This is really good to know: According to this article, “Lessons learned from China’s 2003 SARS epidemic are spurring the country’s response to AIDS, revealed a senior Chinese government minister on Tuesday. Wang Longde, China’s vice health minister, admitted that before 2000, the country “focused more on economic development and neglected social development”. He said […]
Read MoreAccording to Reuters – “Hackers based in China have attacked South Korean government computers via two kinds viruses, prompting the country to tighten security in cyberspace, a spy agency said on Tuesday. ”...
Read MoreJuly 11 is the “World Population Day.” A Chinese population official aid that China now faces six major problems in optimizing population structure. These problems are: 1, Serious gender imbalance in newborns; 2, Population with born defects remains high; 3, Population aging; 4,Social problems caused by population migration, such as children left behind in rural […]
Read MoreRFA has published an interview with Jiang Rui, Jiang Yanyong’s daughter, on their website, as well as an article about her and her father’s experiences in 1989. She says she fears the government is preparing subversion charges against him.
Read MoreAFP has reported that 20 petitioners who came to Beijing from Heilongjiang threatened to commit suicide by jumping off a building in Beijing if the Supreme Court did not hear their complaints. Full story here.
Read MoreAn online petition demanding Jiang Yanyong’s release is now available (in Chinese) here. More than 400 people – many of whom appear to be inside China, including the Tiananmen Mothers – have reportedly signed. Via Peking Duck.
Read MorePremier Wen Jiabao has issued an urgent appeal to the public and government to make fighting AIDS a top priority. According to the BBC, Wen acknowledged that, “These last few years, Aids has spread very quickly over a vast area, causing serious epidemics in some parts… The epidemic is currently spreading from high risk groups […]
Read MoreRadio Free Asia has reported that riot police fired shots while quelling a protest in Guangdong Province. The villagers were protesting the transfer of public land to the local government, which then sold it to a public developer for a huge profit. A local official told a RFA reporter: “The police dispersed the protesters with […]
Read MoreThe New York Times has published a piece about the important book published last year, “An Investigation of China’s Peasantry” (Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha), which was banned for revealing too much about the plight of China’s underclass. The authors are now being sued for libel. One of the authors, Chen Guidi, is quoted as saying: “We […]
Read MoreFollowing Philip Pan’s very good report on Jiang Yanyong’s detention, the Washington Post has now run an editorial condemning the arrest. It is available here. The piece links Jiang’s arrest with the apparent political struggle between Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin: “Dr. Jiang’s detention clearly demonstrates that China’s leaders are in no mood to progress […]
Read MoreThe Hoover Institution‘s publication, China Leadership Monitor has an article about China’s regional disparities and political tensions on this issue. The author is Professor Li Cheng. He wrote: ……China has witnessed a tidal wave of foreign-educated Chinese returning to their native country since 2000. A quarter-century-long effort to train China’s best and brightest overseas now […]
Read MoreAccording to an AFP report, “Hong Kong hospital chief Leong Che-hung became the second high-profile health official to quit in 24 hours following a scathing report into last year’s SARS outbreak. ” Leong’s resignation comes a day after Hong Kong health minister Yeoh Eng-kiong quit after being criticized for the slow response to last year’s […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor reports that the Chinese government is becomingly increasingly uneasy with the flourishing Asian democracies at its borders – especially since the experiences of China’s neighbors belie the government’s standard reasoning of why democracy is not suitable to China: “Indonesia is very instructive,” says a European scholar in Beijing. “We are always […]
Read MoreAccording to news reports, China is planning a military rehearsal of an “invasion” of Taiwan: “The 18,000-man mock landing on the beaches of Dongshan Island is to involve amphibious assault craft, Russian-built fighter jets and submarines operating in the Taiwan Strait to ward off a simulated counter-attack by the US Seventh Fleet,” the Australian reports. […]
Read MoreThis is a recent report on NewScientist.com: “The bird flu that ravaged east Asian birds earlier in 2004, and killed 23 people, is a super-fit mutant that evolved in southern China, reveal scientists. It emerged in ducks and chickens over the past two years, they say. The Chinese scientists who traced the H5N1 flu virus’s […]
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