China installs Li Keqiang, the pragmatic open-thinker, as its premier
Parliamentary ballot formally confirms appointment of former 'sent-down youth' as Wen Jiabao's successor China has formally installed Li Keqiang as the country's premier, putting him in charge of the...
View ArticleSky News reporter arrested while filming live on air in China
Mark Stone and cameraman, Andy Portch, were held for not displaying passes as they filmed in Tiananmen Square Sky News correspondent Mark Stone has been detained by Chinese police while filming in...
View ArticleReform Posterboy Set To Become China's VP
By David Stanway and Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING, March 15 (Reuters) - Wang Yang, one of China's best-known reformers who was passed over for promotion last year, is set to become one of four vice...
View ArticleChina Mobile Commits to 4G and iPhone Launch
Tweet China Mobile will perform a $4.4bn 4G upgrade to its network so its 715m customers will finally have the opportunity to own a fully working iPhone. The world's largest mobile operator has been...
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Is China's 'Real' Economy Crashing?
As Marc Faber noted, we hardly expect China to report GDP growth rates that do not perfectly fit the goal-seeked solution for utopian society, but under the covers, there appears to be some...
View ArticleLi Keqiang: friends remember China's new premier as 'open, but prudent'
Some hope Li's youth, when he studied western legal traditions and befriended radical thinkers, has made him open to reform When Li Keqiang walks into the annual premier's press conference on Sunday,...
View ArticleLi Er: the future of the novel in China
China's mass media-connected society is more complicated than novelists in the west could ever have imagined, requiring new forms of storytelling to define our subjective experience The novel, as we...
View ArticleWood Resources International LLC: Exportation of logs and lumber from North...
HELSINKI & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The demand for wood products in China fell in 2012, and as a consequence, exportation of logs and lumber from North America was down 17 percent from the...
View ArticleChina 2, U.S. Zero
This week saw a concerted effort by top government officials to call out China as a major threat actor in cyberspace. On Monday, March 11, Obama’s national security adviser Tom Donilon said in remarks...
View ArticleDavid Gosset: Xi Jinping's Long March to Defeat the West's Fear of China
The insight of the Greek historian Thucydides on the Peloponnesian conflict is often quoted in reference to the relations between China and the West: "Athens' rise and the alarm it inspired in...
View ArticleAaron Rhodes: Change China's Brutal Repatriation Policy
Hamburg, Germany -- China's policy of forcibly repatriating North Korean defectors has resulted in brutal punishments including summary execution on a mass scale. As the National Peoples Congress shows...
View ArticleChina’s Li Keqiang, a premier schooled in free thought
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's new premier, Li Keqiang, stands out for his casual and disarming command of English in contrast with some other top leaders who can stand around looking awkward in the...
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CHART OF THE DAY: China's Solyndra Implodes (STP)
China has for some time been subsidizing its solar industry and betting big on clean energy. But the huge bet seems to be crumbling now, and at the center of it is Suntech Power Holdings, one of the...
View ArticleBusiness › JCB, China CITIC Bank launch card
JCB International Co, the international operations subsidiary of JCB, the only global payment brand based in Japan, and China CITIC Bank, subsidiary of China's government-run conglomerate CITIC (China...
View ArticleXi assures China's support for Pakistan
*Noting that China attaches great importance to its ties with Pakistan, Chinese President Xi Jinping today expressed hope that the two countries could cooperate closely so that their traditional...
View ArticleSky News Reporter Broadcasts Live from a Police Van in China (Video)
A Sky Newsreporter who was broadcasting live from Tienanmen Square in Beijing, China, was detained and continued to report live from the back of a... Reported by ContactMusic 10 hours ago.
View ArticleXi Jinping assures China’s support for Pakistan
Noting that China attaches great importance to its ties with Pakistan, Chinese President Xi Jinping today expressed hope that the two countries could cooperate closely so that their traditional...
View ArticleChina installs Cabinet of party vets, technocrats
China's new leaders turned Saturday to veteran technocrats, many with strong international experience, to staff a Cabinet... Reported by Deseret News 10 hours ago.
View ArticleSewage Treatment Facilities in China Industry Research Report – Now Available...
Over the past five years, the Sewage Treatment Facilities industry in China has been growing 17.5% annually to $3.4 billion in 2013. Demand for sewage treatment services has grown substantially due to...
View ArticleChina's Xi hints at backing Lanka against UNHRC resolution
*Newly-elected Chinese President Xi Jinping today offered his support in protecting Sri Lanka's national sovereignty, hinting at Beijing's backing to stave off a US-backed resolution against the...
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