In contrast to the NY Times article today stating that Jiang Zemin may intend to resign from his military post, Asia Times reports that Jiang is in fact winning the power struggle with the Hu-Wen leadership – especially in regards to the debate over a “peaceful rise” policy advocated by Hu. The author, John J […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “The ICT industry accounts for 25 percent of the UK’s export to China, and 23 percent of mobile phone users worldwide live in China. With such great potential and high level information industry, China provides good opportunities for companies to develop ICT industry…… About 100 UK ICT companies are attending UK-China ICT Week, […]
Read MoreThis article address nationalism issue from a Korean perspective. “Recent disputes between Korea, China and Japan over history issues are often called “the history war in Northeast Asia” because many experts here regard them as a precursor of hegemonic competition in the region. Political analysts see nationalism at the center of the latest confrontations over […]
Read MoreReuters: “China has put the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydro-electric project, on flood alert, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday after rain and mudslides killed 76 in areas to the west. Water levels at hydrological stations were above “warning levels” and rising and navigation on the giant reservoir above the dam had been […]
Read MoreToday’s New York Times: “Jiang Zemin, China’s military chief and senior leader, has told Communist Party officials that he plans to resign, prompting an intense and so far inconclusive struggle for control of the armed forces, two people with leadership connections say. ” Read Joseph Kahn’s entire article here. China Photos via Reuters Portraits of […]
Read More“China has intensified its battle against Internet and mobile phone pornography by threatening distributors with life in prison, Xinhua news agency said. “Depending on the seriousness of the cases, the sentences range from living under compulsory surveillance, detainment, taking into custody by the police, to various terms of imprisonment and life imprisonment,” Xinhua said. Beijing […]
Read MoreThis article is from Wired magazine. “China is staring at the dark side of double-digit growth. Blackouts roll and factory lights flicker, the grid sucked dry by a decade of breakneck industrialization. Oil and natural gas are running low, and belching power plants are burning through coal faster than creaky old railroads can deliver it. […]
Read More“Six Chinese provinces and municipalities will adopt an experimental framework for calculating ‘green GDP’ by the end of the year.” “The introduction of the ‘green GDP’ concept – loosely taken to mean official gross domestic product figures minus the cost of pollution and resource depletion – is a major initiative in the central government’s push […]
Read More“China expects to have 140 million automobiles plying its roads by 2020, seven times more than now, fuelling huge demand for transportation infrastructure and services, state media reported. China’s auto population would eventually reach around 250 million, or about 150 cars per 1,000 people, deputy director of the communication ministry’s comprehensive planning department, Li Xinghua […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhuanet: “Chinese major telecommunication operators got together with an academic network to unveil their version of the development strategy of China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) during a seminar on Friday” The full article is here.
Read MoreChina Daily reports today on the formulation of a new national health strategy to tacke chronic diseases: “While SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and avian influenza and other more “high-profile” diseases have captured the headlines, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are often referred to as “silent epidemics” that do more harm to the nation’s health. Indeed, NCDs, […]
Read MoreAP reported that the US government is continuing to discourage China from establishing government telecommunications standards: “Now, with China testing competing systems and moving toward its own standard known as TD-SCDMA U.S. policy is to urge governments in China and elsewhere to let companies choose freely. ‘I never met a carrier that didn’t express a […]
Read MoreToday the OpenNet Initiative released a new report about Internet censorship in China. While a number of studies have established that China blocks search results about certain political, cultural, and religious subjects (see this report, for example), the new study takes the investigation a step further by looking at China’s filtering of the Google cache. […]
Read MoreThe power struggle between Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin is becoming increasingly heated and open, according to a report in today’s IHT: “Tension between Jiang, the country’s semi-retired senior leader who still heads the military, and Hu, who replaced Jiang as Communist Party chief and president nearly two years ago, has begun influencing debates on […]
Read MoreAP reports: “China plans to build dozens of nuclear power plants in coming years to help relieve severe electricity shortages. The government hopes to rely on nuclear energy to meet four percent of its electricity demand by 2020. ” (via: Kron4.com)
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