From the Guardian: More than four-fifths of the wetlands along northern China’s biggest river system have dried up because of over-development, the state media reported yesterday in the latest warning of the dire environmental consequences of the country’s economic growth. Fifty years ago, the Haihe river and its tributaries formed an ecologically rich area that […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: By 2050 China will have eradicated poverty, established itself as a world power in science and lifted the average lifespan of its billion-plus citizens to 80 years, according to two blueprints for the future published yesterday. Even by the standards of a country that has a passion for long-term economic plans, the […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Dongshigu is a village that the Chinese authorities would like the outside world to ignore. This community of 400 farmers is located in Shandong province, the origin of the Confucian ethical code that has dominated the nation’s morals for more than 2,000 years. But it is now the site of one of […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country’s leading civil rights activist has told The Observer. Gao Zhisheng, a firebrand lawyer who has defended hundreds of victims of torture and persecution, […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian, via A Glimpse of the World: Google, the world’s biggest search engine, will team up with the world’s biggest censor, China, today with a service that it hopes will make it more attractive to the country’s 110 million online users. After holding out longer than any other major internet company, Google will […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian: For decades it was a crime punishable by imprisonment or death. Then it became a mere social taboo to be furtively practised away from disapproving eyes. But now, being wealthy is a cause for celebration, prompting thousands of Chinese millionaires to come out of the closet.More than 20 years after Deng Xiaoping pronounced […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited: China, the greatest economic success story of the 21st century so far, is calling on its growing middle class to share more of its good fortune with the needy. The government has made an appeal for charity amid rising criticism that the spirit of philanthropy is developing a lot less quickly […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Compared with the arguments taking place in negotiating rooms and the riots in the streets of Hong Kong this week, there was a deafening silence surrounding China’s growing role in the global trading system at the WTO talks last week. Even though this giant nation has arguably benefited more than any other […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: He is the man who beat Google to dominate the world’s fastest-growing internet market, and he has done it by building a search engine with a distinctly Chinese character. Robin Li ‘s Baidu.com is a search engine that is weak on piracy and strong on censorship. It is very much in keeping […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Hong Kong was braced yesterday for its biggest security operation since the handover from British rule in 1997 as thousands of international protesters began flying in to try to derail the World Trade Organisation summit later this week. To prevent a repeat of the violence that disrupted the last two summits in […]
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