From AP, via The Washington Post: Inflaming already tense relations with China, Japanese lawmakers said Tuesday they plan to visit a shrine that critics say glorifies their country’s militarist past, and a Tokyo court ruled against Chinese victims of Japanese wartime atrocities. Such developments would ordinarily infuriate the Chinese, but in the current atmosphere they […]
Read MoreFrom The LA Times: “The world is not the way they tell you it is,” was a line used once to describe rambunctious financial markets in the 1960s. That thought is even more applicable today to almost anything you hear about China’s economy. A crisis is brewing in U.S.-China relations, owing to an apparently yawning […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: When Chinese censors axed a novella about steamy sex in the People’s Liberation Army, it was the timing of its appearance earlier this year that proved most crucial in effecting the ban. Serve the People, written by award-winning writer Yan Lianke, premiered on China’s literary scene just weeks before Beijing unveiled […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: China’s central State-owned enterprises (SOEs) realized a 31.2 per cent profit growth year-on-year in the first quarter, based on steady growth of output and more effective control of costs. A release by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) yesterday said the more than 170 central SOEs – those directly […]
Read MoreFrom Japanese blogger Joi Ito: There is a good blog post by Andrea about bloggers in China talking about the Anti-Japan protests. As a Japanese who has a great deal of sympathy and empathy for China, what I find difficult is trying to understand the various threads and how Japanese people can try to make […]
Read MoreMany German papers’ opinion pages focused on China today, and Spiegal translated excerpts of their viewpoints: The China question — which encompasses both the political and the economic interests of Europe — dominates the editorial pages of Germany’s papers on Tuesday. On balance, the analysis is that Germany is involved in a competition for Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom National Defense Magazine: The People’s Republic of China not only is producing a wide array of weapons systems for its own forces, but also is exporting versions of its military hardware to other nations under the wary eye of the United States… While China has taken steps to regulate its arms manufacturers, it still […]
Read MoreThe following anonymous account is from a graduate student who participated in the Anti-Japan demonstration in Shanghai on April 16, 2005. The student was born, raised, and college-educated in China, has studied in the US, and...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Taiwan’s main opposition leader Lien Chan is expected to embark on a historic visit to China on April 26 and meet Chinese President Hu Jintao, the mass circulation China Times newspaper said on Tuesday. Lien’s Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), said details of Lien’s trip would be finalised after its […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Japan’s high court rejected an appeal Tuesday by 10 Chinese victims for official compensation from the Japanese government for damages caused by biological warfare in China before and during World War II. The ruling comes amid increasing tension between Japan and China, including violent anti-Japanese protests in China over Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: In a bid to rein in violent anti-Japan protests that have erupted in China, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing urged Chinese on Tuesday not to participate in illegal demonstrations or endanger social stability. “Do not take part in protest activities that have not been approved. Do not do anything to affect social stability,” state […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (Subscription required): In the gathering storm in Washington over “unfair” trading by China, there is no more sensitive lightning rod than textiles and clothing – and no US industry is more persistent in demanding government action to stem a flood of Chinese exports. Listen to the industry and you would think […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: To much of the world, China’s reputation for manufacturing can be summed up in one word: cheap. But on the factory floors here and in the newly built neon-lit offices, managers say times are changing – and costs rising. Skilled workers and technicians are taking advantage of acute shortages to […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited: Escalating tension with China, violently illustrated by renewed anti-Japanese protests in Shanghai and other big cities at the weekend, is increasing pressure on Tokyo to expand its military capabilities and back a deepening strategic alliance with the US reaching from east Asia to the Gulf. Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution restricts its […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph: Rubbish from British recycling bins is being transported half way across the world to blight China’s booming coastal cities, usually in plumes of acrid black smoke. Its fate is very different from that conscientious householders imagine when they sift through the detritus of their daily lives and sort it into separate piles for […]
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