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China Premier To Meet Obama In New York
China Premier To Meet Obama In New Y
After attending the annual UN General Assembly meeting and a special summit on the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, Wen Jiabao and President Obama will talk about issues concerning the use of the yuan and dollar in tade between nations. -
Report: China's Coal Dependence Generates Waste
Report: China's Coal Dependence Generates Waste
China depends on coal-fired power for 70 percent of its energy. China’s methods for disposing of the ash are inadequate, with disposal sites often located near residential areas, allowing for contamination of surface water and deeper well water. -
China Vows Harsh Penalties For Food Safety Crimes
China Vows Harsh Penalties For Food Safety Crimes
China warned Thursday that the worst offenders of food safety rules would get the death penalty in a new crackdown on an industry that has spawned embarrasing and deadly scandals in products ranging from seafood to baby formula.Chinese authorities already have used capital punishment in some of the most egregious food safety violation. -
Japan: China Hasn't Informed Of Break In Contacts
Japan: China Hasn't Informed Of Break In Contacts
Japan said Monday it was not officially informed of China's decision to break off high-level government contacts over the extended detention of a fishing boat captain arrested after a ship collision near disputed islands. -
US-Born Panda Gives Birth To Her 8th Cub In China
US-Born Panda Gives Birth To Her 8th Cub In China
An American-born panda gave birth to her eighth cub in southwest China, a rare accomplishment for the endangered species known for being poor breeders.Hua Mei gave birth to a male cub at 3 a.m. on Friday at the Wolong China Giant Panda Research Center in Sichuan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday. The cub weighed 5.7 ounces at birth. -
Google Defends Shrinking China Market Share
Google Defends Shrinking China Market Share
Google's announced that it no longer wanted to cooperate with Chinese censorship and is considering leaving the Chinese market. The government, startled and embarrassed by Google's public defiance, refuses to budge, prompting the search engine to close. Communist leaders promote Web use for education and business but block material deemed subversive or obscene. -
Typhoon Flooding Kills 13 In China, Dozens Missing
Typhoon Flooding Kills 13 In China, Dozens Missing
Flooding and landslides from Typhoon Fanapi killed 13 people in southern China and left at least 33 missing, as the strongest storm to hit the country this year continues to drop heavy rain on parts of the region.The typhoon hit Guangdong province after making a direct hit on the island of Taiwan on Sunday and killing two there. -
Intercepting in China
Intercepting in China In China a security system of interceptors and black jails has flourished in recent years. In order to receive benefits for maintaining social order, the company preys on Chinese citizens frustrated by official malfeasance or illegal land seizures in their hometowns and whocome to the capital in the belief that their problems might be solved if they could gain the ear of senior leaders. -
Chinese Civilian Boats Roil Disputed Waters
Chinese Civilian Boats Roil Disputed Waters
The number of Chinese civilian boats operating in disputed territory and that of the run-ins they have with foreign vessels, including warships, are on the rise. With the diplomatic discord set off by Japan’s recent detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, an increasingly volatile situation in waters around China has emerged. -
Nobel Peace Prize Given to Jailed Chinese Dissident
Nobel Peace Prize Given to Jailed Chinese Dissident
Liu Xiaobo, an impassioned literary critic, political essayist and democracy advocate repeatedly jailed by the Chinese government for his activism, has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.” His award, however, has sparked diplomatic problems between Norway and China. -
No Clear Path for China After Nobel Choice
No Clear Path for China After Nobel Choice
With the Nobel Peace Prize controversy over Liu Xiabo in China, the government is now torn between keeping him in jail which would serve as a powerful magnet for criticism of China’s human rights record, or releasing him, which would put back in circulation a man whose calls for freedom the government fears so much it has jailed him three times. -
Why We Gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel
Why We Gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel
Norway's response to China's rebuke of the Nobel Prize fiasco is that China is a LoN member that agreed to a need for universal human rights to provide a check on arbitrary majorities around the world, whether they are democracies or not. A majority in a parliament cannot decide to harm the rights of a minority, nor vote for laws that undermine human rights. -
China Urges Europeans to Snub Nobel Ceremony
China Urges Europeans to Snub Nobel Ceremony
China is pressing European governments to boycott the ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, warning that the award interferes in China’s internal affairs and that Mr. Liu is a criminal. However, European governments claim neutrality stating that the intents of the committy are legitimate in keeping with the policies of the UN. -
China Sentences Activist in Milk Scandal to Prison
China Sentences Activist in Milk Scandal to Prison
A former journalist who became the public face of a campaign seeking justice for children harmed by tainted dairy products was sentenced Wednesday to two and a half years in prison on charges that his efforts “incited social disorder” for speaking to foreign reporters, publicly displaying magazine-size protest signs and organizing aggrieved parents through Web -
Gap, Its U.S. Sales Tepid, Joins the Rush to China
Gap, Its U.S. Sales Tepid, Joins the Rush to China
Gap Inc. is now planning to open a flagship store in China followed this month by three other large outlets in Shanghai and Beijing, two of China’s wealthiest cities. The company also expects to eventually add its other brands, like Old Navy and Banana Republic. Gap just adds mad rush by US companies to establish companies in CHina. -
Obama Ends G-20 Summit With Criticism of China
Obama Ends G-20 Summit With Criticism of China
Mr. Obama’s efforts to persuade China to act on its own, or as part of a collective commitment by big economies to address trade imbalances, have yielded only incremental steps as he has accussed Beijing of intervening aggressively to keep its currency, the renminbi, below its market value to promote exports. -
China Surges Past India as Top Home of Foreign Students
China Surges Past India as Top Home of Foreign Students
The number of Chinese students studying in the United States surged 30 percent in the 2009-10 academic year, making China the top country of origin for international students. The report found that a record high of 690,923 international students came to the United States last year — nearly 128,000 of them, or more than 18 percent, from China. -
Workers Detained as Toll Hits 53 in Shanghai Fire
Workers Detained as Toll Hits 53 in Shanghai Fire
Chinese authorities detained four people after determining that unlicensed welders may have been responsible for a fire that engulfed a high-rise apartment building undergoing renovations, killing at least 53 people and injuring at least 90 others in one of the deadliest fires here in years. -
Chinese Woman Imprisoned for Twitter Message
Chinese Woman Imprisoned for Twitter Message
A Chinese woman was sentenced to one year in a labor camp on Wednesday after she forwarded a satirical microblog message that urged recipients to attack the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo. The woman, Cheng Jianping, 46, was accused of “disturbing social order” for resending a Twitter message from her fiancé that mocked young nationalists. -
Groundbreaking Picture of China
Groundbreaking Picture of China
A portrait put together by the Met curator James Watt, whose real name is Qu Zhiren, outlines the portrait of a highly diverse land where non-Chinese groups often played a key role, introducing new concepts, including faiths born far afield, such as Buddhism. Mr. Watt dwells on the presence of various Turkic groups in Mongol-occupation and their influence on CHina. -
Caught in an ‘Authoritarian Moment’
Caught in an ‘Authoritarian Moment’
When Xia Shang, a writer, wanted to commemorate the deaths of 58 people in an apartment building fire in Shanghai last week he met more problems than he had bargained for. In making repeated posts for the commemoration Shang was confronted by Internet Police and interrogated, an illustration of how freedom and repression are spreading simultaneously in China. -
Vast Hacking by a China Fearful of the Web
Vast Hacking by a China Fearful of the Web
When WikiLeaks made public an article portraying China’s leadership as nearly obsessed with the threat posed by the Internet to their grip on power — th event showed how through hacking China has sought greater access to political info, especially in the US. -
The Final Conflict
The Final Conflict
In an attempt to trace the course of history, starting with the gene pool in Africa, Ian Morris shows us how different empires were boosted by periods of “axial thought” to surge up the development ladder, only to crumble upon hitting a “hard ceiling,” usually inflicted by what he calls the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse: climate change, migration, famine, epidemic and state failure. -
China’s Army of Graduates Struggles for Jobs
China’s Army of Graduates Struggles for Jobs
Despite the attempts by Jiang Zemin to bolster higher education, the economy, despite its robust growth, does not generate enough good professional jobs to absorb the influx of highly educated young adults. So many students whose parents emptied their bank accounts to buy them the good life that a higher education is presumed to give them are in trouble. -
Saving Face in China
Saving Face in China
When it comes to doing business in China, respect for people’s feelings is paramount. If you understand that dealing with people in China is all about face then you’re all covered.To do this, yu need to take whatever people are saying, whether it’ a creative idea o a strategy idea, and yu need to make them feel valued for saying it -
Abuses Cited in Enforcing China Policy of One Child
Abuses Cited in Enforcing China Policy of One Child
Thirty years after it introduced some of the world’s most sweeping population-control measures, the Chinese government continues to use a variety of coercive family planning tactics, from financial penalties for households that violate the restrictions to the forced sterilization of women who have already had one child. -
A Faith Split Between Two Authorities
A Faith Split Between Two Authorities
Four centuries after the death of Rome’s first successful missionary to China, the Chinese state remains suspicious of the Vatican’s claim to “universal” values and determined to control Catholicism’s impact at home. Many priests and ordinary Catholics are tornobliged, and often willing, to follow Beijing, but also wanting to follow Rome. Such events have caused a split -
When Giving a Business Gift, Don’t Go Too Flashy
When Giving a Business Gift, Don’t Go Too Flashy
Although the act of giving a gift to business associates in China is expected, certain gift-giving rules must be observed. Such rules include: hoosing gifts that take traditional Chinese beliefs into account, giving eight of anything (it is considered good luck), & wrapping in red (also lucky). -
Solar Start-Up Plans Big Factory in South Carolina
Solar Start-Up Plans Big Factory in South Carolina
As American solar companies face intense competition with low-cost Chinese manufacturers, AQTSolar has moved to construst a non-loan guarantee factory that makes a type of thin-film photovoltaic cell called copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS. -
China, in a Shift, Takes On Its Alzheimer’s Problem
China, in a Shift, Takes On Its Alzheimer’s Problem
In a new move to educate the public and medical community about demntia, China as moved to cope with its rapidly aging populations, which is forecastsed to have nearly 400 million people over the age of 60 in the next 3 decades and, partly because of the one-child policy. -
China’s Winning Schools?
China’s Winning Schools?
Education thrives in China and the rest of Asia because it is a top priority. China has made remarkable improvements in the once-awful schools in peasant areas. With most most girls and boys alike likely to attend high school the only drawbacks of Chinese education are its reputation for being ineffective against cheating and for snuffing creativity. -
Obama Pushes Hu on Rights but Stresses Ties to China
Obama Pushes Hu on Rights but Stresses Ties to China
In a recent visit, Pres. Obama pressed china on human rights while China pushed for less US interference in internal affairs. However, both did agree to deals that would generate $45 billion in American exports. & prompt China take additional steps that would curtail the theft of intellectual property &expand the opportunities for American investment in China. -
China: Rights Group Says Couple Beaten for Making Video
China: Rights Group Says Couple Beaten for Making Video
A human rights advocacy group based in the United States, China Aid Association, said Thursday that a human rights lawyer and his wife were severely beaten by security forces for having recorded a video revealing the details of the lawyer’s detention. The video of the man, Chen Guangcheng, was released from prison last September. -
Recruiting in China Pays Off for U.S. Colleges
Recruiting in China Pays Off for U.S. Colleges
In a recent article featuring Grinnel College, admission office officials indicate that admissions from China have significantly increased. However, due to the fact that many Chinese hire agents that help them build resumes that are like bios, admissions members encourage students to send material like unique essays to increase their likelihood of being accpeted. -
China’s Intimidation of Dissidents Said to Persist After Prison
China’s Intimidation of Dissidents Said to Persist After Prison
Widely viewed as retribution for his advocacy efforts against a local family planning campaign of forced abortions and sterilizations, Chen Guangcheng, despite Chinese denials, has been subject to harassment, mail and internet blockage, and surveillance after being released from prison. -
Where Are the Chinese Cars?
Where Are the Chinese Cars?
Chinese goods, from textiles to tools to toys, have been flooding into America for years. But despite their repeated promises, Chinese automakers haven’t begun to make a dent in the car market in the United States. The false starts are a result of Chinese automakers’ letting their ambitions get ahead of the hard work of cracking the ultracompetitive American market, analysts say. -
China: Foreign Students Hit a Record
China: Foreign Students Hit a Record
China’s Ministry of Education is reporting that the number of foreign students in the country reached a record high of more than 260,000 in 2010. Statistics from the ministry carried by the official China Daily on Friday showed that 265,090 students from 194 countries were studying in China. That represented a jump of 8 percent from the 240,000 students in 2009. -
China Unveils Economic Plan With Focus on Raising Incomes and Reining in Pollution
China Unveils Economic Plan With Focus on Raising Incomes and Reining in Pollution
China’s leaders unwrapped a new five-year economic blueprint that set ambitious goals to raise ordinary people’s incomes, rein in pollution and energy use, and build advanced-science industries in fields like biotechnology and environmental protection. The moves are crucial to shifting China’s economic base away from factory exports -
China’s Gradual Revolution
China's Gradual Revolution
Despite the Libyan inspired Jasmin Revolution's limited success, a trend towards revolution in China has seen some positive developments. For example, protests have become more common lately over everything from wages and polluted land to dam-building and animal rights. They have involved workers, villagers, migrants, and environmentalists alike. -
Google Accuses Chinese of Blocking Gmail Service
Google Accuses Chinese of Blocking Gmail Service
Google has accused the Chinese government of disrupting Gmail in the country, making it difficult in the last few weeks for users here to gain access to the company’s popular e-mail.This is probably an intensified effort to censor Web content and disrupt Web searches related to calls for protests similar to those in the Middle E -
China Tightens Censorship of Electronic Communication
China Tightens Censorship of Electronic Communication
A host of evidence over the past several weeks shows that Chinese authorities are more determined than ever to police cellphone calls, electronic messages, e-mail and access to the Internet in order to smother any hint of antigovernment sentiment. This has prompted an outcry from users as young as ninth graders witin schools -
China Urges Quick End to Airstrikes in Libya
<a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/world/asia/23beiijing.html?ref=china&gwh=82AFA15C1E74DB1CF702C53F32EC94BB' >China Urges Quick End to Airstrikes in Libya</a
In response to the American attack on Libya, China’s response has been the most forceful, warning that the assault could bring about a “humanitarian disaster.” The Chinese news mediahave been vociferous in expressing opposition to the military campaign against the Libyan government, with attacking articles on US's oil interests. -
China - Police Break Up Rural Protest
China - Police Nreak Up Rural Protest
A protest by more than 2,000 residents of Suijiang County in Yunnan Province that lasted for five days was dispersed on Tuesday by paramilitary police officers and armored vehicles, according to Chinese news reports and a posting on the Web site of the county’s government. The protest was one of the largest in a long time. -
China Takes Dissident Artist Into Custody
China Takes Dissident Artist Into Custody
Chinese authorities on Sunday detained Ai Weiwei, a high-profile artist and stubborn government critic. Rights advocates say the detentions are an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s six-week crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents is spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society. -
Disney Plans Lavish Park in Shanghai
Disney Plans Lavish Park in Shanghai
After two decades of off-again, on-again talks Disney has finally procured a prak in Shanghai. This park will resemble the Hong Kong counterpart installed as a spin-off of orlando's DisneyWorld. Because China doe snot have a Disney Channel, sources are nervous that the park will not have enough prior publicity to be successful. -
The Importance of China's Move to Electric Cars
China’s soaring consumption of imported oil could stifle the country’s economy, while emissions from petroleum-powered vehicles could choke its cities with air pollution. The Chinese government’s commitment to spend $15 billion on building and selling electric cars in the next five years is a result of their enormous hydrocarbon and CO emissions resulting 70% from
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Where China Outpaces America
Where China Outpaces AmericaIn China, individuals have an average lifespan of 82 years, while in America they only have roughly 79 years. Infant mortality is 2.9 deaths per 1,000 births in China. That is well below the rate of 5.3 in New York City. Also, China has become the most distinguished country academically. Economically, they are becoming an economic juggernaut overcoming poverty and investing brilliantly in alternative energy. -
China: TV Spy Dramas Banned
China: TV Spy Dramas BannedThe government agency in charge of regulating entertainment programming has placed a ban on televsion bans for Amy through June. The motivations for the move are unsure, but observers speculate that it may be an effort to clear the way for official programming in the run-up to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1 -
U.S. Fast-Food Giant Yum Bids for Chinese Chain
href='http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/business/global/14yum.html?ref=china' >U.S. Fast-Food Giant Yum Bids for Chinese Chain</a>Yum Brands has moved to increase the presence of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut in China. Disposable incomes have risen rapidly in China and in many other developing Asian nations over the past two decades, prompting an influx of companies wishing to sell products as diverse as luxury handbags and cars, chicken drumsticks and laundry detergent. -
China Admits Problems With Three Gorges Dam
China Admits Problems With Three Gorges DamThe Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric project and a symbol of China’s confidence in risky technological solutions, is troubled by urgent pollution and geologic problems. The dam has been plagued by reports of floating archipelagoes of garbage, carpets of algae and landslides on the banks along the vast expanse of still water since the 600-foot-tall dam on the Yangtze River was completed in 2006. Also, thegovernment has failed to provide homes for owners displaced by the waters. -
China Is Key to America's Afghan Endgame
China Is Key to America's Afghan EndgameThe affairs of Afghanistan and Pakistan are becoming the biggest test of whether the United States and China can cooperate to maintain global peace and stability in the 21st century. In terms of political relations, the relationship between Pakistani and Chinese/American governments will be very interesting provided Chinese interest in using Pakistan as a safeguard against American and Indian naval threats.
