From AP: China said Tuesday it is sincere in its efforts to establish formal relations with the Vatican after a 50-year break, but Beijing insisted the Holy See consider Taiwan a part of China. Both China and the Vatican have expressed interest in recent weeks in forming diplomatic relations. China forced its Roman Catholics to […]
Read MoreIn the Korea Herald, Ma Jian writes: Since April 15 of this year, the Golden Shield’s advanced science and technology has been monitoring every thought and action of those Chinese people who use the Internet. But what Orwell failed to predict is that China’s government has accomplished this with the help of Western democracies. Today, […]
Read MoreAccoona employees Ira Machefsky and John Fernandez have written: The list of top 25 searches on Accoona’s Chinese search engine has just been released. This list, which represents the top 25 non-adult (ie, not sexually oriented) searches for the month of February 2005, shows that Chinese searchers are a much more serious and business-oriented group […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Forbes.com: China will take its time in preparing to loosen controls on its currency, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Tuesday, dismissing speculation that a revaluation of the yuan could come soon. “We are taking time to do the preparation work. We will not come out with any measures hastily,” Zhou said […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The most important person in the world right now may be Hu Jintao, and we’re beginning to get a better sense of what kind of a leader he is: disappointing… Mr. Hu appears to be an intuitive authoritarian who believes in augmenting the tools of repression, not easing them. Most […]
Read MoreFrom CNN: Chinese President Hu Jintao says China aims to lift the size of its economy to $4 trillion by 2020 — effectively quadrupling its gross domestic product of five years ago. A $4 trillion economy would give China’s 1.3 billion people a per capita income of $3000 by 2020, compared with about $1230 now.
Read MoreFebruary 2nd Festival, in Kushui, Gansu Province, from fuguanglveying via fengniao.com.
Read MoreFrom the Times: IN THE far west of China, the Uighur minority shares a language, a religion and a culture with the Muslims of Uzbekistan. They also both chafe under authoritarian governments that do not hesitate to use force to suppress them. But whereas the latest protests by Muslims in Uzbekistan’s restive Ferghana Valley ended […]
Read MoreFrom National Geographic News: According to Vital Signs 2005“a new report by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental nonprofit”China is now driving the consumption and production of almost everything, threatening to deplete the world’s resources… China is in the middle of the largest rural migration in human history, with millions of its people leaving […]
Read MoreFrom The Strategy Page: China and America disagree on how to deal with North Korea. The Chinese prefer to have a working dictatorship in North Korea, and are not too concerned about the North Korean military or North Korean nuclear weapons. What China fears the most is a collapse of the communist government in North […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.co.uk: China will send a veteran bureaucrat known as a shrewd fixer to Japan on Tuesday in a bid to improve strained relations and to keep trade powering along between the Asian economic giants. Vice Premier Wu Yi, the most senior Chinese official to visit Japan since 2003, has handled crises ranging from foreign […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: Hardly a month after India and China signed a landmark agreement to settle their border dispute, a Chinese Army patrol has intruded deep into Indian territory and stayed there for close to 24 hours before withdrawing last week. The border violation took place in Asafila area of the Upper Subansiri […]
Read MoreESWN has translated portions of a document from the Guangdong Province Department of Telecommunications outlining self-censorship guidelines for BBS operators. The original document is here. From ESWN’s commentary: This type of delegation of the regular daily censorship duties should not be surprising.¬† It also occurs in the United States and elsewhere.¬† For example, if someone […]
Read MoreFrom Fortune Magazine: The proximate cause of so much hooey was the end of global textile and apparel quotas Jan. 1. In a rational world the results wouldn’t have surprised anyone. The elimination of quotas had been scheduled years in advance. The productivity of Chinese factories was not exactly a secret, and the deals for […]
Read MoreFrom The China Economic Net: The Seventh China Franchise Convention and Exhibition has kicked off in Beijing. The event attracted over ten thousand visitors on the first day. However Experts warn that investors should be cautious when choosing to invest in franchise stores. More than 180 domestic and overseas franchise brands are attending the exhibition. […]
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