From ChinaTechNews.com: CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) yesterday released the results of the Fourth China Internet Network Information Resource Survey, which was mainly focused on the current registered websites around the country. By January 2005, China had 1,852,300 registered websites, an increase of 56% over the previous year.
Read MoreAnti-Japanese protesters in Shangahi, by Dan Washburn, Click here for more photos. Video clips of the march are here, here and here.
Read MoreFrom The Industry Standard: Taiwan has expelled journalists from two Chinese news agencies and won’t consider letting them return until China lifts a ban on the Web sites of two major newspapers from the island, an official said Friday. “We think it would help people in China better understand our views if they had access […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Enraged about Japan’s tendentious textbooks and territorial disputes in the East China Sea, Sun Wei, a college junior, joined thousands of Chinese in a rare legal protest march on the streets of Beijing last weekend. Yet the police herded protesters into tight groups, let them take turns throwing rocks, then […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The farmer reaches down into a sack he keeps stored on the second floor of his house in a small farming village south of here and pulls up a fistful of rice that he says has no equal. “This is really remarkable rice,” he says, forcing it into the hands […]
Read MorePhotos, video clips and more from blogger Dan Washburn’s Shanghai Diaries: So, I ended up going to Shanghai’s anti-Japan march this morning anyway. Going against the advice of a Chinese friend who told me the protest would be “very dangerous.” Going against the advice of the American government which warned U.S. citizens that China’s blanket […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Japan’s decision to approve new school textbooks, criticised by some for glossing over the country’s wartime record, have promoted demonstrations in several Chinese cities. But as William Horsley discovers the row between the two countries concerns the future as well as the past.
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times, via Glimpse of the World: What if the Japanese government apologised profusely and unconditionally for all the terrible things Japan did to China during the war? What if all Japanese textbooks described...
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: Japan and China have been at each others’ throats for centuries over who dominates the Western Pacific, and particularly Taiwan and Korea. Like the long-seated rivalry between France and Britain in Europe, China, as the continental power, and Japan, as the island power, have […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Washington Post: After decades of riding global car makers’ coat-tails and churning out clunky cars few wanted, upstart Chinese firms are flexing their muscles, designing sedans that threaten to engulf world markets. Now, the likes of General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. are getting increasingly nervous about the country’s vaunted […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Washington Post: Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers met on Saturday to discuss two of the global economic concerns over which they have least control — high oil prices and China’s fixed currency peg. Increasingly aware of the group’s ebbing influence amid shifting world economic power toward developing […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: China is strongly dissatisfied with “some negative tendencies” in Japan’s recent policies concerning the Taiwan issue, and is especially concerned with deepening the Japan-Taiwan ties in security, Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan said in Tuesday’s meeting with Japan’s Kyodo News Service president Toyohiko Yamanouchi. Tang said the Taiwan issue concerns China’s […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CNN.com: The Japanese government strongly protested on Saturday a new wave of anti-Japan demonstrations in China, saying Beijing should have prevented the violence. “Even though information was available beforehand to infer that there would be a demonstration, nothing was done to prevent it … and we strongly protest to the Chinese government,” […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABC News: Shouting “Japanese invaders must die”, thousands protested against Japan’s wartime past in eastern China today, hurling rocks and bottles and burning Japanese flags at Tokyo’s consulate in Shanghai. But with thousands of paramilitary police on the streets of Beijing and students warned against protests, authorities headed off a repeat of […]
Read MoreA new report entitled “Crisis on the China Rim: An Economic, Crude Oil, and Military Analysis” by Laguna Research is available for free download from Research Connect: There is a crisis rising on the China Rim, a crisis made of economic imbalances, energy insecurities, ancient hatreds, and unsettled scores. The catalyst for this crisis is […]
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