From BBC NEWS: China’s breakneck growth has continued into 2005 despite official efforts to take the economy off the boil. The latest figures show the Chinese economy was 9.5% bigger at the end of March than a year earlier. The expansion matches the wildfire pace of 2004, and remains well ahead of the official target […]
Read MoreFrom ABC News: The leader of Taiwan’s opposition Nationalists will travel to China later this month for the first encounter with a leader of China’s Communists in more than five decades, party officials said Wednesday. Party leader Lien Chan declined to give details of what he would discuss with China’s President Hu Jintao when they […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s economy, which accounted for a 10th of global growth last year, expanded more than expected in the first quarter as exports and investment surged. Gross domestic product rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier to 3.14 trillion yuan ($379 billion), matching the fourth- quarter’s gain, the National Bureau of Statistics said in […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Protests have erupted in a dozen cities over the past two weeks, damaging Japanese diplomatic buildings and private businesses. Such public displays of political sentiment are typically tightly policed in this authoritarian country and require official approval and perhaps organizational help. But judging by comments from a variety of Chinese, the […]
Read MoreFrom CBC News: Just hours after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was named Pope Benedict XVI, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said Beijing is willing to improve the relationship between China and the Vatican on two conditions. One is that the Vatican break off diplomatic relations with Taiwan and recognize the government in Beijing and that Taiwan […]
Read MoreFrom Daily Yomiuri On-Line: Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan severely criticized Japan on Monday over its textbook review and its stance on China-Taiwan relations, saying, “Japan seems to have changed its attitude recently.” “It seems to have changed its policy from the time China and Japan normalized diplomatic relations to competing with China,” Tang said […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Chinese and Cuban leaders vowed Monday to expand cooperation and advance ties between the two countries. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, while meeting visiting Cuban leader Raul Castro Ruz, said that over recent years, China and Cuba had developed a profound, friendly relationship and had also continuously made new achievements in economic and […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: China and the Netherlands decided here Monday to make more efforts to further improve relations between their armed forces. The pledge was made by Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan and his Dutch counterpart Henk Kamp during their talks in The Hague. Cao, who is on a three-day visit to the European country, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via People’s Daily As Asian and African leaders are due to meet at this week’s summit in Indonesia. China, the world’s fastest growing economy, and Africa are looking forward to closer economic ties and a concrete cooperation mechanism. Fifty years after the first Bandung meeting, which marked the beginning of China-Africa cooperation, the […]
Read MoreFrom Scotsman.com: Waves of anti-Japanese protests sweeping China for the past three weeks have threatened bilateral economic ties between East Asia’s biggest economies. Fears are growing that an obscure dispute over the approval of eight revisionist Japanese history textbooks could disrupt booming trade and investment flows, and shatter a key pillar of global growth. Although […]
Read MoreFrom the National Review Online: There’s a lot of bad political and economic blood developing between China and Japan, and China and the U.S. None of it is going to lead to any good. Anti-Japanese demonstrations have broken out in Shanghai and Hong Kong, with Chinese authorities looking on with winks and nods. The Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom The Southern Weekend (in Chinese), translated by Adrian Lu, via Press Interpreter: Korean people have a hatred in their hearts, a hatred so thick that it can not be dissolved. One of Korea’s new tasks is figuring out how to transform this hatred into optimism and open-mindedness. What are the Korean people’s cultural mentality, […]
Read MoreFrom News-Medical.Net : Water-borne diseases now cause half a million infant deaths annually in the region, while air pollution causes thousands of premature deaths 50,000 people die prematurely each year in China due to pollution just from coal burning, according to the World Bank‘s new Environment Strategy for the East Asia and Pacific region. These […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily Online: Cashmere is known as “soft gold” or ” the diamond of fibre,” due to its rarity and incomparable quality. But China, the world’s largest cashmere producer and exporter, seems not to be enjoying the golden opportunities to be had from a properly run industry.
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