“The Group of Seven industrialized nations invited top Chinese economic officials to a dinner last Friday. It was about time that China was invited to a G-7 meeting. ” This is a commentary article on the Christian Science Monitor today, called “China comes to dinner.”
Read More“Companies need a game plan to protect intellectual property before investing in China, or risk being stripped of their ideas and opportunities, says a report released today by Boston Consulting Group. “China is home to a tangle of IP issues, with large sums of money and future strategic positions at stake,” says the report, Facing […]
Read MoreTimes online had an article today on China’s yuan rate . “Expectations of China floating its currency on foreign exchange markets, with large implications for the global economy, have dimmed after industrialised nations declined to increase pressure on Beijing. The G7 group of leading economies said, at the end of a meeting in the US, […]
Read MoreWhile welcoming certain gestures by the Chinese government, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concludes after a visit to China that its recommendations in a 1997 report have not been implemented: “Namely, the provision which stipulates that everyone shall not be consider guilty until convicted has not been amended to clearly stipulate the presumption […]
Read MoreOn a four-day tour of Mexico, the Dalai Lama said Sunday that deformed birds and other wildlife in remote corners of Chinese-controlled Tibet are indicative of nuclear waste dumping, according to an AP article. The Dalai Lama, 69, has lived in exile in China since a failed uprising against the Chinese government in Tibet in […]
Read MoreChina Daily has written about the situation of migrant workers who are flooding China’s cities: “Zhou [Haiwang, deputy director of the Institute of Population and Development at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences] specifically notes the four advantages brought by migrant workers: they make direct money for the cities; they provide abundant and low-cost labour; […]
Read MoreIn Asia Times, Colin Mackerras reviews a new book, Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland – Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, a collection of essays edited by S Frederick Starr: “Xinjiang, China’s Muslim Borderland is not the first book to focus on Xinjiang… However, it is the first to take an all-round view on Xinjiang […]
Read More“When the opening lyrics of “Dark Side of the Moon” floated through the air at a Beijing bar on a recent evening, patrons sang along to the Pink Floyd classic. “Breathe, breathe in the air,” they chanted in chorus. They seemed oblivious to the irony, in a city that is fast becoming one of the […]
Read MoreAssociated Press (via Washington Post): “China’s capital saw double on Saturday as Beijing opened its first festival for twins, attracting hundreds of look-alike siblings, a rare sight in a society where birth control rules limit most urban families to one child. Twins in matching cowboy hats, sweaters or scarves mingled, chatted and performed on stage […]
Read MoreFrom the The Goethe-Institute website: “In Berlin on the 2nd of October, 2004, an international jury composed of writers from ten linguistic regions announced the 2004 winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage . The annual Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage was established in 2003 initiated by the […]
Read MoreBeijing University recently notified Professor Jiao Guobiao, who earlier wrote a powerful essay against the Central Propaganda Department, that his course for this semester has been cancelled and that he can no longer advise masters research students. Although Professor Jiao told school officials he would not talk to the media about his situation, he gave […]
Read MoreRadio Free Asia has reported that police in Tibet shot and killed a monk who had demanded medical compensation after being beaten in custody in Machen County, Qinghai Province. “The shooting is said to have occurred at the Darlag (in Chinese, Dari) County police station after a group of monks including She Tse went there […]
Read MoreWashington Post had an article on China at G-7 meeting, and the U.S. approach on currency issues. “China made its debut last night in the club of the world’s leading economic powers, as international pressure mounts to change a decade-old currency peg that critics accuse of giving Chinese products an unfair competitive edge. ”
Read MoreChina said Thursday that it wanted Canada to return the 44 refugees who scaled the fence into the Canadian embassy in Bejing to Chinese soil. The Toronto Star reported that Chinese assistant foreign minister promised the North Korean refugees would be treated “in accordance with international and domestic laws and in the spirit of humanitarianism,” […]
Read MoreAsia Times has two articles about the slowdown in China’s automobile industry. The first, “China’s Auto Industry Slows Down” is here. The second, “Gentleman, Kill Your Engines,” explores the consequences for foreign auto makers who have invested billions of dollars in capturing the China market: “Despite figures showing rising incomes and increased consumer spending, car-sales […]
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