Photo: Anti-Japan Protestors
Anti-Japan Protestors, by J5EE, via Flickr. For more “Anti-Japan” (Tag) protest photos from bloggers, see Dali, Chinabyte and Xinhaiguang.
Read MoreESWN: Translation of Yu Jie’s book on Japan
From EastSouthWestNorth Blog: In the Japan Times, Ralph Jennings has an article (China yanks books about ties with Japan) about independent Chinese writer Yu Jie (‰ΩôÊù∞). Two of Yu Jie’s books have been disappeared from Beijing bookstores. What is so damnable in those books? According to Jennings, Yu, 32, argues in “Ambiguity’s Neighborhood” that Chinese […]
Read MoreKui Jiang: How the false statistical data fabricated
From China Economic Net: In the past year, the national economic census conducted by the Chinese government has encountered no small difficulties, with some enterprises refusing the economic census. Officers from National Bureau of Statistics find that there are quite some discrepancies between many statistical data drawn in the economic census and historical materials. Li […]
Read MoreKui Jiang: The development of hydroelectricity in China is in a dilemma
From China Economic Net: The structural contradiction of China’s electric power production is very conspicuous. For many years, projects of thermoelectricity blooms everywhere in the eastern provinces and cities where there is a relatively concentrated power consuming load. The coal reserve in China is not the No. 1 in the world but the annual exploitation […]
Read MoreJan Krikke: Thinking the unthinkable, a Confucian union
From Asia Times Online: In 10 to 15 years East Asia will form a political-economic union along the lines of the European Union. It will follow the reunification of the two Koreas, likely to occur around 2007. A “Confucian” union will integrate Japan into East Asia the way the EU integrated Germany into Europe. By […]
Read MoreHoward W. French: As China meets India, hints of a global shift
From New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World: When China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, arrives here on Saturday, his four-day visit will be filled with the usual handshakes and protocols that would ordinarily go little noticed beyond this region. This diplomatic mission, though, will have an altogether different feeling. Perhaps for the first […]
Read MoreHenry Blodget: The Empty Village – What about the 750 million Chinese who aren’t getting rich?
From The Slate: After a few days in Shanghai, it is easy to think that China has already become the world’s leading economic superpower. This illusion is not dispelled in Beijing. When I lug my bags from the train station to the Grand Hyatt, I walk right by the Lamborghini dealer. Of course, as many […]
Read MoreBBC: Beijing Beauties
From BBC NEWS: China’s silver-aged revolution marches forward as the country hosts its first ever beauty contest for the elderly. The Silver Age Beauty Contest is an inspired approach to addressing the issues of a rapidly...
Read MorePeople’s Daily: Will China & Japan move toward confrontation?
From People’s Daily Online: The over 2,000-year-old Sino-Japan relations, after going through the process of “strong China and weak Japan” and “strong Japan and weak China”, are now developing toward a relationship between the strong. At least for the moment, neither side of the two is the “weak”, this situation, when entangled with historical issues, […]
Read MoreKeith Bradsher and David Barboza: Made in China. Bought Everywhere.
From The New York Times: After years of running large trade surpluses mainly with the United States, China is now exporting around the world at such a rapid rate that other countries find themselves racking up large bills to China as well. The resulting boom for China is certain to step up trade frictions elsewhere […]
Read MoreKyodo: Japan Protests China’s Anti-Japanese Rally
From Reuters, via swissinfo.org: Japan protested to China on Saturdayafter an anti-Japanese rally turned violent in Beijing, where thousands smashed windows and threw rocks at the Japanese embassy and ambassador’s residence, Kyodo news agency said. Chinese demonstrators had been marching peacefully under heavy police guard at various places in the Chinese capital toprotest what many […]
Read MoreEconomist: The silent majority – A rare look inside a Chinese village
From Economist.com: In a country where 800m people, about 60% of the population, live in the countryside on an average income of less than a dollar a day, rural backwardness weighs heavily on the minds of China’s leaders as they dream of joining the ranks of the world’s leading economies. And in a country whose […]
Read MoreChristopher Bodeen: Shanghai Mass for Pope Draws Thousands
From AP, via The Washington Post: Thousands of Chinese Catholics attended services for Pope John Paul II in Shanghai on Saturday, despite the Chinese government’s refusal to forge ties with the Vatican. “Our pope loved China and loved the Chinese church,” Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian said at a memorial mass at Shanghai’s St. Ignatius Cathedral, […]
Read MorePacific Rim Bureau: China Moving to Replace US Influence in Latin America
From CNSNews,com: China’s growing influence in Latin America forms part of a “grand strategy” to counter U.S. dominance and eventually replace America as the world’s most powerful nation, U.S. lawmakers have been told. Officials and experts testifying before a House subcommittee hearing this week used different terms to describe the gravity of the challenge posed […]
Read MoreAP: Chinese Stone Japan’s Embassy
From AP, via CBS News: About 1,000 protesters threw rocks and broke windows at the Japanese Embassy on Saturday after a noisy march demanding a boycott of Japanese goods to oppose new textbooks that critics say gloss over Tokyo’s wartime atrocities. Protesters shouted “Boycott Japan!” as hundreds of police, some with riot helmets and shields, […]
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