Thanks to David Cowhig for sending the following in to CDT: I’ve just started reading “Reform of the Chinese Political System” by Zhou Tianyong and collaborators. He is the vice director of research at the Central Party School and the book has a foreword by Li Junru, vice president of the Central Party School. The […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: A grass-roots Chinese campaign to keep Japan out of the United Nations Security Council has gathered some 22 million signatures, increasing the chances that China will block Japan’s bid to join the elite group, organizers and analysts said Thursday. The petition effort, conducted through popular Chinese Web sites, enjoys tacit […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via washingtonpost.com: China’s southwestern province of Yunnan will require annual AIDS tests for people working in hotels, nightclubs and other entertainment outlets, a local official and the government’s Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. Under the new rules, announced Monday and effective immediately, those testing positive will be fired, Xinhua said, citing the text […]
Read MoreFrom Green Left Weekly: In 1997, Beijing formalised a policy to massively extend the 1990s “experimental” privatisation of state firms. The big state firms were said to be off limits, but what constituted “big” was never spelled out. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission was mandated by the State Council ” the central government’s […]
Read MoreOrville Schell has published an essay in Time Asia on China’s failure to deal with its history: By the time former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and Premier Zhao Ziyang died in January, he seemed to have...
Read MoreFrom The New York Review of Books, via A Glimpse of the World blog: He Qinglian, the economist and journalist whose book China’s Pitfall[1] exposed the ways in which officials in control of state-owned resources used their power to make huge unearned profits during China’s economic boom in the 1990s, has now written an account […]
Read MoreAt the conference “China: European and American Democracies Face the Challenge,” held on February 24 – 25, 2005, in Prague, Czech Republic (organized by the Czech Civic Center and the Project for New American Century), this author argues that “China’s economic growth has not been translated into meaningful protection of each and every Chinese citizens’ […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: “The death of a political figure, particularly an acknowledged hero, often provides propagandists enormous opportunities. Not so in the case of disgraced former premier and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Zhao Ziyang, who had initiated political and economic reforms – but supported the pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square – and was […]
Read MoreFrom UPI, via China National News: “A high-ranking mainland official told a visiting delegation of influential Chinese Americans that Taiwan independence threatened Asia-Pacific security. State-controlled media quoted Councilor Tang Jiaxuan as saying Tuesday that separatist attempts by Taiwanese independence forces were a realistic threat to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and the Asia […]
Read MoreFrom the Reuters: “China has stepped up controls on dissidents in an attempt to prevent public mourning for ousted Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, whose death on Monday has sparked fears among the leadership of possible...
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