From Asia Times: China is a country where land is at a premium, even more so in the fastest-growing coastal areas. So having a home built on a land area of between three and five hundred square meters in a landscaped compound with lakes, ponds and 24 hour security, is proof of serious money. But […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: “Tan Dun Visual Music 2005” opened last month at the Shanghai Gallery of Art. Not many composers sell art. But Mr. Tan does. The solo exhibition features a collection of his old pianos (deconstructed and reconstructed by the composer), multimedia installations and nearly a dozen prints and manuscripts, including the […]
Read MoreFrom NorthJersey.com: As the situation stands now, any credibility the government gleaned from Marxism, Maoism or communism has long since faded, and the Communist Party remains in power only by dint of its ability to deliver economic well-being to the masses. Its chosen delivery mechanisms are state-owned enterprises – government-run companies that directly employ more […]
Read MoreFrom The Telegraph: the European Union yesterday handed a long list of human rights demands in the two sides’ highest level meeting since plans for a quick end to the EU’s arms embargo collapsed. The EU said it was up to China to “improve the climate” and allow the arms ban, imposed after the 1989 […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: China should release those of its citizens imprisoned since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown if it wants the European Union to end its arms ban, a senior EU delegation told their hosts in Beijing yesterday. The request for an amnesty, one of four areas in which the EU is seeking better human […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: After China joined the UN in 1971, it adamantly opposed peacekeeping operations (PKO) and refused to contribute money or resources to any operations. Adhering to a strict definition of sovereignty and non-interference, China rejected international interventions that supposedly violated their notions of peaceful co-existence and potentially invited international scrutiny […]
Read MoreFrom Times Online: after three premature obituaries, Zhang’s death was as mysterious as his final hours. Xinhua gave no explanation for why it had waited since April 21 to make public Mr Zhang‘s death. It described him as a culprit in Mrs Jiang‘s counter-revolutionary clique and said he had been on medical parole since January […]
Read MoreFrom Le Monde diplomatique: China first became involved in Africa during the cold war, when it made friends and did business in parts of the world overlooked by the West and the Soviet Union. Its investment is paying off now in oil and raw material imports and markets for manufactured goods.
Read MoreMusician in a park, Beijing, from Impressions from Beijing on Ziegler & Partner GmbH.
Read MoreFrom The International Herald: Microsoft said on Wednesday that it would form a joint venture with Shanghai Alliance Investment and make its first acquisition in China to start an MSN Internet and mobile phone software business there. The joint venture, Shanghai MSN Network Communications Technology, will deliver content and services, Microsoft said. Microsoft also said […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: The US would like China’s currency to reflect its economic strength Conflicting statements about policy over China’s currency, the yuan, have thrown investors into confusion. The People’s Daily newspaper, the mouthpiece of the state, said markets would revalue the yuan next week – but China’s central bank denied the report.
Read MoreIn Japan Focus, Geremie Barme writes about the historical antecedents to the recent anti-Japan protests: One could say there is a certain pattern of the past discernable in the way the authorities have run these protests. We have long seen in China political campaigns and mass movements that follow a similar pattern or political logic… […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Inside the hallowed cedar halls of this city’s vast Yasukuni Shrine, 168 Japanese lawmakers and aides gathered on Friday, clapping their hands twice in traditional reverence to the deified souls of Japan’s fallen warriors. Joined by almost 50,000 other citizens who attended the shrine’s annual spring celebration this week, many of […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Kuomintang (KMT) chairman Lien Chan surprised everybody in Taiwan and the world with his bold journey for peace in China. His stroke of political brilliance to initiate the dialogue between China and Taiwan has become a critical turning point for the future of China. Lien’s declaration of “we can grasp the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: The European Union urged China on Wednesday to free Tiananmen dissidents and ratify a U.N. pact on civil and political rights so as to create a climate to allow it to end an arms embargo. China said the linkage was unreasonable. On a two-day trip to mark 30 years of China-EU relations, External […]
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