From The Standard: We asked some protesters – more like revelers, actually – what this was all about. “Whitewash,” said one of them in English and repeated the word several times over, presumably referring to the alleged whitewash of Japanese war crimes against China in present-day textbooks. “They [the Japanese] are too arrogant. We can’t […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s leading national newspaper, People’s Daily, carried a signed article Sunday calling for the Chinese people to maintain social stability for the building of a harmonious society. “Today’s world is not placid and there exist frictions and problems of various kinds; our endeavor to boost reform and construction is far from being a […]
Read MoreFrom the San Jose Mercury News: The nationalist fervor evident in the anti-Japanese protests surging through Chinese cities this past week is genuine. But it is also being carefully orchestrated by the communist government in Beijing to assert China’s claim to leadership in Asia. Behind this standoff lies a more subtle challenge to the United […]
Read MoreESWN writes: For the April 9, 2005 demonstration in Beijing, there is the suggestion that the government had a firm hand, including busing the demonstrators back home afterwards… But on April 16, 2005, there was a massive demonstration in Shanghai. All the evidence suggested that this was an undirected and therefore disorganized event. How would […]
Read MoreAccording to AP: China’s foreign minister on Sunday rejected Tokyo’s demand for an apology for damage to Japanese diplomatic missions in violent protests, telling his Japanese counterpart that Beijing had done nothing for which it had to apologize to Japan’s people. Meanwhile, Geo News reports that, “Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura will ‘strongly protest’ to […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily: Items left over from Japan’s invasion and occupation of China during World War II have been discovered recently in the capital of Guangdong Province, adding to the evidence China is using to condemn an official Japanese history textbook. According to the municipal cultural bureau, five hangars built for the invading Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press, via Thestar.com: Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew said heated disputes between China and Japan were unlikely to lead to war, a newspaper reported yesterday. “I don’t think they are going to come to war,” Lee said. “The dynamics are quite horrendous … therefore, I don’t think (a war) will happen.” […]
Read MoreFrom Agence France-Presse, via NEWS.com.au: The Group of Seven powers appealed for currency flexibility today in their latest veiled rebuke to China. Finance ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States did not explicitly cite China in a statement on currency rates issued at their latest meeting in Washington. But US […]
Read MoreFrom NPR – All Things Considered: China makes sure its currency does not grow stronger against the dollar by using its vast reserve of dollars to buy U.S. Treasury securities. That helps finance the government’s record budget deficits, but there are concerns beyond the purely economic about this relationship.
Read MoreFrom The Eye -Weekly: A complimentary bowl of house soup arrives within moments of Cheuk Kwan sitting down to a table at Kom Jug Yuen, a bustling Chinese restaurant on Spadina Ave. “They treat me nice here,” he says. “I’ve been eating here since 1976.” Kwan is very particular when it comes to Chinese restaurants. […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial TimesÔºàsubscription required) : No other big country has relied as heavily as China on overseas capital markets for its local companies to raise capital. This is now at the point that it is severely hampering development of China’s domestic capital market. Data compiled by the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s research centre show that […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Condoleezza Rice’s recent visit to east Asia concluded in Beijing, where she made clear her opposition to the new anti-secession law and her view that Japan should be a permanent member of the UN security council. With Sino-Japanese relations deteriorating and unification of Taiwan with China regarded as non-negotiable by the Chinese, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online China should promote the development of multiple energy types in its rural areas, said Vice Minister of Water Resources Suo Lisheng here Friday. The official said that developing rural energy sources was a “prerequisite for the social, economic and environmental development in the areas and is closely related with farmers’ quality of […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Express: East Asia might be able to achieve economic growth of 5-6% in the next five years, according to development agencies. The bad news is that it probably won’t happen without better infrastructure, and no one has the cash to pay for it. A joint study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters AlertNet: China pledged on Saturday to investigate an environmental dispute that led to rioting by thousands of villagers, in a move apparently aimed at ending a stand-off between peasants and factories accused of polluting. Thousands rioted in a village outside Dongyang city in eastern Zhejiang province last Sunday, injuring up to 50 policemen, […]
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