From the International Herald Tribune: China, which attended a Group of 7 meeting for the first time in October, will not be sending its most senior finance and banking officials to a gathering next week of the world’s leading industrialized nations in Washington, a spokesman for the U.S. Treasury Department said. “Senior Chinese officials have […]
Read MoreFrom 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 MoreFrom Xinhua Online: China will soon have its first regulation to deal with the mounting problem of electronic waste. As China emerges as a major global manufacturing and consumer powerhouse, discarded electronics products and household appliances, many filled with toxic chemicals, are piling up, posing a severe threat to the environment and sustainable economic growth. […]
Read MoreFrom Open Democracy: China‘s deputy environment minister, Pan Yue, explains to Andreas Lorenz the scale and urgency of the ecological crisis engulfing China. Andreas Lorenz: China is dazzling the world with its booming economy, which grew by 9.5%. Are you pleased with this speed of growth, and what effect is it having on the environment […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: A senior official highlighted the importance of renewable energy for China’s development here Tuesday. The Law on Renewable Energy, which was approved by the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee in February and will go into effect on January 1, 2006, is an important law for the safety of China’s energy […]
Read MoreTwo articles about the growing concern over the flood of Chinese textiles into the US and Europe. From the Asia Times: Challenges loom over Chinese apparel exports as the United States and the European Union seem to be initiating steps to restrict this trade as demands from domestic producers get shriller. While the US government […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: Why are Americans so nervous about the emerging East Asian Community? U.S. officials and experts have started wringing their hands over the proposed formation of a group uniting East Asian countries, which will be cemented in place at a summit meeting in Kuala Lumpur at the end of this year. . What […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Some people are worried that a stronger and more developed China would pose a threat to other countries,” Mr Wen told Wednesday’s meeting. “Such worry is completely misplaced… even if we become stronger and more developed, we will not stand in the way of others, still less become a threat to others.” He […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: In a surprisingly broad and deep targeting of thought and expression here, authorities across China have shut or drastically curtailed college Internet message boards – a powerful vehicle for free exchange, and one used far more by non-students than students… The crackdown is another phase of a broad and zealous […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese activist Lu Yunfei estimates that by the start of September, 30 million people will have signed his online petition opposing Japan’s bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. “It’s not so large a number,” says the man who runs Patriot’s Alliance Web, putting the figure in the context of […]
Read MoreFrom The People’s Daily: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz signed a treaty for friendship, cooperation and good-neighborly relations Tuesday. The treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Good-Neighborly Relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (hereinafter referred to as “the Contracting Parties”) says the two parties […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Foreign Ministry official Qiao Zonghuai summoned Japanese Ambassador Koreshige Anami on Tuesday to lodge a solemn objection to the Japanese Ministry of Education’s approval of textbooks that deny history and glorify Japan’s wartime aggression… “The Chinese government is indignant at the Japanese government for its approval of such textbooks that distort history in […]
Read MoreThanks to David Cowhig for sending the following in to CDT: I’ve just started reading “Reform of the Chinese Political System” by Zhou Tianyong and collaborators. He is the vice director of research at the Central Party School and the book has a foreword by Li Junru, vice president of the Central Party School. The […]
Read MoreFrom the hallway window of my father-in-law’s home, by shoujikacha, via Fengniao Forum. More of “My city through the windows.”
Read MoreFrom the Daily Yomiuri, here is the Japanese press’ take on the demonstrations against Japan’s bid to join the United Nations Security Council: An anti-Japan demonstration on Sunday in Shengzhen, Guangdong Province, China, was initiated mainly by private groups of patriotic young people who publicized the rally via the Internet. The rally was testimony to […]
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