From Reuters: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Friday he would meet Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday as the Asian neighbours try to repair relations that are at their most fractious in decades.
Read MoreOld Street in Beijing (photo series), by Dayu via Fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom AP, via SFGate.com: Japan sent mixed signals Friday to China, offering a “heartfelt apology” for its World War II aggressions to try to repair tattered ties ” but blunting that message when Japanese lawmakers visited a war shrine critics say glorifies Tokyo’s militaristic past. A Chinese official welcomed the apology but added that “what’s […]
Read MoreFrom MSNBC.com: China’s venture into the Third World that began with the first Asia Africa summit in Bandung, Indonesia, 50 years ago is finally paying dividends for the lumbering economic giant. advertisement As China goes where few others will venture ” fostering diplomatic and economic ties with nation’s viewed with various degrees of disdain by […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: The apology by Japan’s Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, is a sign of the success of Beijing’s campaign of diplomatic intimidation against Tokyo. Japan certainly has plenty to apologise for in relation to World War II. But it has apologised at least 18 times. It has apologised over and over again at prime […]
Read MoreFrom MercuryNews.com: A group of China specialists gathered Thursday at Stanford University for a two-day hearing on China’s technology development and the challenges and opportunities it poses for the United States tech industry. The scholars and security experts testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, painting a complex picture of the role technology […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Bo Xilai, China’s Minister of Commerce, said that China’s trade policy towards Japan remains unchanged, but reminded the prolonged “disharmony in political relations” between China and Japan would hurt bilateral trade and economic cooperation. “The Chinese government holds a positive attitude towards enforcing China-Japan economic and trade cooperation,” Bo said in an interview […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China made clear today it would not tolerate more anti-Japanese protests and also urged its citizens not to boycott Japanese products, orchestrating an effort to clamp down on rising nationalist anger. In response to three successive weekends of raucous anti-Japanese street demonstrations, the Ministry of Public Security announced that “unauthorized […]
Read MoreFrom the Green Car Congress: At the Auto Shanghai 2005 show, DaimlerChrysler is emphasizing its entire range of approaches to sustainable mobility for Asia as a whole, and China in particular. Making their Asian debuts at the show are the Mercedes-Benz S-Class Hybrid (earlier post) and a cutaway model of the fuel-cell version of the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily Online: The first Chinese “World Earth Day” stamp was issued in Beijing Friday by the State Post Bureau (SPB) to encourage the whole society to treasure resources and protect the Earth. The one-piece set of stamp has a face value of 80 fen (10 cents). Its print features a pair […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: Although their collective numbers are impressive, NGOs, or non-governmental organizations, have largely remained on the periphery of society until very recently. Compared to a decade ago, when the first NGOs were founded in China, their collective identity is now increasingly becoming a buzzword, with their influence felt more and more across this […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian Unlimited: In his provocative new book, distinguished American commentator Thomas Friedman argues that digital technology and increasing globalisation have created a ‘flat earth’. In this exclusive extract he unravels the dizzyingly complex supply chain behind his laptop – and argues that it will make the world a safer place.
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via swissinfo: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized on Friday for Japan’s wartime atrocities and said he would meet Chinese President Hu Jintao in a bid to repair ties that are at their worst in over three decades. Here is a short chronology of major incidents in the two countries’ rocky ties.
Read MoreMarket scene in Shangri-La, Yunnan, by CottonCandy via flickr.
Read MoreFrom the Hindu: The number of China’s rural population “in abject poverty” dwindled by 2.9 million in 2004 from the previous year, the government said on Thursday. The number of rural residents living in abject poverty stood at 26.1 million at the end of 2004, or 2.8 per cent of the total rural population, according […]
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