From the Financial Times: “The youthful Chinese man making his way up the aircraft aisle after take-off from Shanghai wanted to talk business with Lee Kuan Yew, the father of modern Singapore. The 81-year-old former prime minister, a charismatic figure who inspires both respect and fear across Asia, did not expect the stranger’s approach. ‘I […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “China flag and money imageChina’s securities market regulator on Friday ordered an audit of all the country’s 130-odd brokerages, the latest step in its efforts to clean up the heavily loss-making and scandal-prone sector. The China Securities Regulatory Commission instructed brokerages in an e-mail to submit a report on their financial […]
Read MoreFrom CNN.com: “A group calling itself ‘The Islamic Resistance Movement,’ has issued a new video calling for the Chinese government to issue a statement saying it will not allow its citizens to work for Americans in Iraq, threatening to kill eight Chinese hostages. The men were shown on a video from the Islamic group that […]
Read MoreFrom iafrica.com: “China said on Friday deposed leader Zhao Ziyang made a ‘grave mistake’ in his handling of the 1989 Tiananmen protests, in its first sign that his death will not change the official assessment of his legacy. Zhao, who died in a Beijing hospital on Monday aged 85, was ousted for opposing the military […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “For Chinese communist leaders, a paper political epitaph is historically more durable than a gravestone – and more powerful: it has the ideological strength to make or break reputations and those of entire innocent families. It is a political document and legacy handed down from generation to generation of communist leaders […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “The death of a political figure, particularly an acknowledged hero, often provides propagandists enormous opportunities. Not so in the case of disgraced former premier and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Zhao Ziyang, who had initiated political and economic reforms – but supported the pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square – and was […]
Read MoreFrom Yahoo! News: “The number of Internet users in China rose to 94 million by the end of 2004, up 8 percent from the middle of the year, state media reported Thursday. The increase was led by a 37.6 percent jump in broadband subscribers to 42.8 million, according to a report from the Xinhua news […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via CNN.com: “China said Thursday its second manned space mission will take place in September or October 2005, and will involve two astronauts orbiting for up to five days. The official Xinhua News Agency said Shenzhou 6 will have a four- or five-day flight with two astronauts aboard, citing Sun Laiyan, director of […]
Read MoreThis OP-ED article is on today’s Washington Post. “The European Union should pause in its determined march to lift the arms embargo that it imposed against China for the Tiananmen Square killings of 1989. Europe is set to prove the wrong guys right about the world’s willingness to put aside outrage over human rights atrocities […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: “The death Monday of the former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang seems unlikely to spark an upsurge of reformist sentiment like the one that followed the death of his popular predecessor, Hu Yaobang, in April 1989 – events that led directly to the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown. Yet with or […]
Read MoreFrom International Herald Tribune: “No one who was there will forget the face of Zhao Ziyang, then the Chinese Communist party leader, when late on the night of May 19, 1989, he suddenly appeared among the Tiananmen students to tell them, ‘I am very sorry, very sorry, I have come too late.’ He warned the […]
Read MoreDespite China’s attempts to stop online references to Zhao, a small number of Chinese netizens have managed to express their sentiments on the internet without being censored.
Read MoreThis Editorial is from the China Post: “Mainland China’s purged party head Zhao Ziyang, who had been under house arrest for the last 15 years since the army crushed the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, died on Monday. But Beijing has remained adamant in its refusal to reassess the wrong judgment it gave on the student […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo! News: “China is to hold a funeral for deposed leader Zhao Ziyang, ousted for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, but has given no indication as to whether top officials would attend. ‘In recent years, we have reformed and simplified our (official) funeral arrangements. We no longer hold memorial services and […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: “The Chinese government on Tuesday firmly defended its decision 15 years ago to order a military assault on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and oust the Communist Party leader who objected, turning down appeals to reassess the crackdown and rehabilitate Zhao Ziyang a day after his death.”
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