From The Los Angeles Times: “China has contributed $1 million to help organize Sunday’s election in Iraq, raising questions at home and abroad about how a country that supports balloting in another land can deny its citizens a chance to vote for their leaders. As China gains a growing role on the global political and […]
Read MoreOn the left is a photo from AFP: a man who was beaten after he was caught with a white paper flower pinned to his shirt, a traditional Chinese symbol of mourning, to mark the death of former leader Zhao Ziyang in Beijing. According to AFP, the pictures were posted on Web sites yesterday. From […]
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. ‘Some of them, especially from Henan, […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian Unlimited: “As China’s newspapers have observed in the run-up to next week’s spring festival, their country and its citizens are on the move like never before. But the events of the past fortnight have proved one feature of national life is still stuck firmly in the communist dark age: draconian censorship of […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: “The Chinese government took control of memorial arrangements for Zhao Ziyang on Thursday, ending protracted and sensitive negotiations with his family about how to mark the death of the Communist Party chief ousted for opposing the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. Ten days after Zhao’s death at the age of 85, family […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: “Japan is considering phasing out yen- denominated loans it provides to China as soon as fiscal 2008, Nikkei English News reported, without citing anyone. The yen loans constitute about 90 percent of Japan’s official development assistance to China, Nikkei said. Japan has already reduced its development assistance to China to 108 billion yen […]
Read MoreFrom RedNova News: “China has banned 50 electronic games, including FIFA Soccer 2005 and Microsoft’s Age of Mythology, as part of a campaign to combat what it sees as harmful influences on the young, state media said. As well as cracking down on computer software, the government will also focus this year on ‘illegal publications’, […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaView.cn: ” Powerful arguments over the possibility of abolishing the death penalty in China have been voiced following the academic conference “the International Symposium on the Death Pnalty” held last month at Xiangtan in Hunan province. Legal experts at the conference argued that China would need to limit the use of capital punishment when […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “China last year surpassed the US to become Japan’s biggest trading partner for the first time since records began, underlining the importance of the Chinese economy to Japan’s faltering recovery. Total trade with China, including Hong Kong, reached Y22,200bn ($214bn), against Y20,479bn for the US, according to preliminary figures from the […]
Read MoreFrom the Canada Free Press: “Paul Martin is not the only Western leader to promote trade with China while ignoring that country’s terrible human rights record. There may be something to the argument that as China progresses economically, the human rights abuses will lessen. But on a recent trip to the Peoples Republic of China, […]
Read MoreFrom the Asia Times Online: “The China Daily reported on January 22 that 13 persons were killed and 18 others injured in two separate explosions in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, coinciding with the Eid-al-Adha religious festival. In the first incident, nine passengers were killed instantaneously and two others later died after an explosion on […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “A controversial Tibetan lama – to China he’s a subversive and a terrorist and to many Tibetans a saint and patriot – has been spared execution, a bullet to the back of the head. A Chinese court on Wednesday commuted the death sentence of Lama Tenzin Delek to life imprisonment, according […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “Despite the government’s efforts to cool down the scorching economy, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) totaled 13.65 trillion yuan (US$1.65 trillion) in 2004, jumping unexpectedly by 9.5% year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said here on Tuesday. Record levels of exports and a surge in farm production and retail sales […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg.com: “China’s power shortage during periods of peak demand this year may be 17 percent less than in 2004 as new generation capacity starts operating, increasing electricity supply, the nation’s top economic planning body said. China may have a power shortage of about 25,000 megawatts when demand peaks this summer compared with 30,000 megawatts […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Trbune: “Taiwan and China will exchange their first nonstop flights in more than 55 years over the weekend amid hopes that the temporary charter services can pave the way for permanent direct air links. But with the two governments at loggerheads over the sensitive issue of Taiwan’s political status, analysts held […]
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