Constant Brand: EU Ministers Urged to Keep China Embargo
From the Guardian: The European Parliament urged EU foreign ministers Thursday not to lift their 15-year-old arms embargo against Beijing, saying the human rights situation there did not warrant the change. In a 431-85 vote, lawmakers at the EU assembly in Strasbourg, France, sent a strong message backing a hardline resolution drafted by German Conservative […]
Read MoreWilly Lam: Beijing’s Alarm Over New ‘US Encirclement Conspiracy’
From the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, via AsiaMedia: One of Beijing’s worst nightmares seems to be coming true. Having apparently steadied the course in the Middle East, the Bush administration is turning to Asia to tame its long-standing “strategic competitor.” While this particular term has been shelved since 9/11 – and Sino-U.S. relations have improved […]
Read MoreMurray Scot Tanner: Chinese Government Responses to Rising Social Unrest
Recent testimony by Murray Scot Tanner (of the Rand Corporation) in front of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, about “Chinese Government Responses to Rising Social Unrest” is available here for...
Read MoreEconomist: China’s people problem
From the Economist: Can China”population 1.3 billion”really be running short of people? In many of the most important parts of its booming economy, the answer, increasingly, is yes. Though China has a vast pool of unskilled labour, firms in the south now complain that they cannot recruit enough cheap factory and manual workers. The market […]
Read MoreWilliam Pesek Jr: What an India-China axis means for the rest of Asia
From the IHT: When it comes to business there are shakes and quakes in the status quo, and then there are tectonic shifts. China and India joining hands easily tops the economic Richter scale. “India and China can together reshape the world order,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India said in New Delhi as Prime […]
Read MoreReuters: China fumes at Japan’s gas drilling plans
From Reuters, via Economic Times: China called Japan’s plan to allow gas exploration in disputed waters a serious provocation on Thursday, but sought to rein in anti-Japanese sentiment that sparked violent protests last weekend. Japan avoided escalating the war of words, saying dialogue was needed to resolve the feuds. China also called for talks. See […]
Read MoreFrank Ching: China’s cultural soul being sacrificed on altar of growth
From the Japan Times: As the Chinese economy continues to power ahead, everyone in the country is pleased with the visible improvement in standards of living, but very few people are counting the cost in terms of the loss of China’s historical legacy, the growing sense of alienation and the loss of the cohesiveness that […]
Read MoreLuis Ramirez: China-Japan Dispute Hits Cyberspace
From VOA: The growing animosity between China and Japan has entered cyberspace, with Chinese Web sites calling for thousands to join new anti-Japanese demonstrations in the coming days. The protests have been prompted by what many in China see as Japan’s attempts to whitewash the atrocities its troops committed before and during World War II. […]
Read MoreOpenNet Initiative: Internet Filtering in China
A new report by OpenNet Initiative examines the Chinese government’s filtering of web content: The OpenNet Initiative tested China’s Internet filtering of web content, blog postings, and e-mail correspondences. Our testing found efforts to prevent access to a wide range of sensitive materials, from pornography to religious material to political dissent. Unlike the filtering systems […]
Read MoreAFP: China websites call for large weekend anti-Japan protests; govt in dilemma
From AFP, via Channelnewsasia.com: China’s anti-Japanese websites and Internet forums called for a second wave of rallies against Japan this weekend, as the government struggled with how to ensure nationalistic furore does not boil over. In popular instant messaging forums, netizens spread word about the times and locations of planned demonstrations in major metropolises including […]
Read MoreMeeting the press: India and China, A clash of cultures
From the International Herald Tribune, via A Glimpse of the World: India As India and China emerge as global megaforces and sidle diplomatically closer, it is becoming fashionable to recall a long history of trans-Himalayan contact, suspended by 20th-century geopolitical quirks. “The richness and variety of early intellectual relations between China and India have long […]
Read MoreFT: China’s weak link
From The Financial Times: The fragile banking sector is not the only problem that ought to give Chinese leaders sleepless nights. There are also the country’s stock markets. The days are long gone when the rising markets of Shanghai and Shenzhen threatened to eclipse Hong Kong as the listing location of choice for the best […]
Read MoreXinhua: Economist warns of financial crisis
From Xinhua, Via China Economic Net: Some experts have warned that China is likely to suffer a severe financial crisis in 20 years unless measures are taken, according to the Beijing-based newspaper Economic Reference. The huge amount of non-performing loans of China’s major commercial banks increases the danger of panic bank withdrawals, the newspaper quoted […]
Read MoreJoe McDonald: China Seeks Probe of Greenpeace Rice Claim
From AP, via Newsday.com: China has ordered an investigation into an environmental group’s claims that genetically modified rice not approved for human consumption has been sold in central China for two years, an official said Thursday. Greenpeace on Wednesday called for a recall of the rice and released what it said were results of lab […]
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