From The Asashi Shimbunm: For officials in charge of defending Japan, the year to watch out for is 2008. Around that time, Defense Agency officials predict China’s military will dwarf that of Taiwan, and Beijing may even beef up its air force to a level comparable to the combined power of the Air Self-Defense Force […]
Read MoreThe People’s Daily has published a report lauding improvements to citizens’ lives since the country joined the World Trade Organization three years ago: “According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce (MOC), there are 250 million urban employees in China, 25 million of whom work for foreign-funded companies. The jobs of 80 million Chinese are […]
Read MoreKyoto News reports, via China National News: “50 detained for protesting at China central leadership compound”
Read MoreFrom China National News, these are highlights on Chinese Newspaper today.
Read MoreFrom In These Times: “……money and faith appear to be the primary causes of Hui-Han tensions. The Chinese government has long tried to mollify its potentially restive minorities with sops such as jobs preferences and other affirmative action-type schemes. But with unemployment rising, particularly in the rural central and western provinces, the Han majority is […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pacific Media Network: “Typically, these protests are local in nature and generally resolved with a combination of payoffs, arrests, and promises of future improvement. Occasionally, China’s government takes action against local officials whose crimes are considered egregious. As long as protests remain local, however, they can be managed as isolated cases that won’t […]
Read MoreVia Yahoo! News, from AFP: “China faces water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters (1,400 billion cubic feet) every year with severe water pollution posing a threat to the health of millions of people, state media reported. More than 400 of 669 Chinese cities are facing water shortages, among which the situation in 110 cities […]
Read MoreVia Yahoo! News, from AFP: “A majority of Japanese want their government to get tougher with China and North Korea (news – web sites) as support for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has dipped, an opinion poll showed. Tension has been mounting between Japan and its communist neighbors amid a row over North Korea’s abductions of […]
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune: “While most Chinese migrants hope to land jobs as cogs in a factory, several Bai family members embrace entrepreneurship as a way of advancing.”
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “Postcards featuring Diaoyu Islands in East China Sea have formerly been issued by the State Postal Bureau for the first time and they will soon go on sale in major Chinese cities. ” AP’s report on this story is here. To know more about the historical background of Diaoyu Islands dispute between China […]
Read MoreESWN had new series of photographs on his EastSouthWestNorth blog. According to him, these photos have been all over Chinese BBS forums. “It is difficult to figure out what the original story was. As far as I can tell, this is a photographic record made by a religious NGO group which visited a remote village […]
Read MorePhilip P. Pan wrote on The Washingtonpost: “Attorney Pu Zhiqiang sat with the two authors on trial, listening intently and taking notes, his broad shoulders hunched over a small table. Facing him on the other side of the courtroom, Zhang Xide, a short, slightly pudgy Communist Party boss, leaned back and smiled as the first […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “Guangdong Province in South China is planning to take even bolder steps in reforms to household registration in the new year, with the aim of scrapping rural household registration system that is preventing farmers from enjoying many rights and advantages enjoyed by their urban peers. ‘That means all the farmers in Guangdong […]
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune (Sub required): “Bai Lin is a sad-faced 19-year-old who seems to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders. She works in a small industrial town for a factory that makes intravenous drip kits for hospitals. Once she lived with her family in a dirt-floored hovel at the end of a […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: “China’s Xinhua News Agency has selected the top 10 news stories in China in 2004.”
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