From the San Francisco Chronicle: Despite its rising prosperity, China has seen a dramatic increase in public demonstrations after several years of nervous quiet followed the violent government crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989. The number of protests grew to more than 58,000 in 2003, when an estimated 3 million Chinese took to […]
Read MoreFrom the Times: “Express patriotism rationally. Don’t take part in illegal protests. Don’t make trouble,” said the text message sent by Beijing police to millions of mobile phone users in the capital. “Help by not creating trouble, love the nation by not breaking the law.” Officials of China Mobile, the top service provider, said only […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via metronews.ca: Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, under pressure to reconcile with rival China, said on Sunday he has asked the leader of a smaller opposition party to relay a message to Beijing during a visit later this month. His announcement comes after Chinese President Hu Jintao held groundbreaking talks with Lien Chan of […]
Read MoreHere are some recent articles on Lie Chan’s visit from different perspectives: Xinhua: Hu-Lien meeting evokes worldwide applause People’s Daily: HK various sectors highly appraise CPC-KMT meeting Taipei Times: Politicians must respect the people International Herald Tribune: Nationalists, Communists together again
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via expressindia.com: The fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival ended on a political note on Saturday when the top feature film prize went to Stolen Life, a Chinese drama that its director said was banned in her native country. “This is truly important for us in the sense that the film is still banned” […]
Read MoreFrom the Houston Chronicle: On the surface, China looks much more impressive than Russia. But this is a country that will be living with the consequences of totalitarianism for some time. Thanks to the one-child policy, there will be hundreds of millions of elderly people without families to support them. Thanks to that same policy, […]
Read MoreFrom a special issue of Newsweek titled “China’s Century,” Fareed Zakaria writes: Every businessman these days has a dazzling statistic about China, meant to stun the listener into silence. And they are an...
Read MoreESWN has translated excerpts from a number of documents about the writings by journalist Shi Tao that got him imprisoned on “state secrets” charges. Writer Liu Xiaobo writes: I have been reading what Shi Tao has been publishing in overseas media in recent times.¬† I don’t see any “national secrets,” unless Shi Tao’s poems contain […]
Read MoreA Child Scavenging Coal, from photoseries: Real life in the eyes of photographers, by tianjingmutouren via tom.com
Read MoreFrom Deutsche Welle: The EU is set to launch a probe into China’s exploding textile exports this week just as trade officials are warning that doing so could be perilous to trade structures and other industries. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is urging the European Union and China to talk through their dispute over China’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: An historic meeting between the two sides in China’s 1926-49 civil war”the mainland’s Communist Party and the Taiwan-based Kuomintang”has ended in a pledge to seek a definitive end to hostilities and pursue economic integration. The Kuomintang leader, Lien Chan, may also have done some good with his call”televised across the mainland”for the […]
Read MoreFrom CNN’s special feature Eye on China, a report called “Environment pays price of progress“: Look out the window of an office block in downtown Shanghai, and the smog can sometimes be so thick it is hard to make out the building on the other side of the street. Around the capital, Beijing, the desert […]
Read MoreXinhua has reported on the recent sentence handed down to journalist Shi Tao: Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was on Saturday sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for being found guilty of illegally providing top state secrets to overseas organizations… The court was told that the main contents of a certain important document were read […]
Read MoreFrom Arab News: India and Japan yesterday decided to cooperate closely to achieve their common ambition of a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi wound up talks with Indian premier aimed at building a new partnership Both countries supported each other’s candidature for the all-powerful Security Council and agreed […]
Read MoreFrom The India Express: India and Japan instituted a strategic dialogue that was spelt out in the eight-fold initiative signed between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Koizumi on Friday. The dialogue is at the level of the National Security Advisor ” higher than the one between India and China ” which is at the Foreign […]
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