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People's Daily
China vows to ensure national sovereignty
China expressed an unwavering resolve to protect its national sovereignty and to deal with disputes peacefully, Defense Minister Liang Guanglie said.
- US slaps punitive duties on China's cylinders
- Liang calls on Manila to show restraint
- Public venues to show escape video
- Experts warn on economic stimulus policies
- China backs European integration: official
- China mulls illegal drug blacklist
- Local commodities for tourists in China
Deepen strategic cooperation, promote common development
An Article written in the Run-up to the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, by Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister of China.
- Mainland urges DPP to change stance
- 60% of respondents misled by sensational news
- WHO applauds China's report on smoking harms
- HKUST hangs on for Asia's No.1 institution
- Taiwan's Sightseeing health service booms
- Cannes should not merely marketplace or show
- 'Experience Henan Online' event kicked off
China promotes world’s human rights cause
Anyone taking an objective look at the real changes in China would see clearly that China has made solid progress in human rights protection.
- FM: China-Pacific co-op promotes stability
- Former railways minister expelled from Party
- First report on intl' business Chinese released
- Chinese boy impresses US college interviewers
- Getting a cab in Beijing becomes a pain
- Individual can apply to national domain name
- Cheongsam culture booms in Shanghai
Opinions
- Construction boom could hinder economic growth
- Much-needed cooling awaits China
- Why is Washington so scared of Confucius?
- Chance to peacefuly resolve Iranian nuclear issue
China Daily
US slaps taxes on wind towers from China
Preliminary tariffs stem from complaint that Chinese companies sold exports at below cost.
Chinese firms seek overseas M&As
Propelled by the nation's rapid economic development, there is a boom in global merger and acquisition deals by Chinese enterprises.
Foreign investment 'unpredictable'
About 22% of European companies, with a presence in China, are considering transferring their investment.
Experts warn on stimulus policies
Analysts say big spending is not the best medicine for slowing economy.
Trade war unlikely between China, US
Trade frictions between China and the US will probably become more heated in the months ahead.
Solar shipments may drop 75%
Chinese solar panel shipments to North America may be cut by 75 percent due to US tariffs.
Romney's win secures nomination
Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in Texas.
Inefficient SOEs pose 'major risk'
The inefficient State-owned enterprises will pose a challenge to the success of the stimulus measures.
China's credit rating stays despite slowdown
A major international agency maintained its positive outlook on China's sovereign credit rating.
New CPC lineup holds doctorates
Among the new lineup of senior Communist Party of China officials, more than a quarter holds a doctorate.
China to start direct yuan-yen trading
China announced that direct trading of its currency against the Japanese yen will begin later this week.
Foreign banks to bolster subsidiaries
Foreign banks are standing in line to inject capital into their Chinese businesses.
Tea's refreshing change
Li Jiayi and her friends are happy to spend 1,000 yuan between them over a pot of tea.
See Kaixin's - Tea Culture in China
XinHua News
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| Senior leader says to promote Xinjiang's leapfrog development |
| Chinese President Hu Jintao and other top leaders, including Wen Jiabao, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang and Zhou Yongkang, meet with participants of the third national work conference on "pairing assistance" projects to support Xinjiang development at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. |
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| Li Keqiang meets chairman of World Economic Forum |
| Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang meets with Klaus Schwab, chairman of the World Economic Forum, in Beijing, capital of China, May 29, 2012. |
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Visiting China's top legislator Wu Bangguo arrived in Turkey's Istanbul on Monday for a two-day stopover visit after wrapping up his four-nation European tour.
Chinese wages see double-digit growth
Japan, China to begin direct currency trading on June 1
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Global Times
The welcome for the US’ “back in Asia” policy is merely superficial.
The rhetoric of China competing with India over Myanmar does not exist here.
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News and Current Affairs
Impacts of Direct Yuan-Yen Trading
CCTV Exclusive
Daniel Ryntjes
China is not a currency manipulator
China brings US tariffs to WTO
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The Wall Street Journal
Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, where the big China worry is protectionism, not currency.
Greek Tragedy Not Achilles' Heel for China
China Buys Up Spain's Assets
Spanish construction firm ACS became the latest European company to unload assets onto eager Chinese buyers, as Europe's debt woes force firms to look to China for cash.
In the midst of gloom about China’s economic outlook, new labor market data provides an optimistic counterpoint — and a possible explanation for why a long-anticipated stimulus has been slow to arrive.
Data for 2011 shows private sector wages growing 18.3% year-over-year, up from 14.1% in 2010. Wages in the all-important manufacturing sector rose 20.1%.
That’s good news for two reasons.
- Reuters
A little bit of democracy has gone a long way to improving people’s lives in China.
Such is the conclusion arrived at by four economists who recently published the results of an investigation into the economic effects of China’s village elections.
Studying elections from 1982 through 2005, the quartet found villages that elected their leaders spent 27% more, on average, on “public goods” such as schools, tree plantings and irrigation canals than villages that didn’t hold elections. Elected officials also helped vastly reduce the gap between rich and poor.
Why the gains?
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Two Big Stories, One Conclusion: China Has No 'Legal System'
The illegal harassment of Chen Guangcheng and the reign of Bo Xilai in Chongqing each in their own way signal the fundamental weakness of Chinese law and the extent to which it serves as a tool to maintain the Party’s control of Chinese society.
BYD Electric Car Passes Tests
BYD, the Chinese auto maker backed by Warren Buffett, said its e6 electric car, one of which caught fire in a collision Saturday, has passed all tests required by relevant authorities.
- Cambridge University Press
Faced with an increasingly assertive China, the United States is embracing India.
Like America, India is a democracy – an open, pluralistic society. Military planners in Washington don’t spend time fretting about war with India, the way they do about conflict with China. India’s economy, with its vibrant services sector, doesn’t pose nearly the same the challenge to the U.S. as China’s manufacturing juggernaut
In short, to U.S. policy-makers worried about the long-term threat from China, India looks like a useful counterbalance.
Not so fast, says a newly published book by George Gilboy, a researcher at the MIT Center for International Studies, and Eric Heginbotham, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation.
- Reuters
Away from the headlines over its huge trading losses, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. continues to beef up its presence in China.
As Dow Jones Newswires reports Monday, the bank said it has injected an additional 2.5 billion yuan ($395 million) into its China subsidiary, bringing the total registered capital of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank (China) Co. to 6.5 billion yuan, according to a statement.
China Real Time's China Econtracker
To save hours that would be spent navigating the maze of government websites, we present China Econtracker, an interactive tool for tracking the country's economic indicators.
The New York Times
In China, a New Round of Stimulus
Spooked by a slowing economy, leaders have begun opening the financial spigots, but they are signaling that the spending will fall short of levels during the global downturn.
For Electric Car Company, Some Recent Challenges
Investors and analysts have questioned whether the BYD Company has the technology or the manufacturing quality to be an enduring competitor in the Chinese auto market.
Former Beijing Mayor Speaks of Tiananmen Crackdown
In a new book, Chen Xitong denies years of accusations that he turned Deng Xiaoping against students and then played a key role in organizing the military assault.
Chen Guangcheng, In U.S., Has Fears For Family at Home
Chen Guangfu, the older brother of Chen Guangcheng, is back in the family’s home village after evading guards there to travel to Beijing to meet with a lawyer, an American legal scholar who is advising Mr. Chen said Sunday.
Can China Escape the Low-Wage Trap?
Can China make it as a fully modern economy and society?
Asia Times Online
Asia's exporters feel crunch
The European debt crisis and associated austerity drive are crimping exports from Asia, helping to drag down economic growth rates in mainland China and Taiwan. Beijing's reluctance to introduce recovery measures could mean harder times ahead for local business. - Robert M Cutler
A Western spin on Chinese 'xenophobia'
Furious online reaction to footage purportedly showing a drunken British man assaulting a young Chinese woman in Beijing and a 100-day visa crackdown in the capital have been painted by Western media as symptomatic of rising xenophobia in China. However, this is contradicted by conciliatory gestures from state media and the government.
- Brendan O'Reilly
Return of planners
a rising risk to China
Much of China's economic success is due to top-down planners getting out of the way of individual businesses and entrepreneurs. The risk facing the country - and the world - is that those planners will reassert control if they perceive the economy to be struggling. - Benjamin A Shobert
Wang Yang: Future torchbearer of reform?
The pro-democracy rhetoric of Guangdong party chief Wang Yang and his attempts to encourage press freedoms and competitive elections in his province have led to speculation that after his expected ascension to the Politburo Standing Committee this year, Wang could push for such initiatives to be implemented nationwide. Beijing's relentless focus on preserving stability suggests otherwise. - Willy Lam
Business before rights in Southeast Asia
The United States' strategic "pivot" towards Asia is spinning lopsidedly in an imbalance shared by Europe. On one side, there is the attempt to counter China's rising regional influence by courting and defending nations like Myanmar and Vietnam. On the other, the increasing willingness of Washington and Brussels to subjugate rights and democracy concerns in pursuit of commercial gain is a turn towards Beijing's approach. - Roberto Tofani
BOOK REVIEW
Cherry-picking from
China's success
What the US Can Learn from China by Ann Lee
This book forces the reader to confront China's growth in the midst of America's decline, drawing attention to the reasons US politics became too self-serving, too short-sighted and too partisan. The author doesn't argue the Chinese approach is flawless, but she does hold up China's single-minded fixation on economic growth and a leadership process based on experience as examples US policymakers must consider. - Benjamin Shobert
Globalization comes calling from China
Brands like Johnson & Johnson may grow market share as China's life sciences sector moves up the value chain, while others find a tougher market. Yet as competition from Chinese medical and pharmaceutical companies grows globally, multinationals will have to raise their game, or seek political recrimination. - Benjamin A Shobert
SUN WUKONG
Disparities in data
Data releases on corruption and home ownership are arousing huge controversy in China for being wildly out of step with reality. An anti-graft survey showing more than 70% of the people happy with state efforts to tackle the scourge is being widely derided as faked, while the destitute in particular are outraged by figures pointing to the average urban family owning more than one home. - Wu Zhong
SINOGRAPH
Zombies in the
communism of the mall
About 400 million unborn Chinese have been sacrificed on the altar of economic development since 1980. They, like all of us, are zombies in the unnatural quest for an eternal life lived in shopping malls that is really an eternal death. However, closeness to death, from Tiananmen to the SARS epidemic and beyond, is breeding an indomitable vitality in China, whereas the West needs new ideas and old religions to give sense to life. - Francesco Sisci
New 'brics' in ASEAN's wall
Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations keen to join the big economies of the developing world should make a priority, individually and collectively, of dealing with the small "bric" - bureaucracy, regulation, interventionism and corruption - if they want to better compete in 2015 and beyond. - Curtis S Chin
Chen hands Beijing a hollow victory
As Chen Guangcheng settles in New York, Beijing can rest assured that its efforts to minimize domestic fallout over the blind activist's escape have worked well and that Chen is effectively silenced. However, this Pyrrhic victory does nothing to address the deep-rooted corruption in local politics that Chen suffered imprisonment and torture to agitate against.
- Kent Ewing
Taiwan's Ma plays it cool
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's re-inauguration speech on Sunday didn't sketch a roadmap for unification with China, as some had expected. Ma instead attacked Beijing's human-rights policy, praised his island's defense industry and denied a cross-strait peace agreement was being planned, with critics seeing Washington's hand at work.
- Jens Kastner
BOOK REVIEW
When heaven and
earth shook in China
The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China
by James Palmer
As a devastating earthquake struck the Chinese city of Tangshan on a sweltering summer's night in July 1976, killing an estimated 650,000, a series of political events that ended in the Gang of Four's expulsion were starting in Beijing. Recounting days of despair and deceit that helped forge modern China, this insightful work suggests political reform did little for disaster management. - Michael Rank
THE ROVING EYE
World history, BRIC by BRIC
From a distance, the 21st century planet looks like a swirling mess crossed by a new and visible wall as the rising BRICS, economic powers with staggering problems, including swamps of corruption and potentially unsustainable levels of poverty, counter old powers that are potentially in decline, but still wage staggering clout. Up close and personal, the blueprint is set for confrontation of the full-spectrum kind. - Pepe Escobar
THE ROVING EYE
An extreme traveler, Pepe's nose for news has taken him to all parts of the Pepe Escobar globe. He was in Afghanistan and interviewed the military leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Masoud, a couple of weeks before his assassination
Caixin Online
- Philippine, Chinese Analysts on South China Sea Row
- After a recent dispute in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines, Caixin spoke to experts from the two countries about the situation and the way forward
- Closer Look: Pursuing a Less Exciting Stimulus
- The government is taking steps to address slower economic growth, but don't expect the freewheeling spending of previous years
- China Digs into America
- With the United States tapping shale gas, Chinese companies setting their sights on its coal mines
- China to Allow Direct Yuan-Yen Trade
- Move eliminates need to calculate value of U.S. dollar relative to both currencies
- One Man's Journey
- Guo Daohui was witness to the founding of the People's Republic, the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution
Why China Remembers, and Heeds, Our Nightmare
The kind of violence that marked the Cultural Revolution was seen before and could erupt
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- The government should abolish the one-child policy and find solutions for a rapidly shrinking labor force
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- Weak external demand means the key to improving China's economy lies in cutting taxes, addressing the imbalance between investment and consumption, and finally dealing with corruption
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