China analyst David Cowhig shared the following observation with CDT : Peasant unrest has grabbed more attention in China over the last few years. I have noticed a common useage — such and such a policy is a “tranquilizer pill for the peasants”. I have seen it applied to the higher grain prices over the […]
Read MoreVolunteers cleaning a polluted city beach, Hainan Province, by Longgege, via Tianyaclub.
Read MoreFrom Taipei Times: Substandard batteries from China and Southeast Asia are poisoning Taiwan with increasing levels of mercury and other hazardous mineral waste, ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator-at-Large Wang Jung-chang (ÁéãʶÆÁíã) claimed yesterday. Under the banner: “Chinese and Asian Batteries Enough to Kill 200,000 Taiwan People A Year,” Wang said during a press conference […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Yu Xiaogang calls himself “a fundamentalist communist” whose mission it is to fight for the “underprivileged.” His revolutionary bent is strong enough to have led him to join the Burmese Communist Party, alongside other volunteer leftists, to battle Burmese government forces in the jungles across the Chinese border. That war is long […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily Online: A right royal row over a once royal park has led to China’s first public hearing related to the environment and highlighted the country’s water shortage problem. Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan Park, which was burned down in 1860 by British and French troops and further destroyed in 1900 by […]
Read MoreFrom Slate Magazine, Henry Blodget continues his series “Go East, Young Man.” You can’t take it anymore. All this yammering about how much money everyone is making in China. (You don’t know anyone actually making money in China, but from what you read, hear, and see, you gather everyone is.) Real estate, cell phones, video […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: Zhangjiagang, a city in east China’s Jiangsu Province, and six other cities have retained the title “environment-friendly” after passing their qualification re-examination by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), the country’s environmental watchdog. In a statement issued Friday, SEPA said the seven cities had made further achievements in the coordinated economic, social […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: AS heirs to an ancient and enduring civilisation Chinese leaders like to take the ultra-long view in interpreting change. But while they may say it is too early to tell, it seems that two centuries of eclipse, when China was a backwater in world affairs, are at an end. If so, Australia […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT, Roger Cohen writes “The future of Asia in 10 uneasy questions,” including: 1) India and China are rising fast, but what are the big ideas they stand for?; 2) Can India be used by the United States to contain China?; 3) If India is not the answer to China, how about Japan? […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: If China wants to stand on the high moral ground when dealing with the distortions of history it surely cannot do so on the basis of its record – a record which demonstrates it cannot even come to terms with the enormity of the disasters that characterized the Mao Zedong era. History […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The European Union will postpone the planned lifting of its arms embargo on China until at least next year, and require China to act first by improving its human rights record and seeking a peaceful solution to its dispute with Tawian, it emerged last night.
Read MoreFrom the BBC: A Chinese village has become a tourist attraction after residents fought a pitched battle with police, who retreated after dozens were injured… The unrest is one of a series of recent outbursts of frustration and anger in rural China, over various issues. Residents say tens of thousands of people from nearby towns […]
Read MoreESWN has translated blog posts from InMediaHK on the anti-Japanese demonstrations in China.¬† ESWN writes, “This is a glimpse of how the locals view the issue differently from the simplistic presentations in the western media.”
Read MoreFrom One News: About 2,000 retired servicemen from across China staged sit-down protests in Beijing to demand pension increases in a public display of dissent that has alarmed the leadership, a military source and witnesses said. The back-to-back demonstrations from Monday to Wednesday were the biggest by veterans in China since the 1949 revolution and […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Boston.com: China warned its people on Friday against staging fresh protests when Japan’s foreign minister visits at the weekend, seeking to head off a repeat of last week’s violent anti-Japanese demonstrations. Thousands took part in protests in at least four Chinese cities on Saturday and Sunday, and Internet chatrooms, emails and mobile […]
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