From Reuters, via the Standard: The mainland has defended a revised set of rules on petitioning the central government that it says are designed to give people with complaints more rights and make local authorities more accountable. Some scholars have criticised the new regulations, which come into effect Sunday, as an attempt to prevent a […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Chinese police have sent a message warning against anti-Japanese demonstrations to more than 30m mobile phone users as part of a campaign to prevent protests planned for next week’s May holiday. The warning, sent as a text message to mobile phones in the eastern province of Jiangsu this week, underlines the […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Leaders of the Chinese Communist and Taiwanese Nationalist parties, whose two sides were enjoined in one of the longest and bloodiest civil wars of the last century, meet Friday in Beijing for the first time in more than 60 years. Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan, standard bearer of the Kuomintang […]
Read MoreFrom the Daily Champion, via Allafrica.com While the drive to secure energy resources is at the heart of Beijing’s renewed engagement with Africa, there is nonetheless a growing depth and complexity to relations that bears closer analysis. In particular, China’s role in the Sudan crisis, where it has supported a military regime accused of perpetrating […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The rate of income growth of farmers has been falling ever since the late 1990s. Statistics indicate that the rural net income per capita increased by a meager 695.9 yuan (US$84) in the seven years between 1997 and 2003, while the urban net income per capita jumped by over 3,480 yuan during […]
Read MoreFrom Environmental Media Services: Shareholders in the billion dollar China Light and Power (CLP) company were today confronted with the real cost of burning fossil fuels. Greenpeace activists and people from communities suffering the devastating impacts from coal fired power stations across Asia, disrupted CLP’s annual celebration of its dirty energy trade at the Hong […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: Her campaign is quite simple: planting trees. Her achievement is so great: more than 30 million trees credited to the Green Belt Movement founded by her. Now, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize hopes to add another link to her environmental campaign: Olympics. The 2008 Beijing Olympics is […]
Read MoreLatest Riot Police Vehicle in Qingdao, from chitangdeliuxing via bulo.163.com
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Some say Hu has cast himself as a hard-liner to consolidate his position after a delicate leadership transition and could still lead the party in a more open direction. There is a growing consensus inside and outside the government, however, that the 62-year-old former engineer believes the party should strengthen its rule […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: From Mao to Yao, China has come a long way, and not everybody here is happy about it. Amid a national controversy over what it means to be a worker in the China of 2005, the Communist Party government announced Thursday that Yao Ming, the 7′-6″ Houston Rockets center from Shanghai, […]
Read MoreIn today’s New York Times, lawyer Pu Zhiqiang writes: We Chinese are outraged by Japan’s World War II crimes – the forcing of Chinese into sexual slavery as “comfort women,” the 1937 massacre of...
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: The Chinese economy is now off the top of its investment-driven business cycle and is moving toward a position of substantial overcapacity, which may begin to weigh heavily on prices next year and should see exports surge.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times, two articles about competition between China and Japan over a Russian oil pipeline. In “China beats Japan in Russian pipeline race,” John Helmer writes: Despite pressure from the government and oil importers in Tokyo for priority in Russian crude deliveries to Japan, Russia’s new eastern oil pipeline will first deliver crude oil […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China opposes setting an artificial timeframe for the Security Council reform and rejects forcing through a reform proposal still lacking broad consensus by means of a vote, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Wang Guangya said Wednesday… After reiterating China’s principles on UN reform, Wang said the proposals for the Security Council reform […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, via Asia Media: In keeping with its economic expansion, China has deepened its strategic influence in the region, especially with India’s immediate neighbors – Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Beijing has long kept a close strategic partnership with Islamabad, but its overtures to the remaining countries were hobbled […]
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