From BBC NEWS: Beijing has moved to stem anti-Japan rallies after having been happy to let them rage through several Chinese cities last month. It has shut down nationalist websites, detained dissidents and sent out text messages warning against illegal demonstrations.
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Beijing’s Tiananmen Square was closed to the public on Wednesday for a government-organised coming-of-age ceremony for 18 year olds, state media reported, an apparent attempt to thwart any anti-Japanese protests. China has been nervous about a possible resurgence of anti-Japanese sentiment after three weekends of nationwide protests last month. Wednesday marks the 86th […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: China’s banking system seems to be suffering from kleptomania. Zhang Enzhao, chairman of state-owned China Construction Bank Corp., resigned in March after bribery allegations showed up in U.S. court documents. In the past five months two other big state lenders — Bank of China and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: China’s 68 million Communist Party members have spent the past few months attending self-criticism meetings to address their personal and professional shortcomings as part of Party chief and China’s President Hu Jintao’s “Education Campaign of Maintaining Party Members’ Advanced Nature.” But the exercise isn’t taken as seriously as it was during the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters.com: China says it is also willing to talk to Chen as long as he accepts the 1992 consensus, but that would be a political U-turn unacceptable to his core pro-independence supporters. Despite their sharply differing views, Soong and Chen signed a 10-point consensus on cross-strait ties in February that the PFP chairman said […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Since last year, the Guangzhou-centered Pearl River Delta (PRD), a dominant economic locomotive in China and a magnet for migrant workers in outlying regions, has been reporting a severe shortage of workers. Encouraged by the official ballyhoo of a steep pay rise, many have flocked into the region to try their luck. […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Chinese hackers have been blamed for a wave of attacks on South Korean government computer systems, the latest in a series of internet security breaches involving China. The US, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama are among other victims of suspected Chinese cyber sabotage over recent years. Nearly 300 South Korean government […]
Read MoreFrom Project Syndicate, via KUWAITTIMES.NET: Is a new alignment between India and China rising to balance America’s global power? Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao recently completed a four-day visit to India during which 11 agreements were signed, including a comprehensive five-year strategic cooperation pact. In addition, Wen announced that China would support India’s bid for a […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: Could there be something between the timing of the anti-Japanese protests and the mainland visits by Taiwanese opposition leaders? It is probably too early to say, but there are many reasons to believe that profound shifts are under way in Sino-Japanese and cross-strait […]
Read MoreChinese journalists covering Lien Chan’s visit in Nanjing, from xiasanlu via tom.com
Read MoreThis is The Christian Science Monitor’s commentary, from csmonitor.com: China’s autocrats can’t seem to accept that Taiwan is a democracy in which the people have voted for Mr. Chen twice, and against Mr. Lien. They also must think they can act kindly toward Taiwanese politicians they favor while aiming hundreds of missiles at the island […]
Read MoreThe Long March Project, originally launched in 2002, has begun a new phase: May 1, 2005, led by Long March Chief Curator Lu Jie, the Long March team arrived at the Beijing’s West Train Station to send off artist Qin Ga. Three years prior, as the Long March team daily made its way forward on […]
Read MoreFrom CNN.com: On May 4 in 1919, students in Beijing launched a nationwide movement against imperialism and a government that had failed to stand up to the West and Japan. More than 80 years later, a new generation in China is...
Read MoreIn the new issue of the New Yorker, John Updike reviews two new Chinese novels, “My Life as Emperor,” by Su Tong and “Big Breasts & Wide Hips,” by Mo Yan: China, experts agree, is the nation of the future; its immense population, its acrobatic blend of totalitarian controls and booming fre enterprise, and the […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (subscription required): When western businessmen in China and other emerging Asian markets meet, the talk soon turns to pirates. Not the seafaring kind but the armies of imitators, counterfeiters, criminal syndicates and corrupt officials who profit by violating the rights of intellectual property owners. Almost every company has a story of […]
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