Key US bases in Asia-Pacific. Source: BBC News. Role of Philippines in US Imperial ‘Pivot’ in Asia May Expand Washington has been building up the Filipino military, like others in the region, to contain a non-threatening China by John Glaser, April 30, 2012 Print This | Share This Recent joint U.S.-Filipino military exercises are a direct military [...]
China’s Rise, America’s Fall More Sharing ServicesShare|Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on email Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”? By Ron Unz | April 18, 2012 The rise of China surely ranks among the most important world developments of the last 100 years. With America still trapped in its fifth year of economic [...]
Li Changchun, China‘s head of propaganda, at the London book fair. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters David Cameron to raise Neil Heywood case with visiting Chinese official Propaganda chief due for talks as William Hague faces pressure to explain delay in raising alarm after Briton’s death Luke Harding guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 April 2012 18.10 BST Article history David [...]
Wen Jiabao promises crackdown on corruption in China Premier’s announcement of action against abuse of office follows Bo Xilai‘s suspension from party over Neil Heywood murder case China’s prime minister Wen Jiabao has promised reforms to stop abuse of power. Photograph: Yves Logghe/AP Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has promised tougher curbs on corruption and abuse of power, [...]
The Framing of Bo Xilai Or: How the East was won by Justin Raimondo, April 13, 2012 Murder and politics – they go together quite well. Wars, assassinations, violent purges: these are the woof and warp of politics, which is, after all, nothing but organized coercion or the threat of it. Combine this with [...]
The KaChing! Dynasty China will soon be home to half the world’s billionaires, so can the superrich help the superpower stay in the box seat? The Chinese economy is booming at a blistering pace. It is driven largely by the Fudai: the superrich who call the superpower home. Many are just in [...]
Image from guanwei.com.cn TAGS: Health, Scandal, Law, Internet, China,Corruption Chinese officials inhale bribes? Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 05 April, 2012, 18:19 In China, entrepreneurs say it is impossible to run your business without bribery. And the new trend – provoking an angry buzz in the local internet community – is to pay dishonest officials [...]
‘Anonymous China’ Seeks Translator After Chinese Website Attacks Apr 05, 2012 10:13 AM EST 1 Comment By Sara Yin A new, China-focused group of Anonymous hacktivists took down several hundred of Chinese websites this week to “revolt the Chinese system.” The Twitter account @AnonymousChina launched on March 30, and tweets were sent to [...]
Photograph by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao attends a meeting at the Great Hall of People in Beijing China Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Talks Like a Bold Reformer By Dexter Roberts on April 04, 2012 Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Google Plus 8 Comments Related China’s Local Debt Is No Problem, Wen Says VIDEO Wen Says Yuan [...]
Southeast Asia Nations, China Bring Rift to Summit Amid tensions in the South China Sea between China, the Philippines, and Vietnam, other Southeast Asian Nations are split over how they should deal with the region. China has recently called for peace while thePhilippines and Vietnam have developed stronger military ties with each other as well as with the United [...]
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Grass-mud horse shown on the fifty-cent bill. Word of the Week: Fifty Cents Editor’s Note: The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert [...]
China Beyond the Stereotypes Transition From the Sweatshop of the World by BEHZAD YAGHMAIAN For many the Retraction of the Apple story by This American Life turned Apple from a labor abuser into a corporation with best practices. Others saw this as a proof of yet another corporate cover-up and PR campaign by Apple. Meanwhile, [...]
China Beyond the Stereotypes Transition From the Sweatshop of the World by BEHZAD YAGHMAIAN For many the Retraction of the Apple story by This American Life turned Apple from a labor abuser into a corporation with best practices. Others saw this as a proof of yet another corporate cover-up and PR campaign by Apple. [...]
Bo Xilai was tipped to join the country’s top political group in this autumn’s leadership transition. Photograph: Jason Lee / Reuters/Reuters Britain has asked China to investigate the mysterious death of a British businessman with ties to the family of an ousted Chinese leader. Neil Heywood’s sudden death at a hotel in Chongqing last November, blamed on [...]
by Pepe Escobar China’s riders on the storm | Print | E-mail Sunday, 25 March 2012 11:11 By MWC News Share Link: Comments and Reactions Not many people outside China are familiar with foggy Chongqing, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in the heart of Sichuan province. Well, this is the biggest megalopolis in the world: [...]
An aerial view of the centre of Shanghai Photograph: AP Martin Jacques The Observer, Sunday 25 March 2012 Article history Why do we continue to ignore China’s rise? Arrogance Martin Jacques, author of a bestseller on China, asks why the west continues to approach the rise of the new global powerhouse with a closed mind. We [...]
Customers queue up to purchase the new iPad 3 at the Apple store in Hong Kong this month. Hong Kongers fear for the future of an orderly queue as more visitors arrive from the mainland. Photograph: Alex Hofford/EPA Hong Kong’s weekend “election” comes against a backdrop of growing cultural antagonism with mainlanders to the north [...]
AFRICOM Report: Combating Chinese Economic Encroachment in Central Africa Written by Nile Bowie Since the time of the British Empire and the manifesto of Cecil Rhodes, the pursuit of treasures on the hopeless continent has demonstrated the expendability of human life. Despite decades of apathy among the primary resource consumers, the increasing reach of social media [...]
Tania Branigan in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 March 2012 16.10 GMT Article history How can a country that is still developing cope with what some call a demographic timebomb? Link to this videoWhile hundreds of millions of Chinese families toasted the new year together, 84-year-old He Daxing huddled on the doorstep of his daughter’s home [...]
By WAYNE MA BEIJING—China raised its heavily regulated gasoline prices by 6.4% and diesel by 7%, the second increase this year for the world’s No. 2 economy, as it grapples with the rising cost of crude. Still, the increase suggests Chinese officials are comfortable with inflation levels, which could be an encouraging sign for those [...]
Heavy pollution surrounds the China Central TV building (right) in Beijing on 18 January, 2012. Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images China‘s challenges: political change, pollution and protest Leading commentators outline the problems – and opportunities – ahead for Beijing Share8 reddit this guardian.co.uk, Sunday 18 March 2012 19.30 GMT Article history Politics People are getting more and more [...]
Xi Jinping, who is expected to take over as general secretary, then president of China. Photograph: Reuters It was the greatest political upheaval in years, but it may not be the last.China‘s dramatic ousting of the leadership contender Bo Xilai on Friday may have been an anomaly – or it may be a sign of [...]
Enlarge image Bayi Aerobatics Team of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force show China‘s J-10 jet fighters during an air show for the Changchun First Aviation Open Day in Changchun, in northeast Chinas Jilin province. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images China Buys Fewer Weapons as Local Industry Expands, Sipri Says By Daniel Ten Kate [...]
Workers on the line at Foxconn. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images Workers on the line at Foxconn. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images This American Life withdraws damning Apple episode Producer admits parts of This American Life epsiode were ‘fabricated’ and says show ‘should never have been put on air’ • Bob Garfield: Mike Daisey’s betrayal [...]
North Korea’s plans to honour its late leader by launching a satellite have drawn international criticism [Reuters] China has expressed concern to North Korea over its announcement of plans to send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket after the US warned that the launch would threaten regional stability. Zhang Zhijun, China’s vice foreign minister, [...]
China tests its mettle in Syria By Chris Zambelis Solidifying the People’s Republic of China’s burgeoning relationships with the countries of the Middle East remains a top priority for Beijing. The impetus behind China’s resurgent efforts to extend its influence within the Middle East stemmed from Beijing’s pursuit of energy resources to sustain its rapidly expanding economy. As [...]
Australia‘s diplomatic relations with China – Fact sheet 247 Australia has a long history of contact with China, but formal relations between the two countries only consolidated more recently. The first Chinese Consul-General to Australia arrived in Melbourne in 1909, but it wasn’t until 1921 that Australia established representation in [...]
Sun Yunliang Law amendment centers on human rights protection By Sun Yunliang 0 Comment(s)Print E-mailChina.org.cn, March 13, 2012 Adjust font size: Draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law of China was a high priority during the fifth session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC). Legislators produced draft revisions of over 100 articles, including 66 [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao (L, front) talks with deputies while attending a plenary meeting of the People’s Liberation Army deputies to the Fifth Session of the 11th National People’s Congress in Beijing, March 12, 2012. Hu stresses the safeguarding of social stability 0 Comment(s)Print E-mailXinhua, March 13, 2012 Adjust font size: On Monday, Chinese President Hu Jintao called for the People’s [...]
The United States and China on Monday held the third round of Consultations on Asia-Pacific at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The closed-door consultations were co-chaired by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai, the [...]
Shanghai‘s IC sector may post 12% climb in revenue By Zhu Shenshen | 2012-3-14 | NEWSPAPER EDITION THE revenue of Shanghai’s integrated circuit industry, which accounts for one-third of the total revenue nationwide, may grow 12 percent annually this year, higher than China‘s “zero or single-digit” expansion, according to the IC industry association. Shanghai’s [...]
Experts say no more cheap rare earths from China Updated: 2012-03-13 15:01 (Xinhua) Print Mail Large Medium Small 0 BEIJING – The era of cheap rare earth supplies from China is doomed to end as the country tightens control over the precious resources out of environmental concerns, Chinese lawmakers said on the sidelines [...]
A montage of images of children, mostly boys, who are thought to have been stolen by trafficking gangs in China. Photograph: Rex Features Chinese police rescued more than 24,000 abducted women and children across the country in 2011, the Public Security Ministry said on Sunday. Trafficking in women and children is a big problem in China, [...]
China’s economic transformation As China‘s economic boom is built on exports, where will the country turn when that starts to falter? China is an economic miracle which is built on exports, but where does it turn when that starts to falter?When China’s National People’s Congress meets once a year it [...]
Beijing: China’s trade deficit hit $31.5bn in February as exports slumped, underscoring concerns about slowing global demand and cooling growth in the world’s second-largest economy. February exports from China fell 23.6 per cent from the previous month, and rose a slower-than-expected 18.4 per cent from the previous year. The fall in exports, combined with spectacularly strong [...]
Pu Zhiqiang, well-known Chinese rights attorney The final version of China‘s new Criminal Procedure Law was released to the public on Thursday, due for passage on the closing day of the National People’s Congress in a few days. It is one of the most high-profile pieces of legislation at the annual session of China’s legislative [...]
The US continues to conduct joint military exercises with the Philippines Continue reading the main story Related Stories Philippines seeks US muscle on South China Sea Philippines seeks US defence ties Manila complains over China ships The Philippines has confirmed that it is holding military drills with the United States [...]
Bo Xilai said he felt he had trusted the wrong person Chongqing leader Bo Xilai speaks on deputy scandal By Michael BristowBBC News, Beijing Continue reading the main story Related Stories China leader absent from meeting China faces to watch: Bo Xilai China investigating police chief A Chinese politician has spoken about a high-profile scandal [...]
Remember that China fills a curious role in Australian politics. As a country with a long history of racism particularly directed at the Chinese, Australia is trying to play on both sides of the net. On the one hand we are trying to say they as [...]
Cuba and China strengthen economic relations BEIJING.— Council of Ministers Vice President Marino Murillo Jorge, head of the implementation commission responsible for the guidelines approved at the 6th Communist Party Congress, met in Beijing with Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu to discuss the progress of bilateral economic relations and other [...]
China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power Some Lessons from the Past By James Petras March 07, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 [...]
Most attention has focussed on China’s first aircraft carrier, the former Soviet ship the Varyag. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images What is China doing that is different to what the US and others have been doing for a few centuries? The answer is nothing. Once you encircles a country and place all manner of war items around [...]
Xu Weixin with one of his portraits in his Beijing studio. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian China’s Cultural Revolution: portraits of accuser and accused The Cultural Revolution was a time when pupil turned on teacher, when friend turned on friend… Now artist Xu Weixin has painted both victim and perpetrator. Tania Branigan asks him [...]
Free Syrian Army fighters chant antigovernment slogans as they hold up their weapons near a building hit by a Syrian Army tank in Idlib, north Syria, Sunday, March 4. Rodrigo Abd/AP Chinese envoy to press Syria for cease-fire China‘s special envoy to Syria is expected to press authorities for a cease-fire to end the country’s crisis. Beijing is opposed to any [...]
Is an India-China arms race brewing? As Asia’s two rising powers boost defence capabilities, we ask who stands to benefit and what it means for the region. On Saturday, the Indian armed forcesended a major military exercise near the Chinese border, while China has announced that it will increase its military [...]
China: US, Europe have hegemonistic goals in Syria By SCOTT McDONALD, Associated Press Saturday, February 25, 2012 The United States and Europe are “harboring hegemonistic ambitions” in Syria, China’s state news agency said Saturday, a day after Beijing was condemned at an international conference held to find a way to halt [...]
On two occasions in my life I found myself living close to the South China Sea. The sea became my escape from life’s pressing responsibilities. But there is no escaping the fact that the deceptively serene waters are now also grounds for a nascent but real new cold war.China takes the [...]
Nearly six million Indians are employed in the GCC states [GALLO/GETTY] London, United Kingdom - Claiming that a great deal of uncertainty hangs over the contemporary security/strategic environment in the Middle East is neither a novel statement nor an exaggeration. Although it is commonly acknowledged that the regional politics will have a stronger Islamic flavour in [...]
Pakistan‘s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani talks to China’s Premier Wen Jiabao during a singing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 18, 2011. (Jason Lee/AFP/Getty Images) China is planning a military base in Pakistan,India Today reported, citing “a secret report prepared by the [...]
