Photo: Anti-Japan protest in Zhongguangchun, Beijing, via Wenxue City.
Anti-Japan protest in Zhongguangchun, Beijing, by treestman, via Wenxue City.
Read MoreKyodo News: Massive anti-Japan protests spread to Guangzhou, Shenzhen
From Kyodo News: Chinese people staged massive Anti-Japan demonstrations for the second consecutive day Sunday with more than 3,000 demonstrators surrounding a hotel that houses the Japanese Consulate General in the southern city of Guangzhou and about 10,000 staging a protest in Shenzhen, Japanese officials said. Chanting anti-Japan slogans, such as those denouncing Tokyo’s bid […]
Read MoreKyodo News: Japan protests Beijing protest violence, China responds nagatively
From Kyodo News: Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura summoned Chinese Ambassador Wang Yi on Sunday to lodge a formal protest and seek an apology for an anti-Japanese rally in Beijing that turned violent on Saturday and to compensate for damage done to the Japanese embassy and the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Beijing. Commenting on the […]
Read MoreErik Eckholm: China Opens New Inquiry of Times Researcher Held Incommunicado
From the New York Times: Chinese researcher for The New York Times who has been held incommunicado for seven months on suspicion of leaking state secrets is now being investigated for financial fraud, Chinese security officials told the man’s lawyer in Beijing this week… Some legal experts and diplomats said it appeared possible that the […]
Read More60 Japan-China friendship groups to gather in Tokyo
From Japan Today online: Monday, April 11, 2005 at 07:06 JST TOKYO ” About 60 Japanese and Chinese friendship groups will gather in Tokyo on Tuesday amid intensifying anti-Japan protests in China. Facing a range of bilateral issues including Japan’s bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council and a history textbook row, […]
Read MoreAndy Xie: Scare and Dare
From Morgan Stanley: The oil market is challenging the US Federal Reserve and China to tighten further. Even though China’s crude imports have been falling and the dollar has rebounded substantially, oil prices continue to rise. Inflation talk by the Fed and declining imports by China have not scared away oil speculators. The oil market […]
Read MoreJing-dong Yuan: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan
From Asia Times Online: April 2005 marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and India. It is a major milestone for the two ancient civilizations, neighbors, and rising powers. Over the past five and half decades, the bilateral relationship has witnessed the warm “Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai” brotherhood and the famous Panch […]
Read MoreChina’s employment problem is prominent this year
From People’s Daily Online: The “Workers’ Daily” published an article April 8 analyzing the employment situation in 2005 in China. The article pointed out that in 2005 there are prominent structural contradictions with an austere employment situation. The article said that the key problem facing China in 2005 is still the contradiction among the full […]
Read MoreAFP: Chinese Premier Wen sees ‘Asian century’ for IT industry
From AFP, via the Philippine Daily Inquirer: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Sunday began a tour of India’s hi-tech capital and called for closer cooperation to launch the “Asian century” of information technology. India’s software skills combined with China’s dominance in hardware can trigger a tectonic shift in the global technological landscape, Wen said […]
Read MoreAlexa Olesen: China to Settle Constitutional Dispute
From AP, via Newsday: China said Sunday that its top legislative panel will settle a constitutional dispute over how many years Hong Kong’s next leader will serve — a decision pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong say will degrade the former British colony’s legal system… But the Hong Kong government last week asked Beijing to settle […]
Read MoreAlexa Olesen: Anti-Japan Protests Continue in China
From AP, via the Guardian: Anti-Japan protests erupted for a second day in China on Sunday, as Tokyo demanded an apology and better protection for its citizens and diplomats after demonstrators smashed windows and threw eggs at the Japanese embassy… Some 10,000 protesters surrounded a Japanese-run Jasco supermarket in the southern city of Shenzhen on […]
Read MoreWillem van Kemenade: Witness report on the Japanese embassy demonstration
Thanks to Willem van Kemenade for the following account from Beijing: I witnessed the demo in front of the Japanese embassy this afternoon for about one hour, from 5 to 6 pm. My son had alerted me by mobile one hour before and...
Read MoreXinhua: Banning skyscrapers requires second thought
From Xinhua Online: For some Chinese, skyscrapers are seen as symbols of urban modernity and economic dynamism. It partially explains why many domestic cities seem to regard high-rises that dot their skylines as their claim to fame, and as a backdrop to their having arrived as truly metropolitan. Currently, Shanghai, China’s business hub, has more […]
Read MoreEdward Friedman: Chinese Students’ Hatred for Japanese
About the recent Anti-Japan protests, Edward Friedman writes: The protests are abnormal. Student protests especially in spring time are natural all over the world. Studies of student protests show that the targets tend to be...
Read MoreReuters: China Protesters Attack Japanese Targets
From Reuters.com: (including an unedited 3 1/2 minute video clip of the Anti-Japan demos near Peking University.) Thousands of Chinese smashed windows and threw rocks at the Japanese embassy and ambassador’s residence in Beijing on Saturday in a protest against Japan’s wartime past and its bid for a U.N. Security Council seat. Protesters pushed their […]
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