From the Washington Post: President Bush has decided the United States and China should begin holding regular senior-level talks on a range of political, security and possibly economic issues, signifying both China’s interest in the prestige of such sessions and the administration’s efforts to come to grips with China’s rising influence in Asia, senior administration […]
Read MoreSeveral articles about the upcoming China-India summit. From the IHT: 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 MoreFrom the IHT: The spectacular rise of China as a world economic power is one of the great changes of our time. For Europe, as for the United States, it poses a massive competitive challenge. Europe, the United States and Japan are still the big players in the world’s service, high-tech and luxury goods markets, […]
Read MoreFrom VOA, via pavyand.com: French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier has defended a European effort to lift an arms embargo against China, despite criticism from Washington. Mr. Barnier made his remarks in a wide-ranging interview with reporters in Paris, which also touched on Iran’s nuclear program. French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier Barnier responded directly to remarks […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: Fang Yune is one of millions of Catholics in China following guidance from the Vatican, but until yesterday she had not heard about the death of Pope John Paul. “You are the first to tell me about it,” said Mrs Fang, a self-described “old granny” living in Liugou, a small […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: When President Hu Jintao assumed the chairmanship of China’s central military commission in September, he quickly demonstrated the incisive managerial style that has distinguished him from his predecessor, Jiang Zemin. But as is often the case in the People’s Republic, impressive external appearances may have served to conceal internal weakness.
Read MorePeople’s Daily reports: China has made substantial progress in improving maternal and child health, but great disparities between developed eastern and underdeveloped western regions, urban and rural areas as well as the rich and poor may affect China’s drive to achieve better results, experts say. China has been dedicated to health care of women and […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: At a time when the American military is consumed with operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, global terrorism and the threat of nuclear proliferation in North Korea and Iran, China is presenting a new and strategically different security concern to America, as well as to Japan and Taiwan, in the western […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The United States rejected on Thursday several of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s key proposals to reform the United Nations, including a timetable for aid increase, debt forgiveness and expansion of the U.N. Security Council. Annan has presented a series of recommendations in the most sweeping overhaul of the world body since 1945 and urged […]
Read MoreFrom the Daily Times (Pakistan) The apparent high inflow of foreign investment into China is used to trumpet China as the wave of the future. But most of that inflow comes from ethnic Chinese and much of the so-called investment from East Asia makes a trip from China via places like Hong Kong and then […]
Read MoreFrom the Times: China received its final shipment of food aid yesterday, a historic moment as the most rapidly developing country marked the end of 25 years as a recipient of United Nations help. The merchant vessel Blue Dream, carrying 43,450 tonnes of grain worth ¬£3.8 million, docked in the bustling port of Shiwan near […]
Read MoreCity life: working in a Cafe, from ChinaBBS.com.
Read MoreFrom the Epoch Times: Guangdong, known as a “paradise” for migrant laborers, attracts more than a million workers from China’s poor regions annually. In order to survive, they leave their families and work away from home. Huizhou Gutangao is one of the biggest industrial districts in Huizhou city, Guangdong province, and it provides many job […]
Read MoreThis is a shocking story, about a wrongful execution only discovered ten years later. (The Globe and Mail’s report is here.) After the story was uncovered and reported by the Henan Business News, Chinese authority quickly...
Read MoreFrom AFP via Yahoo News: BEIJING (AFP) – The percentage of men showing signs of early ageing in Shanghai, China’s most modern and one of its richest cities, has doubled over the past two decades, state media said, citing a survey. Symptoms of “male menopause,” which includes weariness, vesicular diseases and deteriorating sexual ability, trouble […]
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