From Washington Post, via MSNBC: “As a growing economy produces new wealth and a spreading middle class in China, the epochal Cultural Revolution has receded to the distant past in just one generation. The millions of urban youths who were forced to abandon their books and live their teenage years with peasants have grown into […]
Read MoreWal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has conceded to Chinese government demands that it allow branches of the All China Federation of Trade Unions to operate in its China stores. The superstore recently announced plans to open ten new stores in China. The ACFTU, a Communist Party controlled organization, had threatened to sue Wal-Mart if it […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: China’s growing economic influence is such that its central bank – an important buyer of US government debt – now feels confident enough to offer blunt advice to Washington and even criticism of American statecraft. Li Ruogu, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), said Washington was now blaming […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: “More than a third of Chinese people who fall ill do not go to the doctor because they cannot afford the cost, a government survey has found. The investigation, reported by state media this week, sampled nearly 200,000 rural and urban residents. The problem is the cost of medical care is going […]
Read More“China has more cellular users than any other nation on earth. More than 300 million Chinese — more than the total number of men, women, and children living in the U.S. — have mobile phones, and that population continues to grow by millions a month. Yet China remains a laggard when it comes to the […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo News: “Anti-Japanese sentiment has grown in China over the past two years, with many citing Japan’s militarist past as reasons for their unfavorable view, a poll by a Chinese research institute showed Tuesday. The opinion poll conducted by the Institute of Japanese Studies in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences earlier this year […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “Hong Kong authorities are investigating after TV programmes beamed into China from the territory by satellite were allegedly hacked into at the weekend. Content promoting the spiritual group Falun Gong, banned on the mainland, appeared on the satellite feed and was broadcast on two Chinese TV stations. ”
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: “The number of mobile phone users, the biggest in the world, long ago outstripped the number of fixed line users, which stood at 310 million by the end of last month, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the Ministry of Information Industry. From January to October, mobile phone short message traffic […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: “Despite its geographic proximity, China for the past century played only a marginal role in Central Asia. Economically, politically and culturally, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan were firmly in Russia’s orbit. But independence in 1991 brought changes, among them the opening of the “Bamboo Curtain” to the East. Initially, it was […]
Read MoreFrom the Timeasia: “Fifteen years after the youthful activism of Tiananmen Square, a new breed of young Chinese agitators is finding its voice. Its mantra, though, is not democracy but the promotion of Chinese nationalism. Well-educated and united by the Internet, today’s activists want China to flex its muscle against any foreign power they feel […]
Read MoreThe Propaganda Department has issued an order banning reports about “public intellectuals,” a term used to describe intellectuals who are also involved in public affairs, according to the South China Morning Post, “A source said the Publicity Department, which supervises propaganda and ideological control, issued an order last week barring reports on the topic of […]
Read MoreThe Niu Niu “movie gate” scandal has been getting a lot of attention in the Chinese press, as Danwei points out, and she is on the cover of the new issue of Sanlian Life Weekly. China Daily has also reported on the scandal, here. UPDATE: LA Times had an article today on Niu Niu’s story, […]
Read MoreSecret China has published a lengthy interview with Jiao Guobiao, author of Declaration of the Campaign against The Central Propaganda Department. ESWN has translated the interview here. Jiao, who is currently in the US, says: “I think that it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak out, just as it is the responsibility of the […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: In an effort to address recent unrest fed by disparate rural, ethnic, and economic tensions, China’s leadership has embarked on a “harmonious society” campaign that emphasizes awareness of the country’s rich-poor gap, and even tacitly suggests the nation is at a social “crossroads.” At least eight major incidents of violence […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: “Tokyo and Beijing should not turn the East China Sea into “the sea of confrontation”, Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, told Hu Jintao, China’s president, in a rare encounter between the two leaders. Meeting in Santiago, for the first time in more than a year, the leaders of Asia’s two biggest economies […]
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