In the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief (via Asia Media), Willy Lam writes: It is not surprising that President Hu Jintao and his colleagues decided in mid-April to cool down anti-Japanese protests: a body blow has been dealt to China’s reputation as a responsible member of the global community. The fact that the Chinese Communist Party […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Philippine communist rebels, turning from allies to critics of China, said on Tuesday that Beijing’s shift to a capitalist economy had undermined some revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia. The 8,000-member New People’s Army (NPA), which drew ideological inspiration from China’s first generation of communist leaders, has been waging a violent guerrilla war for […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: As the physical damage caused by a month-long series of anti-Japanese demonstrations is methodically being repaired across China, there are strong indications that Japanese sentiment about the Middle Kingdom will not be so easily mended. The violent eruption of anger directed against Tokyo appears to have seriously harmed Japanese perceptions of […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via USA Today: China reacted coolly to an invitation Tuesday by Taiwan’s leader for President Hu Jintao to visit the island, rejecting any official contact until the Taiwanese ruling party drops a clause in its constitution calling for formal independence. The lukewarm response came hours after Beijing offered a pair of giant pandas […]
Read MoreFrom the Associate Press, via ABC News: Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian on Monday offered peace talks with Beijing, apparently seeking to regain the high ground from a political rival who is on a headline-grabbing visit to China. On Tuesday, China announced it was giving a pair of giant pandas to the people of Taiwan plus […]
Read MoreFrom AP: A Chinese editor whose newspaper broke stories about China’s SARS outbreak and a fatal police beating has been ordered not to attend a ceremony to accept a United Nations press freedom award, a news report said Monday. Cheng Yizhong, former editor-in-chief of the Southern Metropolis News in China’s southern province of Guangdong, was […]
Read MoreFrom Yale Global Online: As China’s center for foreign investment and cosmopolitan culture, Shanghai provides an intriguing case study on the intersection of globalism and nationalism, writes James Farrer. During the recent wave of anti-Japanese protests, demonstrators’ voices alternated between an intensely nationalist rhetoric and a more subdued, moderate internationalism. And as for government reaction […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: Surging anti-Japan sentiment, which has plunged relations between Asia’s two leading powers into crisis, has been fanned in part by official propaganda and hotheaded Chinese youth who hurl stones into Japan’s diplomatic compounds. But pressure on Japan to face up to its history was initiated, and could be sustained well into the […]
Read MoreFrom the Electronic Buyers News: Supreme leader Deng Xiaoping unleashed the rewards ” and curses ” of capitalism on China more than two decades ago when he declared, “To get rich is glorious.” Today China has opened up its economy in all but the most sensitive areas to reap the benefits of free markets. But […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Hong Kong plans to roll out an integrated waste management system with private sector participation to handle the growing problem of waste disposal. “We plan to invest in new technology,” says Sarah Liao, Hong Kong’s Secretary for Environment, Transport and Works. Part of that program will include a product responsibility scheme, […]
Read MoreFrom the Navhind Times: India has no agreement with China on sharing waters of major rivers which originate there and flow into the country, but the two have signed an agreement on sharing water-flow related information, Water Resources Minister, Mr Priya Rajan Dasmunshi told the Lok Sabha today. Recently, China agreed to a controlled release […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet.com: Chinese experts said here Monday that China and Japan should resolve their disputes and narrow their differences through dialogue and consultation. Dialogue and consultation are part of the five-point proposal Chinese President Hu Jintao made on developing Sino-Japanese relations when he met with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on the sideline of the […]
Read MoreFrom expressindia: Since the violent anti-Japan demonstrations in China last month, Japanese legislators in Tokyo have been ringing up their embassy in Beijing to ask why Chinese people dislike their country so much.So the embassy has collected 10 Chinese school textbooks, to be faxed to the lawmakers, who believe state-mandated texts may offer hints about […]
Read MoreFrom Japan Times: European issues inevitably seem remote to readers in Japan just as Far Eastern problems are remote to the public in Britain. But no one concerned about world peace can be other than apprehensive about friction between major powers in the Far East, especially against the background of threats to Taiwan from China. […]
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