Here is the full text of the UN Secretary-General’s speech at Qing Hua on October 11, 2004. He highlighted issues of poverty, disease, and environmental degradation in his speech. THE SECRETARY-GENERAL SPEECH AT QING HUA UNIVERSITY Beijing, 11 October 2004 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honour for me to speak at one of […]
Read MoreWang Chu wrote a very interesting article on Asia Times Online today: “Over the past few years, Chinese scholars have begun to re-examine the cause of the collapse of the former superpower Soviet Union and the Eastern European bloc from an independent and academic perspective. Their conclusions do not necessarily coincide with the established version […]
Read MoreThere has been a wave of protests on the internet and from Chinese democracy and human rights groups after Chirac made the remark that the EU should end the arms embargo on China, which was imposed after the 1989 massacre of student protesters, because the massacre was a thing of “another time.” The protest statements […]
Read MoreAs the world marks The World Day Against the Death Penalty, China’s large numbers of annual death sentences and executions once again are under the spotlight, as reported in this story, Does China execute 10,000 people a...
Read MoreFrom New York Times today: “The government uses China’s 800 million farmers to provide grain, labor and capital for urban development. State banks take deposits in rural areas but make loans almost exclusively to richer ones. The authorities pour resources into prestigious urban projects, like the $1.24 billion Shanghai spent to build a state-of-the-art Formula […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Program Manager Frank Yu argues that Beijing’s Haidian District (ʵ∑Ê∑ÄÂå∫), which includes the Zhongguancun (‰∏≠ÂÖ≥Êùë) technology zone, provides a glimpse of China’s high-tech future. According to Yu, innovations in Haidian demonstrate that China is “set to lead the world” in developing mobile devices and applications. One Zhongguancun company with aspirations to become a world […]
Read More1pai.com, an online auction site launched by Yahoo and Sina, is overtaking EBay in China, according to a report in Bloomberg: “EBay, the world’s largest Internet auctioneer, faces a threat to its No. 1 position in China, the biggest battleground after the U.S. in a global market for Internet-auctioned goods worth more than $30 billion. […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet today:“According to a recent poll, about 47 percent households in Beijing have connected to the Internet till the first quarter of 2004, reported China Radio International on Monday. Two thirds of those families chose broadband connection services, while others prefer to use the dial-up access. ”
Read MoreBBC’s reporter Tim Luard sent this article from Chongqing: “Rural areas did well under the first phase of China’s economic reforms. But since then agriculture has been neglected. The abandonment of free public health and other welfare systems and the decision to let some parts of the country get rich before others have all contributed […]
Read More“It was a quiet political earthquake, though political aftershocks are still being felt and will continue to rumble through and quite possibly transform the political landscape. China’s “phantom regent” and very real military commander-in-chief Jiang Zemin finally stepped down last month, yielding to moderate reformer Hu Jintao (now president, party chief and military commander) and […]
Read MoreFrom AP: “Nearly 200 million Chinese are overweight, the Health Ministry said Tuesday in a report that reflected the swelling waistlines that have accompanied rising incomes. More than 160 million Chinese have high blood pressure and 20 million suffer from diabetes, while rates of those and other obesity-related ills are rising, the ministry said.” the […]
Read MoreFrench-Chinese business ties are not enough to convince all of the EU. According to this article on Deutsche Welle. ” While a flurry of EU delegations pay tribute to Beijing’s growing economic prowess, many still harbor reservations about China’s human rights record as evidenced by Brussels’ recent decision to continue the arms embargo.”
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Read MoreHuman rights advocacy groups from all over the world start to press the Chinese government to improve its record on human rights, reported LA Times. Activists say their bid to train a spotlight on human rights at the Beijing Olympics is based on a central premise: China as host should uphold the same standards and […]
Read MoreZhongguancun (‰∏≠ÂÖ≥Êùë), the so-called “Silicon Valley of China” located in northwest Beijing, is slated to become a “world center of R&D” within ten years. This new goal was announced at the 7th annual Zhongguancun Computer Festival (ÁîµËÑëËäÇ). At the same time, however, new questions are being raised about the viability of the Zhongguancun model. In […]
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