From the Chicago Tribune: Anyone paying attention would notice something odd about the elementary schools here. What the government and parents are awakening to–belatedly–is the danger inherent in what they see. There are too many boys. On the morning that first-semester grades were posted at Haikou City Ying Cai school, students hustled down staircases into […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Yahoo! News: China kept a close eye on dissidents Sunday, a sign of the government’s unease over potentially widespread mourning over the death of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who fell from power for sympathizing with pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989. Zhao, who died Jan. 17, was cremated Saturday at the main […]
Read MoreThis came to us from blogger Rick Carew: Last week I found out that an obituary of the former Secretary of the Communist party Zhao Ziyang would be published by Xinhua before the end of January. This information was given to our publication so they could prepare to publish an obituary for him. This afternoon, […]
Read MoreFrom the Asia Wall Street Journal, via Utopia: China’s leaders may have convinced themselves that the country’s relatively new, albeit unbalanced, material prosperity will be enough to keep an uneasy population from peering into some of the darker corners of the country’s communist history. And the popular reaction (or lack thereof) to purged former leader […]
Read MoreFrom China Herald: Intense policing has stopped until now a public outburst on the internet, after former leader Zhao Ziyang passed away. Initially hundreds of comments flocked to different weblogs, like here at cnblog.org, where over 460 comments were registered before the section had to close down. At its archive, this section is still visible.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The problem of China’s intractable neighbor North Korea developing nuclear weapons could grow even worse for Beijing if the United States seeks United Nations Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang. Then what will China do? How will it vote? Will its problem with its old Korean ally become a Sino-US problem – […]
Read MoreFrom the People’s Daily Online: China said on Saturday it will not rush to reform its exchange rate. Senior officials attending the World Economic Forum said currency reform steps would come eventually but the world would have to wait for China to take them at its own, gradual pace. For over a year now, top […]
Read MoreFrom CNN.com: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined a gathering of Chinese community and human rights groups Saturday to honor the late Zhao Ziyang, former premier of China.
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In almost every panel discussion at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum here, there comes a moment when somebody mentions China. A hush typically ensues, as panelists draw their breath, gather their thoughts and struggle to put the bewildering vastness of the topic into a few words. “China […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Deng Xiaoping, China’s late paramount leader, famously declared after he consolidated power in the early 1980’s that his predecessor, Mao Zedong, was 70 percent good and 30 percent bad. With that numerical coda, the Communist Party closed a historical debate that had threatened to tear it apart. Hu Jintao, general […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Washington Post: China’s state newspapers stuck closely to script on Sunday, printing only the official news agency’s report on the cremation of former leader Zhao Ziyang, purged for opposing the use of force to end protests in 1989. The one-time general secretary of the Communist Party died on Jan. 17 at […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: They came from the walled compounds of the Communist Party elite and the shantytowns of the disgruntled and dispossessed, from universities and office towers, from villages and cities across China. They came to mourn the death of a man the party had hoped they would forget. Arriving in sleek sedans and […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: Venezuelan and Chinese officials have signed agreements on oil, agriculture and technology during meetings in Caracas Saturday. Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed 17 bilateral agreements and also discussed cooperation in mining, oil and gas projects, as well as technological partnership.
Read MoreIn an article in the Guardian, Isabel Hilton observes: “It is difficult to pull off the modernisation of a society as complex as China’s without relaxing authoritarian controls… Beijing routinely suppresses news of civic protest, fearful that strikes and demonstrations might coalesce into something more organised. They feared that Zhao Ziyang’s death might galvanise just […]
Read MoreFrom MENL: China has launched marketing of missiles designed for Iran. China’s Hongdu Aviation Industry Group has exhibited three variants of two new guided missiles that were designed and developed for Iran. The anti-ship missiles, displayed at the China Air Show 2004 in November 2004, were identified as the JJ/TL-6B, JJ/TL-10A and KJ/TL-10B.
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