From the Christian Science Monitor: In an effort to address recent unrest fed by disparate rural, ethnic, and economic tensions, China’s leadership has embarked on a “harmonious society” campaign that emphasizes awareness of the country’s rich-poor gap, and even tacitly suggests the nation is at a social “crossroads.” At least eight major incidents of violence […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: “Tokyo and Beijing should not turn the East China Sea into “the sea of confrontation”, Junichiro Koizumi, Japan’s prime minister, told Hu Jintao, China’s president, in a rare encounter between the two leaders. Meeting in Santiago, for the first time in more than a year, the leaders of Asia’s two biggest economies […]
Read MoreVia Yahoo News, this analysis is written by Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, on the Financial Times. “The latest China scare story is that depositors are fleeing the state banking system and putting their money into the higher-yielding informal financial system. This makes it impossible for Beijing to slow down an […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: “China President Hu Jintao met Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s representative at an economic summit of Pacific Rim nations in Santiago, the highest level talks between the two sides in 12 years. The brief conversation between Hu and Yuan T. Lee, president of Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s top state research institute, was a “good thing,” […]
Read MoreBlogger and technology columnist Dan Gillmor was visiting Shanghai last week. He published this article in his Sunday column in the San Jose Mercury News. “China is a welter of contradictions. There are free local Internet dial-up phone numbers in big cities, where anyone can get onto the Net anonymously. But the Great Firewall Internet […]
Read MoreAs 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 […]
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