The struggle of the champions

“China wants to build world-class companies. Can it succeed?” Read this article from the Economist.com: “The floor of the darkened room is strewn with mattresses and scattered shoes. Sleeping bodies stir under duvets. Nearby, others nap at their desks, heads on arms. It is a Friday afternoon at the headquarters of Huawei”one of China’s most […]

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CNOOC eyes bid for Unocal

From Financial Times.com: “CNOOC, China’s third biggest oil and gas group, is considering a bid of more than $13bn (¬£6.9bn) for its US rival Unocal, in a deal that would mark the largest and most significant overseas acquisition by a Chinese company. People close to the situation said the state-controlled group was interested in Unocal’s […]

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The China Daily on blogs

Blogger Jeremy* (Danwei) wrote: “The China Daily has published a rather boring article on blogs in China. Much of it is about bloggers’ responses to the tsunami. The article includes this pearl of wisdom: [T]here is an East-West difference. In places like the US, those blogs that offer journalistic information tend to attract the largest […]

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Photos: In the footsteps of joseph rock

Danwei introduced this link: “There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice China blog list, but only in only one is there insanity and genius in such monstrous proportions. In the footsteps of joseph rock is the journey of Sydney blogger Michael, following the footsteps of ‘bad-tempered and imperious’ Joseph Rock, who […]

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China to Make Sex-Selective Abortions a Crime

From The Washington Post: “China is to outlaw the selective abortion of female fetuses to correct an imbalance in the ratio of boys to girls that has grown since the one-child policy was introduced more than 20 years ago. Government figures show 119 boys are born in the world’s most populous country for every 100 […]

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U.S. Judge Dismisses Case Against Accused China Spy

From The Washington Post: “Citing “willful and deliberate misconduct” by prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed the charges against a Chinese-American informant accused of taking classified papers from her FBI agent lover. U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper threw out the case against Katrina Leung, saying that prosecutors had barred Leung’s onetime lover and co-defendant, […]

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China amends petition rules

From China National News: “China’s leaders have moved to protect the peoples’ right to petition local governments, and clarified procedures through which complaints may be submitted. Premier Wen Jiabao chaired an executive meeting of the State Council Wednesday to draft new rules on local petitions, the state-owned Xinhua news agency reported.” ESWN had a good […]

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China to stick with strict birth policy

From China National News: “China’s State Commission for Population and Family Planning Thursday said despite low birthrates, strict policies will continue for the foreseeable future. The average number of children in a Chinese family has dropped from 5.8 in the early 1970s to 1.8, figures from the commission released by state-run press show. The drop […]

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Risks Posed by South America’s Growing Ties to China

From Insidecostarica.com: “While the United States has its gaze trained elsewhere, China has been nudging its way into South America. Its influence could perpetuate a weak economic model based on commodity exports, and exacerbate the already serious problem of corruption, according to analysts, who identify these as the immediate risks posed by the sudden interest […]

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China facing rapidly growing ageing population

From: China Economic Net: “The State Family Planning and Population Commission, the nation’s leading population think-tank and policy shaper, predicts that from 2000 to 2007, the number of residents 65 or older will grow throughout the nation from just under 100 million to more than 200 million. That means a jump in elders of more […]

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Russia, China, And The Politics Of Energy

From TruthNews: “Is Russia positioning itself to become China’s major supplier of oil and gas in the near future? This frequently asked question took on new significance on 21 December when President Vladimir Putin — explaining the “perfectly normal” procedures implemented during the auction of Yukos’s main production unit, Yuganskneftegaz — told reporters in Schleswig, […]

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Official: China Development Threatened

From AP, via Yahoo! News: “China’s growing reliance on imported oil, pollution and looming water shortages pose the major threats to its economic development, a senior World Bank (news – web sites) official said Thursday. “The sustainability issues in China are the key issues in the next three to five years and the ones that […]

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China amends petition rules

From United Press International, via the Washington Times: “China’s leaders have moved to protect the peoples’ right to petition local governments, and clarified procedures through which complaints may be submitted.”

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China becomes world’s second largest source of spam

From Xinhua: “A source from the Internet Society of China’s anti-spam team on Wednesday said China has become the world’s second largest source of spam, after the United States. The source acknowledged that 180 of 400 IP addresses blocked by the International Anti-Spam Organization in November 2004 were Chinese.”

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