China’s Xi signals limited shift away from North Korea
Chinese President Xi Jinping took an unusually harsh tone this weekend on the North Korea crisis, saying that no country should be allowed to upset world peace.
Chinese President Xi Jinping took an unusually harsh tone this weekend on the North Korea crisis, saying that no country should be allowed to upset world peace.
The horrifyingly bad air in Beijing is driving something of an expat exodus — as well as one by young Chinese executive types. The past three months have seen the worst air quality on record.
Google is the first high-profile tech company executive to visit Myanmar in the wake of reforms that prompted Western nations to ease sanctions following decades of military dictatorship.
On Wednesday, 46 men were jailed for selling meat from sick pigs near where farmers were believed to dump some 6,000 diseased pigs into a river that supplies drinking water to Shanghai.
The Chinese Communist Party inspires little support among young Chinese professionals: the best they can say is that it’s a necessary nuisance.
Just hours before the Newtown, Conn., massacre, a man stabbed 23 children in a rural Chinese elementary school.
Officials at some top level Chinese government meetings have been banned from simply reading their notes and have been encouraged to engage in real discussion.
Today, yet another Tibetan died after he set himself on fire in protest. And neither the Chinese authorities nor exiled Tibetan leaders seem able, or willing, to halt the recent spike in such incidents.
Wu Jialiang, CEO of Ralls Corp. is challenging Obama’s refusal on national security grounds to let him build a wind farm in America, marking the first such high level case in the US from a Chinese firm.
China is issuing passports with a map of the disputed South China Sea labeled as part of China.
The Communist Party Congress most certainly will laud President Hu’s review of China’s accomplishments over his past five years in office.
Profound disarray ahead of the key Chinese Party Congress is leading to speculation that a selection process once dominated by a single strong leader will have to become more competitive.
China’s once-a-decade power transition in November may promote these five party members.
In the end, Obama and Romney sound more realistic about how far they can influence Beijing, say analysts.
The China and Japan face off over five islands has sunk relations to a 40-year low – the worst since diplomatic relations began. But the sabre rattling is just for show, say analysts.
Panasonic and Canon announced shutdowns in China on Monday and firms urged expatriates to stay indoors after protests over Japan’s purchase of disputed Islands got out of hand Saturday.
The strange disappearance from public view of China’s heir apparent Vice President Xi Jinping has puzzled observers.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Wednesday with Chinese officials to discuss differences over the conflict in Syria and how best to defuse tensions in the South China Sea.
Vast mineral deposits are bringing wealth to this country of 3 million. Now Mongolia is in a race to stem the threat of corruption.
Mongolians vote for a new parliament today that will have to decide how the landlocked, still poor country should spend the expected windfall from its mining boom.
By Peter Ford
April 8, 2013