Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sidestepped Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s invitation Tuesday to visit Japan, a sign ties between Asia’s major powers remain bedeviled by a spat rooted in Japan’s wartime history, reported Washington Post. In a meeting in Laos, Koizumi extended the invitation to Wen, the first since he took over as premier from […]
Read MoreInternetnews.com reported that Google has confirmed that its News site has been blocked in China for a couple of days. The search engine also said its Google News China, Spain and other national versions of the site have been inaccessible from China. In a statement, Google said it’s aware of the problem and working to […]
Read MoreA report by a U.N. agency and the Chinese Cabinet’s AIDS commission released shows that the number of people contracting the AIDS virus in China is rising, reported the Washington Post. An estimated 840,000 people have HIV while 84,000 have full-blown AIDS, spread mostly through prostitution and intravenous drug use. President Hu Jintao shown shaking […]
Read MoreWashington Post reported that thousands of Buddhist pilgrims gathered in the southern republic of Kalmykia on Tuesday for prayers led by the Dalai Lama during his first visit to Russia in a decade. Dalai Lama has been denied entry to Russia for years because of Moscow’s concerns about damaging the relations with China. China expressed […]
Read MoreReuters reported that China is awash in “out of control” acid rain. Acid rain fell on more than 250 cities nationwide and caused direct annual economic losses of 110 billion yuan. The rapidly growing number of cars and increasing consumption of cheap, abundant coal are the main causes of the acid rain in China, as […]
Read MoreChina Daily reported on Monday that Heilongjiang, a northeastern province in China, is turning to ethanol for fuel. Since Nov 1, all gas stations in the province have been ordered to provide ethanol-enhanced gasoline.
Read MoreChina signed a trade agreement with 10 South Asian countries, reports the BBC. The deal could eventually unite a quarter of the world’s population in a free trade zone worth $2 trillion.
Read MoreFrancis Markus of BBC reports that China is revising the death penalty law. According to the official media, the change will make the Supreme Court the ultimate body of appeal in capital cases.
Read MoreAsia Times runs a story today on the impact that the EU’s lift of arms embargo might have on China’s political prisoners. Li Jing wrote, “the news currently making the rounds in in Beijing’s political circles is that China will soon release some political prisoners and commute the sentences of others, in an effort to […]
Read MoreFrom the ZDNet: “Microsoft’s reported US$3.6m contract win in Beijing has not been met with universal approval in China, where concerns over software from outside are growing. There is growing disquiet about public sector IT contracts being awarded to Western vendors in China, a country long known for its fondness of open source and homegrown […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: “Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signalled the country was in no rush to reform the yuan, and questioned why more hadn’t been done to stop the dollar’s slide, the strongest words yet of concern by Beijing about the weakening U.S. currency. China needed a stable economy and healthy financial system before reforming its […]
Read MoreFrom the Joong Ang Daily: President Roh Moo-hyun and China’s President Hu Jintao met on July 7, 2003. The meeting was a starting point to arrange the first round of six-way talks to replace the U.S.-North Korea-China format that had been used before. A senior Seoul official recalled, “President Roh sent a message to North […]
Read MoreFrom today’s Christian Science Monitor: “When a gas explosion at 7:10 a.m. Sunday left more than 160 Chinese miners trapped thousands of feet underground, the story hit world news shortly after 10. For disaster reporting here, three hours is pure lightening speed. Horrific mining disasters on Oct 20 and Nov. 20 in central China, likewise, […]
Read MoreThe Guangdong party secretary has criticized the Hong Kong media for reporting on recent protests in the province, which have been blacked out in the mainland media. Lin Shusen told reporters that he doesn’t believe there has been an increase in the number of public protests and said, ‘It’s normal for people to go to […]
Read MoreDr. Peter Hays Gries from the University of Colorado at Boulder just published this OP-ED piece on the Denver Post: “American talk of “China’s rise” may appeal to Chinese pride, but it also generates profound concerns in China about whether the United States will follow the historic pattern of dominant but declining powers – initiating […]
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