From the Prospect: While America has been distracted by the war on terror, authoritarian Beijing has been spreading its influence through east Asia and beyond. In fact, for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, US “soft power” is being challenged by a state which is capable of wielding comparable economic and […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Canadian Pressa: Families mourned and began the harrowing process of identifying dead relatives Thursday in this coal city in northeastern China following the country’s worst reported mine disaster in decades.
Read MoreFrom IPS, via ECONOMY: China is quickly overtaking the United States as the world’s biggest consumer of global resources, energised by a dynamic economy that is growing at a record pace, says a Washington research group. “China is no longer just a developing country. It is an emerging economic superpower, one that is writing economic […]
Read MoreFrom NPR : All Things Considered: Recognizing the Internet’s power, China’s Communist government has embraced and developed it. The Web is now transforming the way business is done in China. This report is the first of a three-part series about the Internet’s impact on China.
Read MoreFrom USA TODAY: Bill Gates is betting on America’s decline and putting his money on China’s rise. Or so the Microsoft founder seemed to say last month at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland. “I’m short the dollar,” he said. “The ol’ dollar is going down.” At the same meeting, Gates linked his […]
Read MoreFrom Axcess News: Although China’s Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, many actions of the Chinese government show otherwise. Today, in China, Christians are allowed to attend only government approved churches that are closely monitored and censored by party officials. Many churches that desire to be free of censorship and are not government sanctioned, go “underground” […]
Read MoreFrom Bangkok Post: The British prime minister’s proposal for a tourism boycott of Burma, raised before Britons and the leaders of the international community, is an idea which, if implemented, would do more harm than good to the people of Burma. The boycott would be intended as a sanction against the military regime’s poor human […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: China has become an important country in fighting against money laundering and terrorist financing by actively taking part in international cooperation, Deputy Governor of The People’s Bank of China Li Ruogu said here Wednesday. Speaking at an international conference entitled “Creating Global Partnership and Synergy in the Fight Against Money Laundering,” […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via TurkishPress.com: China’s 2005 budget deficit will amount to some two percent of gross domestic product or 300 billion yuan (36 billion dollars), down from a budgeted deficit of 319 billion yuan in both 2003 and 2004. The budget will be presented for approval by Finance Minister Jin Renqing at the upcoming annual […]
Read MoreFrom UPI, via Interest!ALERT: Chinese authorities ordered a news blackout on Monday’s coal mine explosion as the death toll climbed to 209 Wednesday, local journalists said. The propaganda department of Liaoning province in northeast China denied local journalists access to the mine in Fuxin city and ordered them not to report on the story, the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABC News: They work in one of the world’s most hazardous industries, tunneling far beneath the earth’s surface for coal to power China’s booming economy. But two days after a gas explosion killed 209 people at the Sunjiawan mine in the country’s most deadly mining accident in decades, miners in this northeastern […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS: Hopes are fading for five Chinese coal miners still missing after a blast in a mine killed 210 colleagues on Monday. Rescue operations are winding down at the mine, which is in the north-eastern city of Fuxin, in Liaoning province. The accident was the deadliest reported by China’s mining industry since the […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The glitz is gone from celebration for North Korea’s leader… The toast, which in previous years focused on Korean-Chinese friendship, this year concentrated on praise for Kim and ended abruptly with the consul general clinking his glass against those of his visitors.
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: Peking University Professor Ding Yuanfu has presented a survey of governmental and non-governmental experts, most of who predict that a crisis with a big effect on China’s economic and social development will occur before the year 2010.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: China is now fast emerging as a charity superpower after the Andaman Sea tsunami, the first foreign disaster to be given saturation coverage by the highly competitive media born of the booming economy and the Internet. Chinese civic groups, able to learn slick fundraising tactics from charities overseas thanks to the […]
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