From 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 […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: “Driven by one the largest and most sustained economic expansions in history, and facing bottlenecks and shortages in Asia, China is increasingly turning to South America as a supplier. It is busy buying huge quantities of iron ore, bauxite, soybeans, timber, zinc and manganese in Brazil. It is vying for tin […]
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: “The Niu Niu Incident in Shenzhen has yet to catch attention from the Western media but it is certainly going to be as significant as other incidents that have caused us to ponder the dynamics of the Internet and Chinese populace’s emboldening cry for social justice and reigning in corrupt officials.” Thanks to […]
Read MoreFrom New York Times: “……Beijing is making a big push to market itself and its language, similar to the way the United States promoted its culture and values during the cold war. It is not a hard sell, particularly to young Asians eager to cement cultural bonds as China deepens its economic and political interests […]
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