From the Times: Thirty-five miles north of Beijing, the capital, the opulent Pine Valley Golf Resort and Country Club is in a spectacular setting. Surrounded by mountains, there are places on the course where it is possible to view the Great Wall snaking its way up the precipitous slopes. But most obvious for all to […]
Read MoreESWN has posted a series of questions and answers about the recent riots at Huankantou, based on translations of several documents about the incident. The first question: Q:¬† Is it true that there is a total news blackout on the Huaxi/Huankantou incident and the only available information comes from western media? Are these the sole […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: The European Union could impose limits on cheap Chinese textile and clothing imports if an investigation into the large increase of Chinese goods on the market reveals the European market is being disrupted, EU trade chief Peter Mandelson said Sunday. But he insisted he was not seeking to […]
Read MoreThe International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam has posted an online exhibit of propaganda posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China. The China posters are here: The former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China: three countries where posters played an important political role and received a large amount of artistic attention. This is […]
Read MoreShanghai party newspaper, Jiefang Daily published a letter from Li Zongxin (in Chinese here), translated by Joel Martinsen, via Press Interpreter: Jiefang Daily Editorial Office: I am a common citizen living on Loushanguan road, and a loyal reader of your newspaper. I am writing today because I wish to tell you editors a few heartfelt […]
Read MoreThe outspoken Japan nationalist Shintaro Ishihara published this OP-ED on The International Herald Tribune: It is not an exaggeration to say that Asia is facing a crisis of greater severity than that seen during the cold war due...
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Following the election campaign in a beautiful Sussex village this week, I noticed that house owners had left their plastic bottles out, neat and ready for recycling. I was quietly admiring. Then I read a newspaper article which pointed out that all this plastic is being sent to China, in the holds […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The cheery smiles of scantily-clad models draped over cars at this week’s Shanghai motor show may suggest otherwise, but conditions are tough in China’s maturing auto market. The 75 per cent surge in sales in 2003 was never sustainable. Last year, growth was just 15 per cent. Nor was the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Washington Post: Rescuers in northeast China worked Sunday to free 69 coal miners trapped in a flooded mine, the government said. The miners were working underground at the Tengda Coal Mine, run by the local government in Jiaohe, a city in Jilin province, when the shaft flooded around 7 a.m., the […]
Read MoreFrom The Japan Today: Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said in several debate programs on television Sunday that the Japanese government will examine China’s history textbooks for alleged anti-Japanese references and ask the Chinese government to improve them if necessary.
Read MoreFrom The Korea Times: North Korea has shut down its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon to raise the stakes in its nuclear standoff with the United States. Since the reactor has been operating for about 25 months, North Korea should be able to extract enough plutonium for about two bombs sometime next year after the most […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The leaders of Japan and China have pledged to improve ties after weeks of escalating disputes, easing tension but not resolving some critical problems besieging relations between East Asia’s big powers. After a 55-minute meeting Saturday on the sidelines of an Asia-Africa summit conference here, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: More than two years after taking office amid uncertainty about his political views, Chinese President Hu Jintao is emerging as an unyielding leader determined to preserve the Communist Party’s monopoly on power and willing to impose new limits on speech and other civil liberties to do it, according to party officials, […]
Read MorePhoto series: Living at the bottom of society, from chengzhuzhoudeng via buluo163.com.
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: China saw the All China Environment Federation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) with the most extensive variety of members designed to protect the environment, founded here on Friday. The federation, which includes government officials, other environmentalist social organizations, enterprises and ecologists,is expected to serve as a bridge linking the public and the government […]
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