From The New York Times: Some 2,000 mourners and at least that many police officers turned out Saturday for a heavily restricted funeral service for Zhao Ziyang, as authorities took steps to ensure that the final commemoration of Mr. Zhao, the former leader, would not touch off anti-government protests. Buffeted by icy winds under a […]
Read MoreFrom The Central News Agency, via The Epoch Times: At 9:00 this morning, the farewell ceremony to former general secretary of the CCP, Zhao Zhiyang’s body is held at the hall of Beijing Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery. After the ceremony, the body is cremated. According to today’s report by Hong Kong Wen Hui Pao, four types […]
Read MoreFrom Max.com Wires: In an apparent step backward from Western-style capitalist reforms, China has ordered a more active role for Communist Party officials in managing state-controlled companies. Although Chinese corporations increasingly are modernizing management and seeking to meet international standards as they invest and issue shares overseas, party officials still call the shots in many […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: The first direct flights between bitter rivals China and Taiwan since the end of a civil war 55 years ago started carrying Lunar New Year holidaymakers amid hopes for improving cross-strait relations. Six Chinese planes landed in Taipei and one in southern Kaohsiung while Taiwan’s China Airlines and EVA Airways […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: US software giant Bill Gates (news – web sites) has high praise for China, which he says has created a brand-new form of capitalism that benefits consumers more than anything has in the past. “It is a brand-new form of capitalism, and as a consumer its the best thing that […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Comrade Zhao Ziyang, who passed away on Jan. 17 at the age of 85, was cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing Saturday morning. On behalf of the leaders of the central authorities, Comrade Jia Qinglin and other senior officials including He Guoqiang, Wang Gang and Hua Jianmin, were at the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Wired News: Hundreds of mourners braved police checks on Saturday to attend a low-key invitation-only funeral for Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party chief purged for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests. Nervous the ceremony might spark protest, China’s leaders had wanted to permit only a quick funeral […]
Read MoreFrom the National Review Online: Tense Straits — Washington signals timidity toward Chinese bellicosity. As world attention has focused in the past weeks on continuing violence in Iraq and disaster relief in southeast Asia, decisions made in Beijing and Washington have quietly pushed both countries closer toward a confrontation in the Taiwan Strait. Avoiding military […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters, via ABC News: China has proposed holding working level talks to pave the way for a fourth round of six-party discussions on ending North Korea’s nuclear arms programs, diplomatic sources said on Friday. The proposal was made as the international community is trying to persuade the reclusive communist state to abandon its […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “Although carefully censored, the death reports concerning ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang are stirring political grievances in China and might still become – as feared – a rallying point for protests and demonstrations, though analysts say worries of major protests are exaggerated. A low-key memorial service is to be held […]
Read MoreSerene Fang was a very good student in the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Last year, she started work for PBS and made a trip to Xinjiang. Here is her unforgettable experience from that trip. Watch Video Rimmed by snow-covered mountains, Xinjiang is a mostly desert province in western China that is home […]
Read MoreFrom The Reuters, via Washington Post: “Uncertainty ahead of a Group of Seven and key emerging nations meeting next week hemmed major currencies in recent ranges on Friday, with speculation over China’s yuan policy taking center stage. The yen fluctuated sharply as comments from Chinese central bank officials stirred talk on whether or not China […]
Read MoreFrom the Business Day: “China’s coal shortage is expected to worsen this year as supply fails to keep pace with mounting demand from the country’s rapid industrialisation, state media said Friday. Coal consumption is expected to increase 6.0 percent or 120 million tons to 2.1 billion tons this year, Pu Hongjiu, deputy director of the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Yahoo! News: “China will bar dissidents from a weekend memorial for Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, but will allow some 2,000 other mourners to take part, an activist close to Zhao’s family said Friday. ”
Read MoreFrom Yahoo! News: “China tightened controls today over funeral arrangements for deposed leader Zhao Ziyang, censoring the guest list, banning government cadres from attending and tearing down grass-roots memorials. ‘They’re forbidding current government officials from all levels from attending,’ said a nephew of Zhao’s, who declined to be named.”
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