From The International Herald Tribune: In his meetings with European leaders this week, President George W. Bush will try to persuade the Europeans not to lift their embargo on arms sales to China. These are the main arguments he is likely to hear for maintaining it, and how the president should refute them.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Had she been younger, Liao Cuiying might have been mistaken for pregnant, standing beside a watery ditch with a hard, distended belly that spoke not of imminent life but approaching death. Her village is surrounded by Dongting Lake, an immense inkblot of brown water that sustains villages of fishermen and […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder Newspaper: A recent wintry day found hundreds of retirees at one of Beijing’s principal parks. Some sang Chinese folksongs in impromptu choruses. Others kicked a little foot shuttlecock back and forth. One large group practiced outdoor ballroom dancing. If the parks and plazas of major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai seem […]
Read MoreFrom The Hindu Business Line : In the previous edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examined the pattern of economic growth in China over the past two decades and considered the macroeconomic policies associated with the growth trend and periodic deflation. In this edition they consider the possible factors behind the sustained […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via Taipei Times: Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd’s (‰∏äʵ∑Áõõ§߉∫íÂãï®õÊ®Ç) acquisition of 19.5 percent of Sina Corp (Êñ∞ʵ™), China’s No.1 Internet portal, may spur consolidation in the industry, analysts in China and Hong Kong said. Shanda, an online games developer run by Shanghai billionaire Chen Tianqiao (Èô≥§©Ê©ã), disclosed on Feb. 18 that it acquired control […]
Read MoreFrom The Block Island Times: This ice ship sculpture gives a whole new meaning to the term “icebreaker.” It is for good reason that Harbin is known locally as “Ice City.” As winter roars into full force here, dropping the mercury to a record -40 degrees, snow and ice combine to create a brilliance of […]
Read MoreFrom ScreenDaily.com: If further proof were needed of the technical and emotional maturity of the New Chinese cinema, then Peacock supplies it. The story of three siblings in a provincial Chinese town at the tail end of the Cultural Revolution, this sensitive, deceptively simple film takes a while to establish its authority, but patient audiences […]
Read MoreFrom The Japan Times Online: North Korea’s surprise announcement last week that it possesses nuclear weapons and would indefinitely boycott the six-party talks immensely complicates the Korean nuclear problem and puts additional pressure on China as host of the multilateral talks to get them started again. In a statement issued Feb. 10, Pyongyang accused the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The income gap among urban residents in Beijing is widening, according to figures released by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics. The average income of the richest 20 per cent of its residents is four times that of the poorest 20 per cent, according to figures for last year. Different educational levels […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: The Internet has become a spectacle in the Chinese society. In the last ten years China’s Internet has grown from a marginal industry to a mainstream and still continues to gain ground in the society. It started from scratch on a non-existent market and seems to be expanding to the limitless. […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China has been a given a timely reminder that its drum-beating, if not quite saber-rattling, over Taiwan is not cost-free. The joint U.S.-Japan declaration that they had a “common strategic objective” in peaceful resolution of the Taiwan straits issue was unusual but underlined just how much both attach to maintenance […]
Read MoreFrom UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, via World Peace Herald: Officials from China’s environmental agency have decided to allow work to resume on 26 of 30 projects which had not filed proper impact reports. The State Environmental Protection Administration ordered building to stop Jan. 18 at various constructions sites, mainly hydroelectric and thermal power generating plants, State-run […]
Read MoreFrom Turkish Weekly: At a national maritime awards meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 20 December 2004, Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan emphasized the importance of marine development, regulation of China’s maritime territory, protection of marine ecology, and rapid development of the marine economy. The Vice Premier was acknowledging the fact […]
Read MoreFrom the China Daily: Diaoyu Island and adjacent isles are part of the the Chinese territorial sovereignty. [www.cfdd.org.cn] A Chinese non-government organization with an aim of defending the Diaoyudao Islands and adjacent isles has been registered in Hong Kong, and will apply to Chinese authorities to develop the islands. China Federation of Defending Diaoyudao Islands […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Middle East Times: China, home to the world’s second largest number of Internet users, saw sales of online games in 2004 soar 47.9 percent to 2.47 billion yuan ($298.44 million), state media reported on Tuesday. Among China’s 94 million Internet users, 20.25 million were online games enthusiasts, Xinhua news agency reported, citing […]
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