Japan to explore disputed area of East China Sea

From the Associate Press, via Canidian Press: “Japan plans to explore natural gas fields in a disputed area of the East China Sea that rival China has also been surveying, Japanese media said Tuesday, amid growing tensions between the two countries. Tokyo has earmarked about 23 billion yen, or $219 million US, in its budget […]

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Gagging China’s intellectuals

Paul Mooney wrote on Asia Times online: “As intellectuals, activists and netizens continue to defy Chinese Communist Party efforts to maintain its monopoly on the truth, freedom of expression is coming under fierce pressure not seen in recent years. The party’s determination to fetter them was revealed on Monday when three outspoken intellectuals were detained […]

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Poll shows Japan’s hardening attitude to China

From the Financial Times: “More Japanese people believe Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister, should continue to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine in defiance of Chinese pressure than believe he should stop, in a poll that reflects Japan’s hardening attitude towards China. According to a survey by NHK, the public broadcaster, 46 per cent of the Japanese […]

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Spammers hide behind the Great Wall

From Asia Times, by Colin Galloway: “China has never been known as the friendly face of the Internet. Police and government agencies go to great lengths to control how citizens get online and how they act when they do, actively persecuting dissidents, closing thousands of Internet cafes, and creating a vast and technically dazzling cyber-edifice […]

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China Briefly Detains 3 in Intellectuals Crackdown

From Reuters: “Chinese authorities briefly detained at least three liberal intellectuals, sources close to the three said on Tuesday, as part of an intensified crackdown on government critics. The Communist Party, which has monopolized politics in China since 1949, recently ordered newspapers and magazines not to give publicity to prolific author Yu Jie and five […]

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A crusader of anti-Japanese sentiment – Lu Yunfei

From The South China Morning Post, via China Study Group: “By day, 29-year-old Lu Yunfei is a Beijing-based IT manager but in his spare time he is an anti-Japanese activist. Along with 100 friends, he operated the China Patriots’ Alliance website, an online forum recently closed down by authorities. He and others who share his […]

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Chinese president reshuffles provincial leaders

From AFP, via Yahoo News: ” Chinese President Hu Jintao has reassigned allies to a series of top government posts in a move analysts see as another step in his consolidation of power weeks after he became China’s powerful military chief. ” Also, here is today’s Chinese Newspaper Highlights on Yahoo News, via China National […]

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Laurence Eyton: Taiwan’s Chen a lame duck

From Asia Times Online: ” Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) suffered a surprise upset on Saturday when it and its allies failed to win the majority of legislative seats that had been widely predicted. The DPP and its smaller ally, the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), managed to win 101 of the total 225 seats up […]

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China, Russia Will Hold First War Games

From the Associated Press: “China and Russia will hold their first joint military exercise next year, the Chinese government said Monday, as President Hu Jintao called for an expansion of the rapidly growing alliance between the former Cold War rivals. ”

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China detains liberal authors Yu Jie and Liu Xiaobo

From Reuters: “Chinese authorities have detained liberal author Yu Jie, two sources close to him said on Monday, in what appeared to be part of a government crackdown on intellectuals. The Communist Party, which has monopolised politics in China since 1949, recently intensified its crackdown, ordering newspapers and magazines not to give publicity to Yu […]

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South Africa’s Naspers to take 40pc of Beijing Media issue

From The Standard: “Beijing Media Corp (BMC), the advertising sales unit of Beijing Youth Daily, the mainland’s second largest newspaper in terms of advertising revenue, has attracted the backing of South African media group Naspers, which will subscribe to about 40 per cent of BMC’s HK$905 million initial public offering (IPO).” Thanks to Danwei for […]

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China ‘no longer needs food aid’

From BBC: “The UN World Food Programme is urging China to become a bigger donor instead of a recipient of its aid. The call comes as the United Nations organisation phases out its aid programmes to China next year. In the past quarter of a century the World Food Programme has helped feed 35 million […]

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Chen Shui-Bian and China

From the Financial Times: “The Chinese Communist party has reason to be satisfied with recent election results – not on the undemocratic mainland, of course, but in the outlying territories of Hong Kong and Taiwan. In Hong Kong’s legislative elections in September, democratic parties failed to make as much headway as they had hoped, thus […]

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