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'Bian Pao' - Fireworks
A selection of short quotes from the daily news on China
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There were around 100 dragons in this parade. The men carrying the dragon were shirtless, the idea was to throw fire-works at them. The hats they were wearing offered the only protection. It was considered very auspicious for the year if you could get into one of the loops of a dragon. Having attempted it, all I can say is that is very lucky allright...... it is lucky if you survive at all.
I thought fireworks was a good theme for titbits of news about China.
9th February 2010
BEIJING: Chinese premier Wen Jiabao Monday urged China and Japan to strengthen exchange and cooperation to boost mutual understanding and trust.
This fact has drawn the most attention of Western academics, who, with due respect, still lack the depth to understand that the combining of socialist principles with market economy is a historical choice for China.
President Hu Jintao recently and clearly suggested that the nation further adjust its national income distribution. China has responded, initiating broad reforms of how income is spread among the population.
More than 170 tons of milk powder have been recalled amid a 10-day nationwide crackdown on melamine-tainted dairy products, authorities have said.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi delivered a major foreign policy speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, saying that while focusing on its own peaceful development, China is undertaking more international responsibilities in a transforming and closely-linked world.
According to forecasts of economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires, growth in China’s exports and imports likely accelerated sharply in January due to growing global demand and a low base of comparison,
For some, China’s sovereign wealth fund the China Investment Corp. is the big bad wolf of global finance. Its disclosure of its U.S. equity holdings suggests it’s more like Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother
The ‘FedEx Panda Express’ arrived in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu Friday afternoon, bringing American-born giant pandas Mei Lan and Tai Shan back to their ancestral home from respective zoos in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Although most of the stakes were small, China Investment Corp., the government’s $300 billion investment fund, now owns stock in some of the best-known American brands, including Apple, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola and Visa.
The Times recently reported on the rise of Chinese-language instruction in American schools, a push supported by aid from the Chinese government.
Short answer: nope. China has the United States about where it wants it. You can make your own calculation of President Obama’s leverage over Beijing — and it’s heading south
Police in central China have arrested three people and seized money and equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in a crackdown on the country’s biggest commercial operation to train computer hackers, state media reported over the past two days.
Mr Scott (Head of the ABC, Australia's National Broadcaster) said Chinese officials had approached the ABC about the Kadeer documentary when he visited China last September. "The discussion about the film was discussion about the film in general rather than the ABC showing it or any plans of the ABC to show it," he said.
This is a more comfortable explanation for the recent word-war than simple Chinese assertiveness. A change of Chinese economic policy
All is well that ends well then? Perhaps not quite, since Washington remains worried that Japan's attempts to renegotiate the base relocation agreement could be the beginning of the end of the asymmetric US-Japan alliance.
Money has flooded into the tropical Chinese island province of Hainan for property speculation in the few weeks since the central government unveiled a plan to turn it into an international tourist resort.
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership is devoting unprecedented resources to strengthening its already formidable cyber-warfare prowess.
That is, the world’s most spectacular and most rapid-fire industrialisation is running ahead of everyone’s ability to turn the page. The tarnished credibility of Western-style financial capitalism has raised China’s self-confidence in its own economic model over the Anglo-Saxon examples mired in public debt and desperately printing money to stimulate growth.
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8th February 2010
"The argument that a strong nation is bound to seek hegemony finds no supporting case in China's history and goes against the will of the Chinese people," he said.
He also stressed that a more developed China will continue to treat others as equals and will never impose its own will on others.
"The equality we call for is not just equality in form, but more importantly equality in substance," he said, adding "all of us should embrace a diverse world with an open mind. "
"I agree with the Chinese foreign minister that the possibilities of dialogue are not exhausted [on Iran], but dialogue takes two," Ashton said.
Investment would continue to increase as a result of the government's economic stimulus measures, with focuses in agriculture, transportation, and industries relating to people's livelihood,
CHINA'S state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are more competitive with each other and less beholden to central command than outsiders often think. But there's another web of incentives that can override those corporate interests: the private interests of officials who control them.
TODAY a team of local workmen in Panama will start to dig a hole part-funded by Japan, aided by Latin American cash and big enough to hold the world's biggest Danish-owned, South Korean-built megaships. The ultimate winner, though, will be China.
Wen said the reform plan must stick to principles including emancipation of the mind from shackles of traditional concepts and system to realize scientific development in education, letting teaching faculty, instead of the administrative staff, play a leading role in schools, and advancing an equal distribution of educational resources.
6th February 2010
"China does not seek a trade surplus with the US," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu yesterday
To achieve the end, China should further promote domestic consumption, he said, emphasizing the important roles that employment and the social security net play in fuelling domestic demand. Great potentialities to expand domestic demand lie in China's ongoing urbanization process which makes new room for the growing economy and market, according to the vice premier, who also stressed coordinated development between urban and rural areas.
Zhang also pointed to Article 21 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which says "contracting parties are free to apply trade controls they deem necessary for national security." "As the arms sales to Taiwan poses a threat to China's national security, China has the right to penalize the companies," Zhang said.
China's one child policy will remain unaltered during the 12th Five Year Plan period (2011-2015), said a Chinese official, refuting rumours of a relaxation in the family planning measure, NFDaily.cn reported Friday.
There are restaurants in America that offer exotic fares too. It would be odd if a Chinese reporter stumbles across one of those restaurants (say that serves fried bull penis), then proclaims in a major Chinese newspaper: Americans eat bull penis as if it's as common as Big Macs. This is what Mr. Cohen is doing here.
Nonetheless France is highly sensitive about antagonising China, where its companies are focusing significant export efforts.
The nomination yesterday by US politicians of three detained or missing Chinese human rights activists for the Nobel peace prize is also likely to anger Beijing.
All is well that ends well then? Perhaps not quite, since Washington remains worried that Japan's attempts to renegotiate the base relocation agreement could be the beginning of the end of the asymmetric US-Japan alliance.
5th February 2010
Nanning has won a top Chinese environmental prize after it received the Habitat Scroll of Honor Award from UN-Habitat in 2007, another reward for its relentless efforts to protect its environment.
Simmering tensions between China and the United States since the beginning of the year were ratcheted up another notch yesterday, with Beijing warning Washington that a meeting between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama would further sour ties between the two global powers.
"We expect the United States to take a rational view of bilateral trade issues and to adhere to equality in negotiation. Accusations and pressure will not bring solutions," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said at a regular briefing.
There’s nothing like a big number to focus a debate. Forecasting a $1.6 trillion budget deficit in 2010, U.S. President Obama’s budget has given new life to a persistent Chinese concern ever since the U.S. declared it would borrow its way out of the financial crisis: how does China insulate its massive foreign-exchange reserves against a weaker U.S. dollar?
On the subject of Google Inc.’s complaints about cyberattacks and censorship in China, U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, in an interview this week with the American Chamber of Commerce in China, signaled his support for the upholding of “core American values,” but emphasized that corporate and state interests should remain separate.
PARIS — Reflecting a growing catalog of disputes between Washington and Beijing, a senior Chinese official said Thursday that pressure for tighter sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could block chances of a diplomatic settlement to the dispute.
BRUSSELS — China complained to the World Trade Organization on Thursday about anti-dumping duties imposed by the European Union on Chinese-made shoes, raising tensions between the trading giants.
The United States plans to unveil later this decade a new conventional "Prompt Global Strike" (C-PGS) system. It will enable the US to instantly carry out a massive conventional attack anywhere in the world in an hour or less.
After the crisis of 2007-09, the global capitalist system is in a period of transition, comparable to the great transitions of the 1930s and 1970s.
4th February 2010
"China resolutely opposes the visit by the Dalai Lama to the United States, and resolutely opposes the US leader having contact with the Dalai Lama in any name or any form," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu.
"This position is consistent and clear," Ma said.
Tibet will stick to its own path with or without the Dalai Lama, a central government official said yesterday, noting that the Chinese, including Tibetans, will decide the future of the region.
These remonstrations make interesting diplomatic theater, but a more pressing problem for China’s civilian officials is how to explain the American weapons sale to their own military.
China’s reliance on hydropower maybe be coming back to haunt it. The reason: in an age of global warming, dams are running dry.
China's efforts to cool its economy are already having an impact elsewhere - notably on export-related stocks in the United States, such as those involved in steel, shipping and natural resources. The most important monetary official in the world may now be based, not in Washington, but in Beijing.