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Category Archives: Ideas in Chinese Life
The World Should Thank China
“China supplied the world with very cheap and good-quality rare earths for more than a decade at the cost of depleting its resources and damaging its environment,” Wang Caifeng, who heads the government-affiliated China Association for Rare Earths, said at … Continue reading
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China Hands Out Its Own Peace Prize to Lien Chan
Chinese officialdom continues to thrash wildly in response to the award of the Nobel Prize to a Chinese lawyer/activist, Liu Xiaobo, currently incarcerated. Among the thrashings: threats to foreign governments, increased surveillance and punishments of those with some connection to … Continue reading
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Ordinary, Everyday Fraud in China
Must read: The most recent string of revelations has been bracing. After a plane crash in August killed 42 people in northeast China, officials discovered that 100 pilots who worked for the airline’s parent company had falsified their flying histories. … Continue reading
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The Straddling Bus? A Chinese Innovation in Urban Transport
What do you think will happen when this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 1 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 2 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 3 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario 4 or this: Urban transport catastrophe, Scenario … Continue reading
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“China” in the Minds of Americans
Many Americans, especially those who know little about the subject, feel strongly that the torch for the world’s next generation, has passed to China. John Pomfret takes this idea to task here. For Americans, China — not what is actually … Continue reading
New York Times Removes Negative Quotations from Article on Google and Baidu
I write this to satisfy the curiousity of those who may not see a quotation referenced in an Asiabizblog post. The New York Times has removed or revised two quotations from an article it published on January 13, originally titled, … Continue reading
The Google Threat: Paper Tiger?
“Media is always a losing proposition in China.” I was thrilled to read Anne Stevenson Yang’s forthright and accurate assessment of foreign involvement in Chinese media. Finally, a non-Chinese within China is willing to state the obvious to a public … Continue reading
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WTO Rules Against China — Limits Book and Media Imports
NY Times: A World Trade Organization panel ruled on Wednesday that China had violated its international free trade rules by limiting imports of books and movies, WTO Findings and Conclusions here. (Beware: although written in what appears to be English, … Continue reading
More African Complaints About Chinese Business Practices
Following our 88 Queensway article comes this: At several Chinese-run projects in Windhoek, workers were not wearing safety helmets. The Namibian workers said they must pay for their own safety equipment — for example, $3.65 for a helmet, $1.20 for … Continue reading
