Flying high – but will it float?

From The Observer, Heather Stewart wrote: ‘China is a sleeping giant. And when she awakes, she shall astonish the world.’ The truth of Napoleon’s warning, made more than two centuries ago, is beginning to resonate in the world’s richest nations. When oil prices shot up above $50 a barrel earlier this year, it was the […]

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China’s boom take toll on staple food

From BBC: “China’s rapid economic development is eating its way into the country’s rice production” “Over the last five years, rice farmers in their millions near to big cities, and along China’s prospering coastline, have switched from rice cultivation to cash crops yielding larger profits. Millions of others have given up farming altogether, leaving their […]

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China ‘to overtake’ German

From: Finance24.com: “China is poised to overtake Germany and become the world’s third largest national vehicle producer behind the United States and Japan, according to a report appearing on Sunday in the weekly Welt am Sonntag.”

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How China Relations Improved: An Insider’s View

Via Taiwan Security Research, the Far Eastern Economic Review published an interview with Colin Powell on Oct. 28, 2004: “United States Secretary of State Colin Powell will try to jump-start the stalled talks on North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programme during visits to Japan, China and South Korea beginning on October 23, 10 days before the U.S. […]

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Passage to China

In the New York Review of Books, economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen writes about the historical interactions between India and China and their relevance for the development of the two countries today. While the two countries’ Buddhist connections have been widely studied, Sen writes, “religion is only one part of the much bigger story […]

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China eyes new turf: S. America

From The Christian Science Monitor: “When President Bush arrives here Friday for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, he’s likely to be met by student protesters already in the streets chanting against “globalization,” “colonialism,” and the US occupation of Iraq. But China’s President Hu Jintao is getting quite a different reception. For two weeks now, he’s […]

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CPC official urges stepping up college students’ ideological education

From Xinhua: “A Party and government document issued jointly in October acknowledges that ‘a number of weak links exist in the ideologicaland political education of college students in the face of profound changes of the international and domestic situations.’ Among some of the eminent issues, a growing number of students no longer live in campus […]

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Hu Jintao says China to cut economic growth

At The APEC meetings in Santiago, Chile, President Hu Jintao said that the Chinese government plans to cut economic growth to nine percent, down from 9.1 last year, according to this Bloomberg article. Hu also met with President Bush, and China pledged to work with the US to get North Korea to resume negotiations over […]

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Information restrictions magnify severity of China’s AIDS crisis

In the Taipei Times, a doctor writes about her experiences visiting China’s AIDS-plagued villages as a volunteer for Medicins sans Frontieres and the challenges facing doctors and patients in China: “This new anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, which the international community has lauded, is more open and proactive than before. But it must still operate in the context […]

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Tension rises as China scours the globe for energy

From the Telegraph: “China’s insatiable demand for energy is prompting fears of financial and diplomatic collisions around the globe as it seeks reliable supplies of oil from as far away as Brazil and Sudan. An intrusion into Japanese territorial waters by a Chinese nuclear submarine last week and a trade deal with Brazil are the […]

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Daughter of Deng Xiaoping loses job

From ABC Radio Australia: “A daughter of China’s late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has lost her position as vice minister for science and technology. 59 year-old Deng Nan had been in the post since 1998, a year after the death of her father. ”

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Petitioners losing faith, report warns

Via China Study Group, this article on the South China Morning Post says that many petitioners in China “no longer see government as their saviour. ” “Researchers from a state think-tank have warned the central government that petitioners are losing faith in it and are resorting to drastic action to solve their woes. A Chinese […]

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China Widens Economic Role in Latin America

From New York Times: “Driven by one the largest and most sustained economic expansions in history, and facing bottlenecks and shortages in Asia, China is increasingly turning to South America as a supplier. It is busy buying huge quantities of iron ore, bauxite, soybeans, timber, zinc and manganese in Brazil. It is vying for tin […]

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China’s moviegate: The Niu Niu Incident

From Chinaelections.org: “The Niu Niu Incident in Shenzhen has yet to catch attention from the Western media but it is certainly going to be as significant as other incidents that have caused us to ponder the dynamics of the Internet and Chinese populace’s emboldening cry for social justice and reigning in corrupt officials.” Thanks to […]

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