From Newsday: Reconciling the U.S. sense of threat with the East Asians’ paramount concern for stability won’t be easy. As things stand now, China’s rejection of U.S. pleas puts an effective end to U.S. plans to bring North Korea’s weapons program up for sanction at the UN Security Council, where China is certain to wield […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese police have beaten and detained associates of exiled ethnic Uighur dissident Rebiya Kadeer, raided her business and tried to arrest one of her sons in an apparent reprisal campaign, a rights group said. Kadeer, a Muslim, was one of China’s highest profile political prisoners until she was freed in March ahead of […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (subscription required): Amid great media hoopla surrounding the visits of two top Taiwanese opposition leaders to mainland China in recent weeks a simple truth has been forgotten. It took both leaders, Lien Chan and James Soong, the better part of a working day to complete a journey that could have been […]
Read MoreFrom expressIndia.com: Over 60 per cent of Chinese young people growing up without siblings say they felt miserable and lonely in their childhood, a survey has found. About 46 per cent of them, who were born in the 1980s said that they would prefer to have two children themselves. China, the world’s most populous nation, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The New York Times: Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian‘s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won an election on Saturday, securing a fresh mandate to pursue an independence-leaning policy toward rival China. Although the National Assembly poll was held for the sole purpose of ratifying constitutional reforms already approved by parliament, relations with China dominated […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: We in the west – despite our ritualistic advocacy of democracy – do appreciate the decision by Beijing officials to clamp down on the anti-Japan protests, clear out the streets, order people to leave the incendiary anti-Tokyo chat rooms, and cease acting as […]
Read MoreFrom The World Peace Herald: China’s Communist Party department dealing with Taiwan announced several new inducements Friday to lure the breakaway island back to the mainland. Chen Yunlin, director of the Central Committee’s Taiwan Work Office pledged to make it easier for Taiwanese to work, study and travel in China.
Read MoreFrom the Telegraph: Taiwanese officials have said the gift of two giant pandas offered by China as part of a diplomatic charm offensive will be refused. Taiwan fears acceptance would be seen as acknowledging Beijing’s claim that Taiwan is part of China. The officials said that sending the pandas would breach the 1963 Convention on […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Sun Times: McDonald’s plans to open 100 new restaurants in China this year, including its first drive-through there, executives said at the company’s annual meeting Wednesday. The drive-through will be located in Shenzhen.
Read MoreThe Connection on WBUR Boston had a program today focusing on the debate over China’s currency valuation: Some in Congress are leaning on China to raise the value of its currency — to stop linking it to the U.S. Dollar. They say this move will help stop U.S. job losses. But are Americans also ready […]
Read MoreBuilding workers on street near Silk Workshops in Wuxi, from chinadan.com
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, a review of “Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China” (Rachel DeWoskin) Ms. DeWoskin is still trying to figure out what happened. Why did the Chinese adore a barely competent nonactress whose voice was dubbed to make her Mandarin sound even worse that it was? Why […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China is not only a place where fortunes are being made, but increasingly a place where they are being given away, as the new wealthy become the philanthropists of today and tomorrow. A double – possibly...
Read MoreFrom ESWN: Here is a photo of a public trial being held at the Middle-level Number 1 People’s Court in the city of Hofei in Anhui province.¬† There are eleven defendants altogether.¬† They are being accused of being part of a criminal enterprise based upon an Internet forum… So what exactly were they doing that […]
Read MoreFrom the LA Times: China holds the whip hand on North Korea. If the Chinese agreed to halt food and oil shipments to Pyongyang unless Kim Jong Il’s regime dismantled its nuclear weapons program, they could bring about the end of the program. But Beijing seems more worried about bolstering its place in the international […]
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