From AFP, via the International Herald: Donald Tsang, Hong Kong’s caretaker chief executive, offered a defense Thursday of the government’s move to seek Beijing’s intervention to settle a dispute over the tenure of the next chief executive. “I admitted that there is no other way to resolve the problems locally,” Tsang said at a briefing […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: China signaled on Wednesday that it would resist plans to enlarge the Security Council this year, a proposal that is the centerpiece of Secretary General Kofi Annan’s broad package of changes for the United Nations to be taken up at a meeting of heads of state in September.
Read MoreFrom AP, via WBZ-AM: At the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, signs of Japanese wartime atrocities are everywhere. From gory photos to engraved stone tablets, the memorial tells visitors to remember that past and make sure Japan is held to account. Now, the Internet is doing the same job only much faster. In just weeks, organizers […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: China’s government said it won’t send any representatives to tomorrow’s funeral of Pope John Paul II and said Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s planned trip to the Vatican is a separatist move. “Under current circumstances, China won’t send representatives to the Vatican,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said today at a regular press briefing […]
Read MoreThis is one of many anti-Japanese animations circulating among young Chinese netizens recently. The captions says: “Protest!” “Strongly Oppose!” “For Good Luck in the Year of Rooster, Eat a lot of Worms!”
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Unlike the United States, the European Union is not yet considering action to stem the surge in textile imports from China that followed the end of quotas last year, a European trade official said on Tuesday. Instead, the European Commission, which takes the lead on international trade issues for all […]
Read MoreFrom the Slate: My last day in Shanghai, it rained. This put a damper on my plan to study the Xiangyang Park market, Shanghai’s Mecca for those hellbent on buying knockoffs. Two days earlier, en route to the French Concession, I’d gotten within a few blocks of the place and had nearly been tackled by […]
Read MoreFrom YaleGlobale: Beijing faces dilemma as anti-Japanese campaign in cyberspace hits the streets At the dawn of the Internet Age, many visionaries predicted that the rising tide of global interconnectedness would gradually eliminate sovereign borders and nationalism. The experience of China, which today is more open than in anytime in the past, however, belies that […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Up to 400,000 people are facing relocation to make way for a project diverting water from the Yangtze River to China’s parched north, it was revealed yesterday. Zhang Jiyao, director of the Office of the South-North Water Diversion Project Construction Committee under the State Council, announced the planned exodus at a conference […]
Read MoreFrom NCM: Around the world, dust storms are increasing and deserts shifting. In China, where a desert creeps toward Beijing, officials are worried about the 2008 Olympic games.
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China’s 12 million Catholics are mourning the death of John Paul II, but his passing is also a reminder of an unfinished legacy: the division of Chinese Catholics from the rest of the church, and from each other. Indeed, if John Paul II helped bring down Communism in Eastern Europe, […]
Read MoreFrom South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: Communist Party censors have acted over the rising tide of anti-Japanese sentiment nationwide, ordering all media to drop coverage of public protests against the Japanese government and companies. The ban was contained in an eight-point circular issued by the party’s Central Publicity Department. Apart from instructions to cool […]
Read MoreFrom China Labour Bulletin, an article about the dangers faced by jewelry workers in China: Over the past few years, about 60 workers in several Hong Kong-invested jewellery factories in Huizhou and Shenzhen have been found to be in the late stages of pneumoconiosis or silicosis (a form of pneumoconiosis), which is also known as […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via washingtonpost.com: The U.S. public and business community increasingly view China in a positive light, but Congressional staff hold strongly critical views of Beijing, according to a new survey on Wednesday… A majority of respondents from the general public, business leaders and Congressional staff agreed that low-cost Chinese goods benefited U.S. consumers and […]
Read MoreDead fish in polluted Weishan Lake in Shandong province, via Chinabbs.
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