From the Standard: Few Westerners have heard of the Uygurs, a proud, Turkic-speaking people descended from nomads, who today scratch out a living in the rugged mountains and deserts of landlocked Xinjiang province. But supporters see them as a prime example of a beleaguered population caught in the crunch between the vaunted worldwide drive for […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Here in a bleak stretch of eastern China, Mr. Li, 40, spent two years in a prison called Shandong No. 2 Labor Re-education Camp. Mr. Li, who spoke on condition that only his surname be used, and other...
Read MoreFrom smh.com.au (sub required): Across town at investment bank Morgan Stanley, its China-watching economist Andy Xie also sees an economic machine going at high speed towards a crash, similar to the meltdown that hit Asian economies in 1997. “China is an export and investment-driven model and the connection between exports and investment is basically that […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for sending following article to CDT: In “Research on the Overall Population and Female Fertility in the Chinese Mainland During the Late Twentieth Century” (article translated below) Liang Zhongtang of the Shanxi Province People’s Government Economic Research Center in the 5/2003 issue of Shengcanli Yanjiju [Productivity Research] pp. 147 […]
Read MoreFrom allheadlinenews.com: Roughly 20% of the world’s hijacked computers sending out spam are in China. It is believed that the amount of spam, internet crime, and inappropriate material will continue to increase as the Chinese government continues to relax their control over the net. China already has the second biggest net-using population in the world, […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (subscription required.): Mr Ban told his Chinese counterpart Friday that South Korea was “increasingly concerned” about the lack of progress in the talks and asked Beijing to do more to coax Pyongyang back to the talks. “We requested a more proactive, constructive role by the Chinese government to resolve this situation […]
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: The coal spike has ravaged much of China’s power industry, with 85 percent of the country’s plants now losing money, according to the official China Daily. A new crop of foreign investors now scours China for power plants at distressed prices. In much of the rest of the world, including the United […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: Beijing plans to spend more than 234 million yuan (28.1 million US dollars) this year to reduce the effects of sandstorms and to bring them under control at the source, the municipal government said. Under the city’s sandstorm source treatment project, the city will handle and control the sources of sandstorms […]
Read MoreFrom the Times: The plot is as horrifying as it is simple. One hundred of China’s most talented junior swimmers are gathered together for a test day in Beijing in late 2001 after the city won the right to stage the 2008 Games. Fifty are chosen to remain there with the national team under the […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: China’s burgeoning Internet industry is increasingly being challenged by U.S. competitors including Yahoo, Google and eBay. This emphasis on China, part of a broad trend by U.S. technology companies, will be a major topic of discussion at the annual Hua Yan Science & Technology conference today in Santa Clara… At […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Today: Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan on Saturday expressed strong concern over Japan’s recent actions and comments over Taiwan, and warned Tokyo not to use the island as a “political card” against Beijing, a Japanese lawmaker said. Taku Yamasaki, a legislator and special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, told a press […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Today: Japan and China agreed Saturday to launch a joint study on their history, Japanese government officials said. The agreement was concluded in a meeting between Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing on the sidelines of Asia-Europe foreign ministerial talks in Kyoto. While Machimura proposed that they decide concretely […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited, via China National News: China’s foreign minister again refused to apologize to Tokyo on Saturday for anti-Japan protests last month that damaged Japanese diplomatic compounds and businesses, but the sides agreed to pursue talks on compensating Tokyo for the damages, a Japanese official said. Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and his Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: President Chen Shui-bian (Èô≥Ê∞¥ÊâÅ) last night stressed that he had not altered his basic stance on upholding Taiwan’s national sovereignty and dignity, amid the recent controversy triggered by opposition party leaders’ trips to China… Noting that China is well known for its “united front” tactics against Taiwan — which aim to […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Taiwan’s success is also China’s. No one knows for sure how much of China’s exports in information and communications hardware are made in Taiwanese-owned factories, but the estimates run from 40% to 80%. As many as 1 million Taiwanese live and work on the mainland… Impressive stuff. Yet for many people around […]
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