From Asia Times Online: How has China achieved this miracle? Economists studying China face thorny theoretical and empirical issues, mostly derived from the country’s years of central planning and strict government control of many industries, which tend to distort prices and misallocate resources. In addition, since the Chinese national accounting system differs from the systems […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: After nearly two years of fruitless financial diplomacy toward China over exchange rates, the Bush administration faces a growing rebellion from Congress. Senate Democrats are threatening to block President Bush’s nominee for United States trade representative, Representative Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, who comes up for a confirmation hearing on […]
Read MoreFrom the American Prospect, here is a review of Ma Jian’s novel The Noodle Maker: The narrative, which is artfully self-conscious, turns around a Sunday dinner between friends whose occupations all but mythically...
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Chinese student protestors now have more tools at their disposal than at any time in the past. They’re wealthier and more sophisticated, often with access to computers and the Internet, not to mention cell phones and text messaging. And today’s technology allows them to work anonymously. Apparently, no one, including authorities, knows […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The principle of respecting local situations and choosing proper strategies must be stuck to in the push to improve farmers’ consumption, says an article in People’s Daily. An excerpt follows: The topic of boosting rural consumption has been much talked about this year. A number of provinces imposed the specific aim of setting […]
Read MoreFrom YaleGlobal online: Recent developments – including the high-profile visit by China’s premier Wen Jiabao to South Asia – show the rising profile of China has intensified a long-running debate in Washington....
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet via Tom News: Jinan city, in Shandong Province was hit by the strongest sandstorm in this spring on Wednesday afternoon.
Read MoreFrom China Daily Online: The Dalian Municipal Marine Court has received 190-plus lawsuits to date from fisheries against a Portuguese oil tanker, which struck a rock 4.2 sea miles off Dalian Port on April 4 and spewed crude oil into local waters, sources from the court said yesterday. Among them, around 100 of the fisheries […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Serious shortages of primary energy sources like oil and coal have prompted the mainaland Chinese government to promulgate a law on the development of renewable energy sources. Solar energy could be the first choice as an alternative to fossil fuels. China’s western areas, especially the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, and […]
Read MoreThe Sunday San Francisco Chronicle published a long profile of writer Iris Chang, who committed suicide last November: On the day of Iris Chang’s death, word spread quickly over news wires and the Internet. Her obituary was published in newspapers worldwide. She had gained an international reputation in 1997 when she was only 29 for […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth blog: This post starts with the comment by Joi Ito: “I’m not trying to trivialize the issues that are being protested by the Chinese, but if they are trying to cause change in Japan, maybe some of them can try to talk to their allies in Japan like me instead of trying to […]
Read MoreFrom the San Jose Mercury News: China has quietly been drafting new rules for government purchases of software that strongly favor domestic products. Under the draft rules, national and local government agencies would be allowed to buy only software that is at least 50 percent locally made and whose copyrights are owned by a Chinese […]
Read MoreABC News (Australia) interviewed Trade Minister Mark Vaile about a proposed free trade deal between Australia and China: The Trade Minister Mark Vaile insists that Australia has not agreed to any areas of the economy being excluded from a proposed free trade deal with China. Some Chinese officials have expressed concern about Australian farm products […]
Read MoreThanks to Yawei Liu for sending the following information: Collective protest takes place in China regularly but this anti-pollution riot in Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province, is rare and significant in many aspects. First, the...
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: After burnishing its hardline credentials by announcing in December its intention to enact an Anti-Secession Law (ASL), Beijing took some significant steps toward improving cross-strait relations in January by cooperating in New Year charter flights, stopping propaganda criticism of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, and sending ARATS (Association for Relations Across the […]
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