From 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 […]
Read MoreFrom The Caijing Magazine (in Chinese), translated by Chi Chung via The Press Interpreter: By the time the Olympics is held in Beijing in 2008, China’s foreign currency reserve might exceed 1 trillion USD. We believe that the highly concentrated flow of capital directed by China’s Foreign Reserve Management Bureau will influence the world financial […]
Read MoreFrom CNN.com: The women have tears in their eyes. I have been with them for barely two hours, I have barely even spoken to them, yet they are saying goodbye to me with tears in their eyes. They sing to me, a hymn in their own language. “May God bless you…’til we meet again.” I […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China is not the first country to ask the US to impose import restrictions on antiquities. The controversy surrounding China’s request stems from the fact that the list of items presented to US customs authorities as imports to be prohibited is far more sweeping than current restrictions on export of cultural items […]
Read MoreFrom the Ottawa Citizen, via Slashdot: Having experienced limits in accessing both news and email, it came as little surprise to find that the search engines were subject to similar restrictions. Searches for articles on circumventing the Chinese filters yielded a long list of results, none of which could be opened. Moreover, inputting politically sensitive […]
Read MoreFrom The John Battelle’s Searchblog: I’ve been watching this issue for a while – nothing tests a corporate maxim such as “Don’t Be Evil” as the China Question. From Paid Content we learn that Google has been granted the right to open an office in mainland China. ……I saw down with Sergey in February to […]
Read MoreThe Economist reviews three books about contemporary China: The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, and Your Job By Oded Shenkar China Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World By Ted C. Fishman and Foreign Babes in Beijing: […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Express: A Chinese company has launched a new service to break the internet addiction of youngsters in the northwest city of Xi’an. Yanghu Adolescent Quality Development Company Ltd, the first private firm set up specifically to help net-addicted youth, registered in March 2005 will begin operation later this month. The company claims to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Thousands of police officers in Beijing and Shanghai stood guard on Wednesday in a show of force to ensure that one of China’s most sensitive political anniversaries did not erupt into a new wave of angry protests against Japan. The May 4 anniversary, a pivotal date in defining modern Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom RIA Novosti – Opinion & analysis: Russian oil companies’ plans to export record levels of oil to China may have to be seriously rethought, as terminals in western Siberia will struggle to cope with the Russian-Chinese contracts. Indeed, plans to increase the capacity of oil loading terminals are still being only discussed, so it […]
Read MoreFrom The Industry Standard: China will have more broadband Internet access subscribers than the U.S. by the end of the year, if the number of subscribers to broadband Internet access services continues to grow at current rates, according to figures published Monday by market analyst Point Topic Ltd. of London. At the end of December, […]
Read MoreFrom The Japan Times Online: China closed a chapter in its history this week with the visit to the mainland by Mr. Lien Chan, the head of Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT), or Nationalist Party. Mr. Lien’s trip was the first by a KMT leader since Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in 1949, abandoning the country to […]
Read MoreFrom The Slate: The head of Taiwan’s opposition party returned on Tuesday from an eight-day visit to mainland China. Relations between the two countries may be on the mend; after the visit, China made a peace offering to the island in the form of two giant pandas. But reports about the possible rapprochement have been […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Recently, some US senators have blamed China for the Sino-US trade deficit hitting a new high last year, and proposed placing a 27.5% tariff on all Chinese products if China does not revalue the yuan. They believe that if China appreciated its currency, the US deficit problem would be solved. But […]
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