From the ZDNet: “Microsoft’s reported US$3.6m contract win in Beijing has not been met with universal approval in China, where concerns over software from outside are growing. There is growing disquiet about public sector IT contracts being awarded to Western vendors in China, a country long known for its fondness of open source and homegrown […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: “Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signalled the country was in no rush to reform the yuan, and questioned why more hadn’t been done to stop the dollar’s slide, the strongest words yet of concern by Beijing about the weakening U.S. currency. China needed a stable economy and healthy financial system before reforming its […]
Read MoreFrom the Joong Ang Daily: President Roh Moo-hyun and China’s President Hu Jintao met on July 7, 2003. The meeting was a starting point to arrange the first round of six-way talks to replace the U.S.-North Korea-China format that had been used before. A senior Seoul official recalled, “President Roh sent a message to North […]
Read MoreFrom today’s Christian Science Monitor: “When a gas explosion at 7:10 a.m. Sunday left more than 160 Chinese miners trapped thousands of feet underground, the story hit world news shortly after 10. For disaster reporting here, three hours is pure lightening speed. Horrific mining disasters on Oct 20 and Nov. 20 in central China, likewise, […]
Read MoreThe Guangdong party secretary has criticized the Hong Kong media for reporting on recent protests in the province, which have been blacked out in the mainland media. Lin Shusen told reporters that he doesn’t believe there has been an increase in the number of public protests and said, ‘It’s normal for people to go to […]
Read MoreDr. Peter Hays Gries from the University of Colorado at Boulder just published this OP-ED piece on the Denver Post: “American talk of “China’s rise” may appeal to Chinese pride, but it also generates profound concerns in China about whether the United States will follow the historic pattern of dominant but declining powers – initiating […]
Read MoreEurope is beginning to feel threatened by China’s growing dominance in the high-tech sector, according to a new report by the European Union: “The annual ‘competitiveness report’ by the European Union’s executive commission warns that China is ‘turning itself into a low-cost competitor in high-skill industries’. The lesson for companies in the West is that […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Marnila Times: “China would seem to be a scary neighbor for Southeast Asian nations, with its roaring economy that’s vacuuming up vital jobs and foreign investment from the region. But leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were shelving some of their anxieties about China’s growing economic power and seeking […]
Read MoreFrom Associated Press, via SFGate.com: “An explosion tore through a coal mine in central China on Sunday, sending smoke billowing from air vents and trapping at least 166 miners in tunnels and shafts below without communications, the government said. Some 127 workers managed to escaped the state-owned mine, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: “Early in Zhang Yimou’s “House of Flying Daggers,” the hero, Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro), unsheathes a sword to slice the buttons off a showgirl’s robe. This scandalizes onlookers despite the setting – a brothel. Later, the drunken Jin pulls the dancer to the ground, flips her over and tears her dress. […]
Read MoreESWN has posted a translation of a lengthy special report in Mingpao Weekly about the Investigation into China’s Peasantry (中国农民调查） libel case, which includes significant information about the two authors and their reporting of the book, which won them the prestigious Lettres Ulysses award. The full post is here.
Read MoreWilly Lam writes that China’s recent diplomatic foray into Latin America is presenting a challenge to the US in its own backyard. During his recent trip to the region, President Hu pledged to invest $100 billion in Latin American countries over the next ten years, up from $1.04 billion invested by Chinese state-owned enterprises last […]
Read MoreFrom the People’s Daily: “China has a population of 1.3 billion. Any small difficulty in its economic and social development, multiplied by this figure, could become a huge problem. Any considerable amount of financial and material resources, divided by the 1.3 billion also makes only a tiny handful in per capita terms.”
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: “Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing brushed off on Saturday comments from his Japanese counterpart that Tokyo should stop its flow of economic aid, saying that China could get by fine on its own. Li’s comments come at a time of cooling Sino-Japanese ties due to a series of simmering disputes, including Japanese […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post, via the Seattle Times: “Stirrings of unrest have emerged among the millions of youthful migrant workers who supply seemingly inexhaustible cheap labor for the vast expanse of factories in China’s booming Pearl River Delta, raising questions about China’s long-term future as world headquarters for low-paid outsourcing. Stella International, a Taiwanese-owned shoe […]
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