered […]
Read MoreIn the New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman writes: Over the last few years China, for its own reasons, has acted as an enabler both of U.S. fiscal irresponsibility and of a return to Nasdaq-style speculative mania, this time in the housing market. Now the U.S. government is finally admitting that there’s a problem – […]
Read MoreFrom Boston Globe : A large gas explosion Thursday in a coal mine in northern China has left at least 51 workers trapped, and their chances of survival were unclear, a mine official said. The accident occurred around 3:20 a.m. at the Nuan’erhe Colliery in Hebei province, when around 70 miners were working underground, said […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: China has blocked a popular website devoted to providing information and support to the nation’s large but closeted homosexual population, the website’s manager and readers said on Wednesday. The Chinese language website www.gaychinese.net, which had 50,000 to 65,000 visits a day mainly from mainland Chinese, had been […]
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