April 11, 2004 “Is China, with its mix of raw capitalism and tattered Leninist politics, edging toward a more liberal, middle-class state or is it hurtling toward a political seizure?” “Following is an...
Read MoreApril 11, 2004 “According to government statistics, 42 billion trees have been planted since 1982. Last year alone, the effort involved more than 560 million people. In the latest phase of the effort, announced two years ago, China plans to plant trees in an area of 170,000 square miles ” just over the size of […]
Read More“Eyes glued to the screen, 15-year-old Wang Li is mesmerised as his assembled army masses for what will prove to be the final attack. Playing Starcraft, a popular sci-fi strategy game, Wang Li is quite literally joining millions of other fans for an afternoon of internet gaming. Last year boasting 13.8 million gamers (non-official figures […]
Read MoreThis is a Christian Science Monitor commentary on April 8. “Beijing’s leaders were rattled last July when a half-million people took to the streets in Hong Kong. The protests forced officials to shelve a proposed security law for the territory. It was the biggest challenge to Communist rule in China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square […]
Read MoreDow Jones reported on April 9: “Foreign media and publishing groups, including News Corp and Germany’s Bertelsmann, are in talks with Chinese media companies on a range of cooperation deals made possible by a loosening of government control over the industry. By quietly allowing dozens of state-owned broadcasting, newspaper and other media groups to experiment […]
Read MoreSeveral high profile legal experts, lawyers, and journalists are mounting public criticism of the corruption charges used against journalists with the Southern Metropolis News (Nanfang Dushi Bao). These critics argue that the corruption charges violate new constitutional guarantees protecting private property. Several of their appeals (in Chinese) are posted online by the Open Constitution Initiative. […]
Read More(This article is translated by FBIS. ) The mouthpiece of the party tells the whole world: Now is the time “when China’s human rights condition is at its best…” This is a blessing for the Chinese people. I wish this were true. I hope all my compatriots have human rights: the right to know light […]
Read MoreThis is from Xinhua’s website: www.chinaview.cn. “Shanghai Internet penetration rate ranked the second in China’s mainland, next only to Beijing, said a report released yesterday. Shanghai’s net users increased to 4.32 million last year, a 2 percent increase compared to the previous year. The penetration rate was up to 26.6 percent, second only to Beijing […]
Read MoreBy JOSEPH KAHN Published: April 8, 2004 BEIJING, April 7 – When asked why China, with its surging economy and rising power, has not yet begun to democratize, its leaders recite a standard line. The country is too big, too poor, too uneducated and too unstable to give political power to the people, they say. […]
Read MoreApril 7, 2004 “On Oct. 14, 2003, well-known Internet dissident Luo Yongzhong was sentenced to three years in prison by the Changchun Intermediate Court for publishing an article on the Internet, commenting and criticizing on China, and placing blame on the Chinese government. Luo was formally charged with and convicted of “instigating rebellion against the […]
Read MoreAccording to today’s South China Morning Post: “A group of mainland legal and economic experts has called for a retrial of two managers of a popular Guangzhou tabloid who were jailed last month for corruption. They said the convictions by the Dongshan court were ‘a slap in the face’ for the central government’s pledge to […]
Read MoreBy Paul Taylor in New York Published: April 6 2004 17:04 | Last Updated: April 7 2004 0:28 “Lucent Technologies, the leading US telecommunications equipment manufacturer, has fired four senior employees in China after discovering potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which bans the payment of bribes overseas. Lucent said it fired the […]
Read MoreApril 7, 2004 “Why all the concentration on standards now? China’s leaders realize that if they are ever to turn the corner from being a “developing” manufacturing base for the world’s low-end products, to taking their place among the world’s developed economies, then it will be crucial to control the “business” of new technology development.” […]
Read MoreReuters Tuesday, April 6, 2004; 4:10 AM By Alison Leung and Carrie Lee Click here for full article. “The Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) passed an interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law giving Beijing full control over the territory’s political reform. The leaders of China’s parliament interpreted two clauses in Hong Kong’s […]
Read MoreApril 7, 2004 “For many years, beggars were rarely seen in the showcase cities of this country that still calls itself a socialist state. Image-conscious city officials ordered the police to arrest panhandlers and other homeless people, many of whom had traveled illegally from the destitute countryside. But in the past six months, the number […]
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