According to an AP report: “Underlining China’s growing importance to the global economy, senior finance officials from Beijing for the first time will participate in part of the discussions by the Group of Seven major industrial nations, a U.S. Treasury official said Wednesday… Asked if the talks with the Chinese are a first step toward […]
Read MoreJon Newton wrote this article on TechNewsWorld today: “Bill Xia of DIT says that on September 15 a volunteer working with DynaWeb noticed that Google’s Chinese news was returning different results depending on whether the search was conducted in China or in the United States. ”
Read MoreFrom a security intelligence website Jane’s: “China is facing increasing shortfalls in the water resources it needs to sustain economic growth. Despite infrastructure projects to address the problem, the consequences of the shortages are already being felt internationally. The growing scarcity of water resources is becoming so critical to China’s economic well-being that minister of […]
Read MorePeter Klinger published this article on Times Online. “Chinese imports of crude oil rose 37 per cent year on year, showing no signs that rising prices have curbed demand. Customs data, released yesterday, showed that China processed a record 23.5 million tonnes, or 5.7 million barrels a day, last month.” The full article is here.
Read MoreThe NY Times has an article about Chen Si, who voluntarily works to prevent suicides from a bridge in Nanjing: “For hours on this recent Sunday morning, Mr. Chen watched and waited for that unknowable, unthinkable moment when one of the thousands of people who cross the bridge every day might try to jump off. […]
Read MoreEswn has compiled several news articles about the libel trial against the authors of the ground-breaking Investigation into China’s Peasantry (中国农民调查）。 Notable among these are two translated articles from Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly), including an interview with the defense lawyer, which are at the bottom of the post. Eswn also links to his earlier translations […]
Read MoreThe influential journal Strategy and Management has been closed, possibly permanently, reportedly because of a story about North Korea, according to a Reuters report: “‘It could indicate a tightening of political censorship,’ said the scholar, who had published several articles in ‘Strategy and Management.’ Foreign news reports said the controversial article pinned the blame for […]
Read MoreA former US diplomat John Tkacik Jr. wrote a interesting analysis about Hu-Jiang’s power transition on the Wall Street Journal. (Sub-required) “Sunday’s full transition of power to Chinese President Hu Jintao — who finally replaced Jiang Zemin as head of the military — was eagerly anticipated in the West. For over 20 years, Mr. Hu […]
Read MoreOn Xinhua’s news site Chinaview,cn, this news item today is about “foreign citizens received their Chinese “green cards” Tuesday from Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau (BMPSB) to become the earliest birds benefiting from China’s green-card policy launched on August 15.”
Read More“A new report suggests that while the benefits of sourcing in China outweigh the additional logistics costs, western companies must still be prepared to deal with significant procurement and sourcing issues if they are to prosper. Manufacturing has accounted for 60 per cent of China’s GDP growth over the past decade. The low cost of […]
Read MorePhilip Pan has written a good analysis of the leadership change in Beijing in today’s Washington Post: “Jiang’s departure might prompt new demands for political liberalization from a society that already enjoys the fruits of economic freedom. The banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, crushed by Jiang, might try to test his successors with a comeback, […]
Read MoreAP reported the Xinhua’s story that most city dwellers in poor health, with the educated most at risk “Up to 75 percent of all urban Chinese suffer from ill health, and life expectancies are declining for skilled and educated workers as modern lifestyles exact a deadly toll, according to a study by the Chinese Red […]
Read MoreFrom New Scientists, September 2004: “China’s economic revolution is coming at a cost. While improved prosperity and government incentives convinced millions of people to give up the rural life and move into towns and cities, China’s agriculture is in rapid decline, prompting fears that the country that is home to one-fifth of the world’s population […]
Read MoreNew York Times had an article on the “Wild Wild East,” the world of avant-garde Beijing architecture. “Many of the projects were commissioned for the 2008 Olympic Games, for which Beijing originally planned to spend a staggering $37 billion — more than three times what Athens paid — as it remade the city and its […]
Read MoreFormer BBC Beijing correspondent Tim Luard is back in China, 25 years after his first visit, to write a series of articles for BBC News Online on how much the country has changed. He is also writing a diary during his trip. Click here to read his fifth instalment. And his other four dairy articles […]
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