From People’s Daily Online: With the 2008 Olympic Games approaching, the Beijing government, naturally, wants to project their best image as not only will hordes of representatives of every country flock to the city in 2008 but television stations worldwide will focus on it before, during and after the month of the games. So every […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: As Taiwan’s two leading opposition figures begin consecutive visits to China over the next two weeks, the point of the exercise – for both sides – will be to advance a running campaign to isolate the island’s vigorous independence movement. The first of these visits is to begin Tuesday with […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: Lesotho-based producers can no longer compete with the cheap goods being dumped into the American market by China’s powerful clothing sector after it was freed from the quota system. The rand, which has more than doubled in value against the dollar, has equally doubled their costs. Textiles had become the biggest single […]
Read MoreFrom News24.com: Tibetan mountaineers and a team of volunteers have begun a six-week clean up of Mount Everest, where tons of rubbish has been dumped by expeditions, state media said Monday. The team is scaling the world’s highest peak from the Chinese side and will spend until World Environment Day in early June collecting garbage, […]
Read MoreFrom the Triple Pundit: According to the World Wildlife Fund, most Chinese companies are more environmentally aware than expected. This is great news given the typically gloomy outlook for China’s pollution problems, and indeed the world’s. The survey also showed that 22 per cent of respondents are implementing tougher environment standards than legally required, with […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The forests of Zhangjiagang are horizontal: tens of thousands of felled, stripped trees lying on the quayside of China’s biggest timber port, far from their roots in Indonesia, Russia, South America and Africa. The trunks of pine, maple, merbau and zebra wood are dead, but this forest is growing. Every year, more […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Audience who listened to lectures given by a group of former Chinese diplomats in the past few days on the Sino-Japanese relations all agreed that reason was needed in showing patriotism… Xu was on a national speech tour organized by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Juries will help reach verdicts in criminal and civil court cases in China, state media reported on Monday, as the country seeks to strengthen its arbitrary legal system. About 27,000 jurors will begin work next week, but rather than being selected for each trial, they have been appointed for five-year terms after being […]
Read MoreFrom the Indianapolis Star: Americans are used to hearing about the Chinese economy, but there is less public awareness of the progress being made by the Chinese military. Like its economy, China’s armed services are on the rise. U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military, which […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese police have detained an Internet surfer for trying to organise an anti-Japanese protest in the eastern city of Nanjing on the upcoming Labour Day holiday, state media said on Monday. It was the strongest signal to date China is seeking to head off a repeat of violent protests across the country this […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (sub required): Western pressure has been mounting on China to revalue the renminbi, from hardening rhetoric in the US Congress to recent calls by the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations for more flexibility from China. However, there is currently no credible evidence that the renminbi is significantly undervalued, and an […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Delegates at the Asia-Africa summit in Jakarta, Indonesia The Asia-Africa summit has ended with what the organisers say is a historic deal to build economic and political ties between the two continents. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has described the agreement as a milestone. About 80 leaders, representing two-thirds of the world’s […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Hundreds of Chinese and Korean Americans and Chinese students studying at US universities on the east coast on Friday gathered in a massive protest against the Japanese government’s denial of its past war crimes and its bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council. At Dag Hammarskjold Square which lies just across […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The thousands of people who poured onto the streets of China this month for the anti-Japanese protests that shook Asia were bound by nationalist anger but also by a more mundane fact: they are...
Read MoreFrom The Australian: In its short rule of 5 1/2 decades, the Chinese party has perpetrated some of the most appalling atrocities of modern history: the mass murder of landed farmers in the early 1950s; the purge of hundreds of...
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