From 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 […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: After Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill raised the idea of a “technical” interruption of fuel in a meeting in Beijing on April 26, one senior Chinese official, Yang Xiyu, complained that the Americans were focused on too narrow a range of tools for China to influence Pyongyang. Chinese officials […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Around 20% of the world’s hijacked computers sending out spam, attacking websites and hosting unsavoury material are in China, says a report… China already has the second biggest net-using population in the world, even though only 8% of its people go online… But China is not just keeping up on ordinary net […]
Read MoreESWN has translated Cheng Yizhong’s acceptance speech for the 2005 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. The Chinese government barred Cheng from traveling to Dakar, Senegal to accept the award: I want to thank...
Read MoreThis OP-ED was published by Asian Wall Street Journal on 27 April 05: It’s no coincidence that the largest of China’s recent anti-Japanese protests occurred in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and...
Read MoreFrom IHT: Hu’s visit to Russia, which will start Sunday, will be his second since he assumed office in 2003. He has yet to visit the United States as president. This time he will push for “further development of the Chinese-Russian strategic partnership,” said Li Hui, an assistant Chinese foreign minister, at a press briefing […]
Read MoreFishing after work. Shantou, Guangdong Province. by shantoufengguang, via fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom AP: Pat Oliphant will be the first American editorial cartoonist published in China by a Chinese-language newspaper, Universal Press Syndicate said Thursday. Oliphant, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, is expected to begin appearing in The Beijing Youth Daily within the next month, Universal said. The message will be that “this is the […]
Read MoreFrom the China Post: James Soong, chairman of the People First Party, left for Hong Kong en route to Xian yesterday on what he called a tour to build a bridge over the troubled waters. Accompanied by Mrs. Soong and an 80-member delegation, the opposition party leader arrived at the ancient capital of China in […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Gao Zhan was treated like a hero in 2001 when she was sent from a Chinese prison to her family and freedom in Virginia… Now the mother of three children ages 9, 2 and 1, Ms. Gao is being held without bail in an immigration bureau jail in Virginia as […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo News Asia: US President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao expressed concern about North Korea and agreed to pursue six-party talks to end Pyongyang’s nuclear programs, the White House said Speaking by telephone, “the two leaders reiterated their commitment to working together toward a nuclear-free (Korean) peninsula while expressing […]
Read MoreFrom Chinascope: The Southern Metropolitan Daily reports that on the eve of the May 1 International Labor Day holiday, Guangdong province’s Office of Information Supervision, Government News Department, and Office of Public Security jointly issued a “Notice Regarding Stepping Up Strengthening of Regulation of the Dissemination of Harmful Information on the Internet.” According to the […]
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Xinran writes: And I am not joking when I tell you that, even now, many university students believe babies come out of their mothers’ tummy buttons. China started sex education in primary schools in 2002. I was curious to know who the first group of teachers would be. I was told that […]
Read MoreFrom theage.com.au: China will have an impact on Australia 10 times greater than that of Japan 40 years ago, the Future Summit in Melbourne was told. Jonathan West, an Australian who is associate professor of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business Administration, said Australians believed China would buy Australia’s products – food, commodities, energy, raw […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China’s rapid economic growth and steady military modernization are transforming power relations across Asia. In recent weeks, Beijing has reached out to its old rival, New Delhi, courted Taiwanese opposition parties and fanned old grievances against Japan. This comes on top of the long-term deals that Chinese diplomats have been […]
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