As the Chinese media is caught between market-oriented reforms and demands to provide government propaganda, some outlets are having a hard time defining themselves. CCTV has axed its news station which focused on the western regions of the country as part of the government’s development scheme and was the first CCTV subsidiary to operate as […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: “For years, psychological disorders were ignored or treated as the product of decadent foreign societies, but a flood of studies has revealed that China has some of the biggest mental health problems in the world, particularly among rural women and urban schoolchildren. Last week the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Centre reported […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer, Heather Stewart wrote: ‘China is a sleeping giant. And when she awakes, she shall astonish the world.’ The truth of Napoleon’s warning, made more than two centuries ago, is beginning to resonate in the world’s richest nations. When oil prices shot up above $50 a barrel earlier this year, it was the […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: “China’s rapid economic development is eating its way into the country’s rice production” “Over the last five years, rice farmers in their millions near to big cities, and along China’s prospering coastline, have switched from rice cultivation to cash crops yielding larger profits. Millions of others have given up farming altogether, leaving their […]
Read MoreFrom: Finance24.com: “China is poised to overtake Germany and become the world’s third largest national vehicle producer behind the United States and Japan, according to a report appearing on Sunday in the weekly Welt am Sonntag.”
Read MoreVia Taiwan Security Research, the Far Eastern Economic Review published an interview with Colin Powell on Oct. 28, 2004: “United States Secretary of State Colin Powell will try to jump-start the stalled talks on North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programme during visits to Japan, China and South Korea beginning on October 23, 10 days before the U.S. […]
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen writes about the historical interactions between India and China and their relevance for the development of the two countries today. While the two countries’ Buddhist connections have been widely studied, Sen writes, “religion is only one part of the much bigger story […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: “When President Bush arrives here Friday for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, he’s likely to be met by student protesters already in the streets chanting against “globalization,” “colonialism,” and the US occupation of Iraq. But China’s President Hu Jintao is getting quite a different reception. For two weeks now, he’s […]
Read MoreFrom the China Post: “Government agencies responsible for information security operations yesterday revealed that cyberspace attackers, allegedly mainly from China, mounted more than 5,000 assaults on various government...
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “A Party and government document issued jointly in October acknowledges that ‘a number of weak links exist in the ideologicaland political education of college students in the face of profound changes of the international and domestic situations.’ Among some of the eminent issues, a growing number of students no longer live in campus […]
Read MoreAt The APEC meetings in Santiago, Chile, President Hu Jintao said that the Chinese government plans to cut economic growth to nine percent, down from 9.1 last year, according to this Bloomberg article. Hu also met with President Bush, and China pledged to work with the US to get North Korea to resume negotiations over […]
Read MoreIn the Taipei Times, a doctor writes about her experiences visiting China’s AIDS-plagued villages as a volunteer for Medicins sans Frontieres and the challenges facing doctors and patients in China: “This new anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, which the international community has lauded, is more open and proactive than before. But it must still operate in the context […]
Read MoreFrom the Telegraph: “China’s insatiable demand for energy is prompting fears of financial and diplomatic collisions around the globe as it seeks reliable supplies of oil from as far away as Brazil and Sudan. An intrusion into Japanese territorial waters by a Chinese nuclear submarine last week and a trade deal with Brazil are the […]
Read MoreFrom ABC Radio Australia: “A daughter of China’s late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has lost her position as vice minister for science and technology. 59 year-old Deng Nan had been in the post since 1998, a year after the death of her father. ”
Read MoreVia China Study Group, this article on the South China Morning Post says that many petitioners in China “no longer see government as their saviour. ” “Researchers from a state think-tank have warned the central government that petitioners are losing faith in it and are resorting to drastic action to solve their woes. A Chinese […]
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