From the Guardian: The forests of Zhangjiagang are horizontal: tens of thousands of felled, stripped trees lying on the quayside of China’s biggest timber port, far from their roots in Indonesia, Russia, South America and Africa. The trunks of pine, maple, merbau and zebra wood are dead, but this forest is growing. Every year, more […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Jonathan Watts reports from Huankantou where protesters angry at corruption and poverty repelled 1,000 riot police. But now fear is replacing euphoria. There is a strange new sightseeing attraction in this normally sleepy corner of the Chinese countryside: smashed police cars, rows of trashed buses and dented riot helmets. They are the […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Reports that two elderly women were killed during a protest against factory pollution have sparked a bloody riot by thousands of villagers in eastern China. Several dozen police officers were injured, five seriously, during the clashes in Huankantou village, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. It was the latest of several recent violent demonstrations, […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: The descendants of Communist party’s former nemesis are making their first ever high-level visit to Beijing. What’s going on, asks Jonathan Watts Time is not just a great healer, it can play some amusing tricks as well. Or so it would seem after an encouraging new development in relations between the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Beijing has some of the most downtrodden taxi drivers on the planet. According to the China Daily, the average cabbie works 106 hours a week, and takes home only 1,817 renminbi (¬£120) a month. Even as China’s economy steams ahead, their earning potential is slowing down. Traffic volume has doubled in less […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Michael Swing does not have to go back far to remember the bad old days in Macau, when Triad gangs were blowing up cars and spraying bullets at each other in shopping malls. …Since it was handed back to Chinese rule in 1999, the territory has experienced one of the most spectacular […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: “Someone has snitched. The security men are coming. Shut the door, close the curtains and stay quiet.” Moments later, footsteps outside. A rap on the door. A mother squeezes her child tightly to her breast to muffle his cries. An older woman holds back sobs, her eyes red with tears. Two others […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: Hong Kong will enter uncharted constitutional waters today when its unpopular chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, is expected to announce he is standing down in favour of his deputy, Donald Tsang. Amid fears that Beijing is engineering the first change of leadership since the British handover of power in 1997, Hong Kong democrats […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: China will spend an extra 12.6 % on its armed forces this year, the government announced yesterday, adding to Washington’s fear that the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait is tilting towards Beijing. The sharpest rise for three years, it will give political ammunition to US congress members who have threatened […]
Read MoreJonathan Watts reported on Zhao’s funeral, noting at the end that: “Earlier this month British Foreign Office officials refused to allow this reporter to ask a question at a Beijing press conference for Jack Straw because the topic – Zhao Ziyang – would offend the hosts. ” Earlier, he wrote an overview of Chinese media […]
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