U.S. Human Rights Report Hits China, Iran

In its annual report on human rights conditions around the world, the State Department singles out China and Iran for crackdowns on activists and online speech. From Reuters:

China, long the target of U.S. criticism for violating human rights, was accused of broadening its efforts to suppress information on the Internet.
“China increased its efforts to [...]

China’s Inflation Soars to 16-mth High

Bloomberg reports:

China’s inflation reached a 16-month high, industrial output climbed and new loans exceeded forecasts, adding to the case for the
government to pare back stimulus measures.
Consumer prices rose 2.7% in February from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said in Beijing on Thursday, compared with the 2.5% median estimate of 29 economists surveyed [...]

People’s Daily: How to Improve China’s Soft Power?

An English-language editorial in People’s Daily looks at the goals of China’s soft power initiative:

On the one hand, China has been striving to build the Chinese cultural value system and increase its influence in the world, and has achieved remarkable results. For example, the country has established 282 Confucius Institutes and 241 Confucius Classrooms worldwide, [...]

Zhang Boshu (张博树): An Insider’s Account of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Part II)

China Geeks has translated a second article by Zhang Boshu, a political philosopher and constitutional scholar, about his experiences inside the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Part I is here:

Zhang joined the CASS in 1991 as an Assistant Researcher after getting a PhD. By 1993, if not for political reasons, he should have been promoted [...]

China Increases Security in Tibet to Prevent Protests

From the New York Times:
For a second straight year, the Chinese government has increased security across parts of the vast Tibetan plateau to dissuade any Tibetans from holding protests this week to mark the anniversaries of ethnic uprisings. Witnesses who have spent time recently in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, and other Tibetan areas of western China [...]

Jing Ulrich: Debunking the Myth of a China Collapse

Jing Ulrich is managing director and chairman of China equities & commodities at JPMorgan. She wrote this piece on the Financial Times:
Global sentiment towards China’s economy and asset markets has turned from exuberance just a few months ago to overriding concern about the side-effects of last year’s remarkable credit growth. A number of commentators [...]

Activists, Journalists Ask NPC for Transparency in Sichuan Earthquake Investigation

For China Media Project, Qian Gang writes about Premier Wen Jiabao’s comments to the NPC meetings advocating public and media supervision of authorities, in which Wen stated, “We must let the people criticize the government and monitor the government, giving full play to the supervisory role of news and public opinion, so that power is [...]

Yu Jianrong (于建嵘): Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability (Part 5)

Dr. Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), chairman of the Social Issues Research Center of the Rural Development Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech entitled “Maintaining a Baseline of Social Stability” before the Beijing Lawyers Association on December 26, 2009. This is part 5 of the CDT translation, here are part 1, part [...]

Mismanaging China’s Rural Exodus

A column in the Financial Times looks at the future of China’s internal migration and household registration reform, quoting a rural expert who predicts that China’s urban population will grow from 45% of the total to 70%:

The startling numbers conjure up images of mass migrations and the trebling or quadrupling in size of big cities [...]

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China to Loosen Control over Book Publishing

The Financial Times takes a look an expected changes in the Chinese publishing industry which will allow more room for private publishers to operate within the state-controlled system:

China Publishing Group, which had Rmb3.9bn in revenues last year, is a cornerstone of Beijing’s policy to keep publishing under state control while allowing private investors a limited, [...]

China’s Next Leaders Jockey for Position (Updated)

Several contenders for leadership positions when the 5th generation of party leaders take power in 2012 are campaigning during this year’s NPC meetings. From the Wall Street Journal:

They include Bo Xilai, Communist Party secretary of the big city of Chongqing, and rival Wang Yang, his predecessor in the job and now governor of southern Guangdong [...]

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After Decades of Neglect, the Site Where Chinese Laborers Were Interred Gets a Memorial

The Los Angeles Times reports on recently discovered remains of Chinese railroad workers in California whose graves had been removed but who now will be honored with a monument and the preservation of their objects for educational use:

In all, the MTA discovered 174 burial sites as well as many artifacts — including buttons, Chinese porcelain, [...]

A Sorry Spectacle

In Foreign Policy, Adam Minter delves deep into the process by which the U.S. pavilion at the Shanghai Expo was chosen and built:

On May 1, Expo 2010, the largest and most expensive world’s fair in history, will open on 2.5 square miles of prime Shanghai riverbank for a six-month run that its hosts hope will [...]

US Ponders China’s Southeast Asian Rise

Last month, the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission held a hearing on “China’s Activities in Southeast Asia and the Implications for U.S. Interests.” Asia Times summarizes the testimonies from various members of Congress, government officials, and experts:

USCC commissioner Larry Wortzel emphasized China’s rising economic influence in the region, noting that numerous China-funded resource [...]

Is Internet Access a Human Right? Top 10 Nations That Say Yes.

Stephen Kurczy reports in the Christian Science Monitor:
Perhaps because Americans can surf a number of websites cordoned off by the great Chinese Fire Wall – from the Dalai Lama’s personal web page to the Internet Movie Database – more Chinese (87 percent) see the Internet as a fundamental human right than do Americans (76 percent).

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China and India Join Climate Accord

Three months after the conference, both India and China have agreed to formally sign onto the climate change agreement reached at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. From the New York Times:

The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be [...]

Peter Hessler: Behind the Wheel, About to Snap

On China Beat, Peter Hessler writes about the role that photography played in his trip across China that spawned his new book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory:

From my perspective, the digital camera is most significant in how it’s changed the way I organize and use my notes. Digital voice recorders [...]

Warcraft Row: An Industry Game Changer

Caixin looks at Netease’s struggle to get the game World of Warcraft back online in China and the bureaucratic turf wars that the gaming industry must navigate:

NetEase is a veteran of Chinese online gaming, with seven years of industry experience. So it was stunned when a seemingly straight development path suddenly descended into a dark [...]

Google Chief Sees Outcome “Soon” in China Row

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has given a vague assurance that the stand-off between his company and the Chinese government would be resolved soon, without giving specifics. From Reuters:

Google threatened in January to shut its Chinese Google.cn portal and to pull back from China, citing problems of censorship and a hacking attack from within the [...]

China Developer’s Lament

As part of a Forbes special on the billionaires of the world, Gady Epstein profiles real estate developer Zhang Xin, chief executive of Soho China:

This is the Chinese economy in a nutshell–sellers selling a product for which there’s no natural demand, buyers buying whether they need it or not. In a market boosted by government-directed [...]

The Ant Tribe

On her blog, the Hindustan Times correspondent in China writes about a recent visit to Tangjialing, a crowded residential area outside Beijing that has become home to legions of young, educated migrants:

We reached Tangjialing after leaving behind Beijing’s smooth six and eight-lane highways and gleaming skyscrapers, the cheap KFCs and luxury malls. We drove past [...]

Holding Up Half the Sky?

The …In Shanghai blog looks at a recent UNDP report titled, “Power, Voice and Rights: A Turning Point for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific,” which reports that 96 million women and girls are “missing” from the Asian continent:

In terms of China, research published last year in the BMJ also showed that this imbalance [...]

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