Reuters reported today: “Secrecy shrouded a meeting of China’s Communist Party for a third day on Saturday, but party sources said military chief Jiang Zemin was likely to give up his last post due to ill health, completing a leadership succession. Jiang, 78, has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks to step aside by […]
Read MoreFrom VOA: “The Internet has become a fact of daily life in so much of the world, that it is easy to forget many people have yet to become familiar with its uses. In rural China, where 70 percent of Chinese people live, many have never used a computer, much less accessed the Internet. Celia […]
Read MoreFrom United Press International: “Saudi Arabia, long the largest supplier of oil to the United States, has cut U.S. sales dramatically and is likely no longer among the top five largest U.S. suppliers. The Saudi kingdom’s new largest customer is China. ‘Saudi sales to the U.S. have fallen off the table,’ James Placke, a senior […]
Read MoreEswn has posted some beautiful photos, to express, as he writes, “the mysterious beauty and contradictions of China.” See them here.
Read MoreAccording to a report in Xinhua, “An internal survey by the Chinese Communist Party has found that more than half its higher-echelon cadres are incompetent… A recent survey by the party school of leading cadres above county level showed more than half lacked the ability to ‘make a scientific judgement of a situation’. More than […]
Read MoreIn an interview with the AFP, a WHO official says that healthcare costs will escalate in China as a lack of education and the government’s vested interests encourage the country’s smokers. One in three of the world’s smokers live in China. More than 1 million people die in China every year from tobacco-related illness; the […]
Read MoreSohu has an English site now. It is co-established with official China Daily, and will offer “news, economic news and information on sports, life and entertainment in English.” See the China Daily report here.
Read MoreThe Register site reported that “Symantec is to stop classifying a software utility that enables Chinese surfers to view blocked websites as a Trojan horse. The reassessment follows stories earlier this week questioning the designation of the widely-used Freegate programas malicious code. Freegate has 200,000 users, Dynamic Internet Technology ( DIT ), its developer, estimates. […]
Read MoreThe China Elections and Governance website has translated an article from Southern Weekend about changes in the focus of peasants’ activism in rural China: “Relying mainly on a recent Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) study, this article describes how the focus of peasant activism has moved from tax disputes to property rights, particularly in […]
Read MoreAccording to reports in the NY Times and Washington Post, Donald Keyser, a former high-ranking State Department official who worked on China, has been arrested on suspicion of providing documents to Taiwan and for concealing a trip to Taiwan. The Post story is here. The New York Times story is here.
Read MoreFrom Singapore’s Channel NewsAsia: “China’s ruling communist party has begun a four-day leadership meeting behind closed doors. Its top brass is expected to discuss ways to improve party governance amid worries that rampant corruption and official abuses are undermining public acceptance of communist rule. ” The full article is here. There are more reports about […]
Read MoreSteven Pearlstein wrote this commentary piece on the Washington Post today. (Sub required.) “To the first-time visitor, China is a country of fascinating and, at times, maddening contrasts and contradictions. There is, of course, the stark contrast between the mean life of the countryside and industrial cities and the genuinely cosmopolitan prosperity of cities such […]
Read MoreAccording to an AP report: “Toyota Motor Corp. will begin making its ecologically friendly hybrid model in China by the end of 2005, the first overseas assembly for the company’s Prius vehicle. ”
Read MoreChinese government policy has forced the country’s Muslims to exist in isolation from Muslims around the world, according to a report by the BBC. The lack of religious freedom clearly limits the ways Chinese Muslims are able to practice their faith, but the enforced isolation has an unexpected benefit, especially for women believers: “Beijing’s tight […]
Read MoreChina’s President Hu wants to consolidate power, but his predecessor Jiang Zemin has not yet faded away. This Time/Asia magazine article is about the power relationship between Hu and Jiang.
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