From The New York Times: Deng Xiaoping, China’s late paramount leader, famously declared after he consolidated power in the early 1980’s that his predecessor, Mao Zedong, was 70 percent good and 30 percent bad. With that numerical coda, the Communist Party closed a historical debate that had threatened to tear it apart. Hu Jintao, general […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: China’s state newspapers stuck closely to script on Sunday, printing only the official news agency’s report on the cremation of former leader Zhao Ziyang, purged for opposing the use of force to end protests in 1989. The one-time general secretary of the Communist Party died on Jan. 17 at […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: They came from the walled compounds of the Communist Party elite and the shantytowns of the disgruntled and dispossessed, from universities and office towers, from villages and cities across China. They came to mourn the death of a man the party had hoped they would forget. Arriving in sleek sedans and […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: Venezuelan and Chinese officials have signed agreements on oil, agriculture and technology during meetings in Caracas Saturday. Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed 17 bilateral agreements and also discussed cooperation in mining, oil and gas projects, as well as technological partnership.
Read MoreIn an article in the Guardian, Isabel Hilton observes: “It is difficult to pull off the modernisation of a society as complex as China’s without relaxing authoritarian controls… Beijing routinely suppresses news of civic protest, fearful that strikes and demonstrations might coalesce into something more organised. They feared that Zhao Ziyang’s death might galvanise just […]
Read MoreFrom MENL: China has launched marketing of missiles designed for Iran. China’s Hongdu Aviation Industry Group has exhibited three variants of two new guided missiles that were designed and developed for Iran. The anti-ship missiles, displayed at the China Air Show 2004 in November 2004, were identified as the JJ/TL-6B, JJ/TL-10A and KJ/TL-10B.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Some 2,000 mourners and at least that many police officers turned out Saturday for a heavily restricted funeral service for Zhao Ziyang, as authorities took steps to ensure that the final commemoration of Mr. Zhao, the former leader, would not touch off anti-government protests. Buffeted by icy winds under a […]
Read MoreFrom The Central News Agency, via The Epoch Times: At 9:00 this morning, the farewell ceremony to former general secretary of the CCP, Zhao Zhiyang’s body is held at the hall of Beijing Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. After the ceremony, the body is cremated. According to today’s report by Hong Kong Wen Hui Pao, four types […]
Read MoreFrom Max.com Wires: In an apparent step backward from Western-style capitalist reforms, China has ordered a more active role for Communist Party officials in managing state-controlled companies. Although Chinese corporations increasingly are modernizing management and seeking to meet international standards as they invest and issue shares overseas, party officials still call the shots in many […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: The first direct flights between bitter rivals China and Taiwan since the end of a civil war 55 years ago started carrying Lunar New Year holidaymakers amid hopes for improving cross-strait relations. Six Chinese planes landed in Taipei and one in southern Kaohsiung while Taiwan’s China Airlines and EVA Airways […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: US software giant Bill Gates (news – web sites) has high praise for China, which he says has created a brand-new form of capitalism that benefits consumers more than anything has in the past. “It is a brand-new form of capitalism, and as a consumer its the best thing that […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Comrade Zhao Ziyang, who passed away on Jan. 17 at the age of 85, was cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing Saturday morning. On behalf of the leaders of the central authorities, Comrade Jia Qinglin and other senior officials including He Guoqiang, Wang Gang and Hua Jianmin, were at the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Wired News: Hundreds of mourners braved police checks on Saturday to attend a low-key invitation-only funeral for Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party chief purged for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests. Nervous the ceremony might spark protest, China’s leaders had wanted to permit only a quick funeral […]
Read MoreFrom the National Review Online: Tense Straits — Washington signals timidity toward Chinese bellicosity. As world attention has focused in the past weeks on continuing violence in Iraq and disaster relief in southeast Asia, decisions made in Beijing and Washington have quietly pushed both countries closer toward a confrontation in the Taiwan Strait. Avoiding military […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters, via ABC News: China has proposed holding working level talks to pave the way for a fourth round of six-party discussions on ending North Korea’s nuclear arms programs, diplomatic sources said on Friday. The proposal was made as the international community is trying to persuade the reclusive communist state to abandon its […]
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