“China will launch its own next-generation mobile phone service by June 2005, a government official has told a state newspaper. China’s own 3G technnology standard aims to avoid foreign development costs and could be worth billions of dollars in licensing fees to Chinese companies. The new handsets will be compatible with existing 3G networks abroad. […]
Read MoreEvan S. Medeiros reports that the Chinese government has undertaken an internal policy debate over the use of the term “peaceful rise” (heping jueqi) to describe China’s role in international affairs. He writes: “This debate, which may continue, serves as a reminder of China’s active effort to shape external perceptions as Beijing’s power and influence […]
Read MoreChina’s domestic media has reported widely on an internal government report, which discovered 1.4 billion yuan missing from the official budget, including funds slated for Olympics projects and poverty relief funds. In one example, in Chongqing, only 0.3% of intended poverty relief funds went to aid farmers. Misuse of funds was reported at 41 out […]
Read MoreAccording to a Reuters report, cars made in China will likely flood the American market by the end of this decade. The director of the Office of Automotive Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce says that, “Global automakers lack the production capacity to meet fast-growing demand in China while also using it as an […]
Read More“China will launch an administrative supervision on the providers of electronic signature certification, according to the draft law on electronic signatures in the deliberation by China’s top legislature. The 5-day tenth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People’s Congress (NPC) opened in Beijing Monday, and began to deliberate the draft law on […]
Read MoreTwo new reference books about the Chinese media are now available: 2003-2004 China Media Yearbook & Directory, published by consultant and market research company CMM Intelligence Ltd. and China’s Media and Entertainment Law (Volume 1), produced by TransAsia Lawyers . Read a review here.
Read More“For voicing his opinion online, 40-year-old activist Du Daobin was charged with subversion earlier this month and sentenced to four years of house arrest, becoming one of more than 60 cyberdissidents currently detained by the Chinese government. “We have the legal right to overthrow this government,” he wrote in a column that was published in […]
Read MoreFrom yesterday’s Business week: “U.S. search-engine outfits are jumping into the Middle Kingdom’s surging online marketplace, sometimes buying a piece of local rivals. The search wars raging in the U.S. are spilling over to the Middle Kingdom. On June 21, Yahoo! ( YHOO ) debuted a Chinese-language search service called Yisou. That follows hard on […]
Read MoreThe Economist Intelligence Unit has just published a new research report on strategies for success in China. It is a very optimistic report. “China today is entering a new era. For foreign investors, it is no longer simply a cheap production platform or an incipient market; it is a market coming of age, and one […]
Read MoreLi Yongyan writes about the Chinese government’s hypocritical censorship policies, which ban “harmful” information for the masses but allows access for the elite in Chinese society, including foreigners. While foreign TV broadcasts from BBC and CNN are banned for the general population, for example, they are freely available for anyone who can afford a room […]
Read MoreChina has Canadian (or CANDU ) reactors. China has French reactors. China will soon have Russian reactors. And, of course, China has Chinese reactors. Want to know more about the statues of Nuclear Industry in China? Here is the Energy Information Administration (EIA) website which Includes Chinese Nuclear Industry Timeline and a Interactive Map of […]
Read MoreAfter being inaccessible for about 48 hours, Wikipedia opened up to mainland Chinese users again on June 17. During the ban, Wikipedia’s founder, James Wales commented on the event to Chinatechnews with following words: “By policy, Wikipedia is not a political site in any way. We are a general reference encyclopedia with a strong neutrality […]
Read More“Chinese Internet users got their second major search engine Monday with the launch of Yahoo’s Yisou service, which will compete with Google’s Baidu searcher. Yahoo China, the Chinese unit of the U.S. internet portal, said the launch of Yisou, which means “No. 1 search” in English, is the latest move in its efforts to become […]
Read MoreThomas Friedman just wrote this piece on New York Yimes yesterday. He started with:”If anti-Americanism is on the rise around the world, no one told the kids in the student visa line at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The quest among Chinese students for visas to study in America, say U.S. Embassy officials, has become […]
Read MoreThis is from Reuters: “China promoted 15 military and paramilitary generals on Sunday, including the top bodyguard of military chief Jiang Zemin, in a move seen by some analysts as an indication the former Communist party chief would not step down. Analysts said the promotions of the 15 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and People’s Armed […]
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