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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

Top Chinese legislator meets Spanish king on ties

Visiting top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo met Thursday with Spanish King Juan Carlos on bilateral friendly relations.

China's top legislator starts first visit to Spain for closer ties

"I believe, under joint efforts, the visit will help consolidate friendship, promote mutual trust, expand consensus and deepen cooperation between the two countries," said Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), in a written speech upon his arrival.

China's top legislator meets with president of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg

Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's NPC, meets with Laurent Mosar, president of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, in Luxembourg, May 22, 2012.

Xi urges CPC organs to better serve the people

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping has urged the Communist Party of China (CPC) organs at all levels to better serve grassroots people.

Special Reports  >>

Huangyan Island Dispute

Top legislator Wu Bangguo visits four European nations

China-Russia Joint Naval Drill 2012

Premier Wen visits Iceland, Sweden, Poland, attends Hannover Messe 2012

Global Times

The US State Department issued its annual human rights report on other countries on Thursday that labeled China an “authoritarian country” and said the human rights situation in Chin

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China is not a currency manipulator

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Legal procedure of China´s complaint to WTO

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China set to sue US for imposing countervailing duties

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China, Japan, ROK hold symposium on aging population

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How serious is the population ageing problem in China?

South Africa starts to capitalize on manganese reserve

China´s stance on Sudan, S. Sudan dispute

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5th trilateral summit to open in Beijing

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Trade Ministers from China, Japan, and South Korea meet in Beijing to discuss FTA

China´s April CPI growth eases to 3.4%

More analysis on China´s April CPI

Studio Interview: Yukon Huang talks on progress of China´s economic reform

Freddie Mac seeking help to stay afloat

Dialogue
Hegemonic wrangling or co-prosperity

Dialogue
China & Africa grow together

Dialogue
Beijing urges Manila to negotiate

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Ideal forms of government

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Renewed presidency of Putin

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Chinese architect Wang Shu wins 2012 Pritzker Prize

The Wall Street Journal

Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, where the big China worry is protectionism, not currency.

Steeling for a Chinese Slowdown

China doesn't need all the steel it is churning out, and talk of more infrastructure spending isn't turning prices around.

U.S. Steers Clear of Yuan Labeling

Obama administration officials said China's currency remains "significantly undervalued" but again didn't label Beijing a currency manipulator in a semiannual report to Congress.

Chinese Manufacturing Falls

The preliminary HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell in May, for the seventh straight month of contraction, stoking concerns the Chinese economy could slow sharply.

Small Businesses in China Get a Boost

China's two stock exchanges moved to allow small firms to sell bonds via private placement, opening another fundraising avenue for the country's cash-strapped small-business sector

China Oil Imports From Iran Rebound

China's imports of Iranian crude oil recovered in April after sharp drops earlier this year, suggesting Beijing remains a steady customer despite U.S. efforts to tighten sanctions on Tehran.

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

Advice for Chen Guangcheng, From a Fellow Passenger

The dissident should take his time before making public comments on America and China, so he is not used as political fodder.

See Kaixin's Feature with all the News

Patriotism With Chinese Characteristics

After living through the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 and seeing the aftereffects, my definition of patriotism changed.

Things Fall Apart Economically, Everywhere

The sky is falling. No, it's just the euro. Oh, wait, it could be China, too, the engine that pulled the world out of the last global recession.

As China Marches Ahead, Is It On Solid Ground?

Reports of a weakening economy, combined with concern over moral decline, pose a question for China: Do Communist states, perhaps, have a natural lifespan?

Chinese Nationalism as Leadership Change Looms

As China prepares for a change in leadership, a rush of hostility toward foreigners is appearing, paradoxically, alongside admiration for the West.

U.S. Declines to Accuse China of Manipulating Currency

The Treasury Department’s decision should help avert a trade dispute, but the department said that the renminbi is still undervalued.

Beijing Accuses U.S. of Trade Violations in Energy Sector

The Chinese ruling that American government support for six renewable energy projects violated free-trade rules was the latest volley in a widening conflict between the two countries over clean energy.

The Specter of the Cultural Revolution

Until the leadership confronts the Cultural Revolution head-on, its ghosts will continue to haunt the nation.

Made in China, but Assembled in Bulgaria

With low production costs, cheap labor and a flat tax rate, Bulgaria offered an ideal opportunity for Great Wall Motor, which now builds three models in the country.

Disquieting Days for Foreigners in China

The Beijing police launch a campaign against lawbreaking foreigners. A well-known TV host calls for "foreign trash" to be thrown out of the country. Being non-Chinese in China today is an uneasy business.

U.S. Sees Other Countries Luring Expatriates to Return

A report released by an immigration group was broadly critical of the American immigration system, which it said is slow, inflexible and not synchronized with the nation’s labor needs.

Treasury Says Nothing Secret About China’s Link to Auctions

Experts described China’s special access to Treasury auctions as a product of the changing trends in the market and its deep economic ties to the United States.

With China’s Growth Easing, Premier Calls for Stimulus

Wen Jiabao called for more growth, though he stopped well short of calling for the vast increase in bank lending and monetary supply that eased the financial crisis three years ago.

Bo Xilai’s Fall in China Put Allies in Peril

The fall of Bo Xilai from the Communist Party’s top echelons has shed light into how some of his closest allies became entwined in his fate

In China, Fear at the Top

For members of China’s Communist elite, sending money overseas makes sense as a political hedge.

Asia Times Online

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

The riddle of Scarborough Shoals

In the matter of the Scarborough Shoal mess, the Philippines started it and the infamous Chinese nine-dash line encompassing almost the entire South China Sea looks like an audacious claim drawn from an appetite for aggression. A closer look reveals that there is some genuine method to Beijing's madness, and a chance that gas and greed, rather than international law and principle, may salvage peace in the South China Sea.
- Peter Lee (May 18, '12)

 
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

Trading Platform for State-Owned Property Rights Launched

Mechanism takes over information-gathering role previously held by local property exchanges

Why China Remembers, and Heeds, Our Nightmare

The kind of violence that marked the Cultural Revolution was seen before and could erupt

70 New Airports Planned, Aviation Official Says

Added runways will serve an increasing number of planes over the next five years

Chongqing Turns Page on Method for Development

After leadership change, Chongqing has taken steps to embrace private enterprise instead of state-led business

Commercial Real Estate Is No Safe Haven

Tightening polices have chased investors into a new sector, but this is only creating another bubble

Revisiting the Dangers of Cultural Amnesia

Remembering the Cultural Revolution for what it really was – a disaster – is paramount as China faces the future

Nailene Chou: Demography and Destiny

The government should abolish the one-child policy and find solutions for a rapidly shrinking labor force

Andy Xie: Only Reforms Can Revive Growth

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

Near Three Gorges Dam, the Exodus Continues

Another 110,000 people are expected to join the 1.1 million who’ve moved from the reservoir's danger zone

Andrew Sheng: The Yuan's Place in History

Past experience suggests that taking a nation's currency international is a long, complicated affair

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Daily News, Culture & Current Affairs about China

See how China sees the world, see how the world sees China

People's Daily

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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

China's top legislator starts first visit to Spain for closer ties

"I believe, under joint efforts, the visit will help consolidate friendship, promote mutual trust, expand consensus and deepen cooperation between the two countries," said Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), in a written speech upon his arrival.

China's top legislator meets with president of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg

Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's NPC, meets with Laurent Mosar, president of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, in Luxembourg, May 22, 2012.

Xi urges CPC organs to better serve the people

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping has urged the Communist Party of China (CPC) organs at all levels to better serve grassroots people.

Special Reports  >>

Huangyan Island Dispute

Top legislator Wu Bangguo visits four European nations

China-Russia Joint Naval Drill 2012

Premier Wen visits Iceland, Sweden, Poland, attends Hannover Messe 2012

Global Times

 CHINA

CCTV 9

News and Current Affairs

WATCH VIDEO
China, Japan, ROK hold symposium on aging population

WATCH VIDEO
How serious is the population ageing problem in China?

South Africa starts to capitalize on manganese reserve

China´s stance on Sudan, S. Sudan dispute

WATCH VIDEO
5th trilateral summit to open in Beijing

WATCH VIDEO
Trade Ministers from China, Japan, and South Korea meet in Beijing to discuss FTA

China´s April CPI growth eases to 3.4%

More analysis on China´s April CPI

Studio Interview: Yukon Huang talks on progress of China´s economic reform

Freddie Mac seeking help to stay afloat

Dialogue
Hegemonic wrangling or co-prosperity

Dialogue
China & Africa grow together

Dialogue
Beijing urges Manila to negotiate

Hot on CCTV News

Dialogue
Ideal forms of government

Dialogue
Renewed presidency of Putin

The Wall Street Journal

Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, where the big China worry is protectionism, not currency.

Chinese Manufacturing Falls

The preliminary HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell in May, for the seventh straight month of contraction, stoking concerns the Chinese economy could slow sharply.

Small Businesses in China Get a Boost

China's two stock exchanges moved to allow small firms to sell bonds via private placement, opening another fundraising avenue for the country's cash-strapped small-business sector

China Oil Imports From Iran Rebound

China's imports of Iranian crude oil recovered in April after sharp drops earlier this year, suggesting Beijing remains a steady customer despite U.S. efforts to tighten sanctions on Tehran.

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

Advice for Chen Guangcheng, From a Fellow Passenger

The dissident should take his time before making public comments on America and China, so he is not used as political fodder.

The Specter of the Cultural Revolution

Until the leadership confronts the Cultural Revolution head-on, its ghosts will continue to haunt the nation.

Made in China, but Assembled in Bulgaria

With low production costs, cheap labor and a flat tax rate, Bulgaria offered an ideal opportunity for Great Wall Motor, which now builds three models in the country.

Disquieting Days for Foreigners in China

The Beijing police launch a campaign against lawbreaking foreigners. A well-known TV host calls for "foreign trash" to be thrown out of the country. Being non-Chinese in China today is an uneasy business.

U.S. Sees Other Countries Luring Expatriates to Return

A report released by an immigration group was broadly critical of the American immigration system, which it said is slow, inflexible and not synchronized with the nation’s labor needs.

Treasury Says Nothing Secret About China’s Link to Auctions

Experts described China’s special access to Treasury auctions as a product of the changing trends in the market and its deep economic ties to the United States.

With China’s Growth Easing, Premier Calls for Stimulus

Wen Jiabao called for more growth, though he stopped well short of calling for the vast increase in bank lending and monetary supply that eased the financial crisis three years ago.

Bo Xilai’s Fall in China Put Allies in Peril

The fall of Bo Xilai from the Communist Party’s top echelons has shed light into how some of his closest allies became entwined in his fate

In China, Fear at the Top

For members of China’s Communist elite, sending money overseas makes sense as a political hedge.

Asia Times Online

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

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

The riddle of Scarborough Shoals

In the matter of the Scarborough Shoal mess, the Philippines started it and the infamous Chinese nine-dash line encompassing almost the entire South China Sea looks like an audacious claim drawn from an appetite for aggression. A closer look reveals that there is some genuine method to Beijing's madness, and a chance that gas and greed, rather than international law and principle, may salvage peace in the South China Sea.
- Peter Lee (May 18, '12)

 
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

Chongqing Turns Page on Method for Development

After leadership change, Chongqing has taken steps to embrace private enterprise instead of state-led business

Commercial Real Estate Is No Safe Haven

Tightening polices have chased investors into a new sector, but this is only creating another bubble

Revisiting the Dangers of Cultural Amnesia

Remembering the Cultural Revolution for what it really was – a disaster – is paramount as China faces the future

Nailene Chou: Demography and Destiny

The government should abolish the one-child policy and find solutions for a rapidly shrinking labor force

Andy Xie: Only Reforms Can Revive Growth

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

Near Three Gorges Dam, the Exodus Continues

Another 110,000 people are expected to join the 1.1 million who’ve moved from the reservoir's danger zone

Andrew Sheng: The Yuan's Place in History

Past experience suggests that taking a nation's currency international is a long, complicated affair

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 From 2008

 

 

 

DAILY ARCHIVE

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