Environment
04.16.15
Petrochemical Plant Explosion Vaporizes Government Safety Assurances
from chinadialogue
Opposing the construction of petrochemical plants making Paraxyline (PX), a key ingredient in plastic bottles and polyester clothing, has been one of the most common forms of environmental activism for China’s urban residents in the past decade.On...
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04.16.15New Asian Development Bank Seen As Sign Of China’s Growing Influence
NPR
Obama worries the new bank will compete with the Western-led World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Conversation
04.16.15
How Much Consumerism Can China Afford?
This week, a blockbuster movie celebrating speedy cars and the racing life landed atop China’s box office. The Hollywood import Fast and Furious 7 grossed $63 million in one day (as reported by Bloomberg), the most-ever for a single title in that...
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04.15.15BMW China Dealers Press Auto Maker for More Financial Support
Wall Street Journal
In letter to German luxury car maker, dealers call on BMW to set more realistic sales targets.
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04.15.15China’s Biggest Chip Maker’s Possible Tie-Up With H-P Values Unit at Up to $5 Billion
Wall Street Journal
Tsinghua Unigroup in talks to buy a controlling stake in Hewlett-Packard unit H3C Technologies.
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04.15.15Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
Atlantic
It's unclear how she would manage two of America's most important and complex relationships.
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04.15.15China’s G.D.P. Slows to 7 Percent, the Weakest Rate Since 2009
New York Times
China’s G.D.P. Slows to 7 Percent, the Weakest Rate Since 2009
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04.14.15China’s Booming Stockmarket — The Bubble Question
Economist
Whereas China’s growth has drifted steadily lower, its share indices have doubled in value.
Caixin Media
04.14.15
Bulldozing the Cadre Who Revamped Kunming
Warm, sunny Kunming brimmed with charm before Communist Party leader Qiu He brought an autocratic style of governance to town and spurred the urbanization campaign that preceded his downfall.Today, this historic city in southwestern China is a...
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04.14.15The Netflix of China Is Invading the US With Smartphones
Wired
LeTV launched its Internet video streaming service three years before Netflix (2004 versus 2007).
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04.13.15China Restricts Travel By Shenzhen Residents To Hong Kong
NPR
The move is designed to assuage Hong Kongers angry with mainlanders who buy up goods.
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04.13.15Hank Paulson: Economic Challenges, China — and the Birds
USA Today
Paulson says the United States needs a clear-eyed, coordinated, consistent approach to the formidable challenge from China.
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04.13.15China’s Island-Building Is Ruining Coral Reefs, Philippines Says
New York Times
China’s South China Sea neighbors could lose up to $100 million a year because reefs are fish breeding grounds.
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04.13.15China’s March Exports Shrink 15 Percent Year-on-Year in Shock Fall
Reuters
The tumble could heighten worries about how a rising yuan hurt demand for Chinese goods and services abroad.
Sinica Podcast
04.13.15
Styling It in China
from Sinica Podcast
Sociologist Ben Ross, a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, focuses on Chinese labor migration and related issues. He first got noticed by Sinica in 2007 while writing a blog about working as the only foreign "hair-washing trainee...
Reports
04.09.15
Power Play: China’s Ultra High Voltage Technology and Global Standards
Paulson Institute
As a matter of government policy and corporate strategy, China has been intensifying its effort to set indigenous standards for homegrown ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission technology. The country also aims to contribute to UHV standards...
Caixin Media
04.06.15
Tycoon Said to Bring Down a Deputy Mayor, Control Key Beijing Land Deal
A recent business dispute between a state-owned technology conglomerate and a private property developer has put a low-profile but powerful businessman in the spotlight. The businessman is believed to have brought down a former Beijing deputy mayor...
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04.05.15China Escalates Hollywood Partnerships, Aiming to Compete One Day
New York Times
Chinese studios are moving up the value chain, helping to develop, design and produce world-class films and animated features.
Environment
04.02.15
‘Wolf Totem’ Trainer Sees Risks, Rewards for Hollywood in China
from chinadialogue
Wolf trainer Andrew Simpson has just wrapped up three years in Beijing coaching wolves to perform in the film version of the novel Wolf Totem. The Sino-French adaptation of Jiang Rong’s best-selling 2004 novel opened in Beijing and Europe in...
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04.02.15The Chinese Billionaire Zhang Lei Spins Research Into Investment Gold
New York Times
Starting 10 years ago with $20 million from Yale’s endowment, Zhang was an early backer of Tencent and JD.com.
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04.01.15Taiwan’s Rash Decision to Join AIIB
Diplomat
Taiwan’s legislative branch was never able to approve the application or review the evaluation reports and proposals.
Conversation
04.01.15
New Chinese Cyberattacks: What’s to Be Done?
Starting last week, hackers foiled a handful of software providers that promote freedom of information by helping web surfers in China reach the open Internet. The attacks that drastically slowed the anti-censorship services of San Francisco-based...
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04.01.15Claims of Retaliation in Detention of Chinese Anticorruption Campaigner
New York Times
Ou Shaokun, 61, gained prominence by advising Guangzhou petitioners protesting government land seizures.
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04.01.15Petrobras Deepens China Tie With $3.5 Billion Loan Deal
Bloomberg
The world’s most indebted oil producer bolsters ties to China as corruption scandal shuts it out of international bond markets.
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04.01.15Obama Expands Options for Retaliating Against Foreign Hackers - NYTimes.com
New York Times
Obama used existing authority to impose economic sanctions on North Korea, but the new order will expand his options.
Reports
04.01.15
Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Council on Foreign Relations
China represents and will remain the most significant competitor to the United States for decades to come. As such, the need for a more coherent U.S. response to increasing Chinese power is long overdue. Because the American effort to “integrate”...
Reports
04.01.15
Can Fracking Green China’s Growth?
Overseas Development Institute
This paper analyses the best available technical, scientific, and engineering literature on the risks and opportunities posed by shale gas, and also what policy environment could maximise the opportunity and minimise the risk. It also analyses China...
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03.31.15China Ban Hits Google’s Search Ad Share; Baidu Gains
International Business Times
Google’s share of 2015’s $81.59 billion search ad market at 54.5%, down from 54.7% in 2014 and 55.2% in 2013.
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03.31.15Chinese Authorities Compromise Millions in Cyberattacks
Great Firewall of China
Hijacking the computers of millions of innocent Internet users around the world shows China's disregard for Internet governance norms.
The China Africa Project
03.30.15
A Chinese Perspective on the #RacistRestaurant Scandal in Kenya
The Chinese restaurant in Nairobi that barred Africans after 5pm sparked a frenzied week of news coverage on both local and international media and, of course, on Twitter. The actions of this small, inconsequential restaurant seemingly took on much...
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03.30.15China Appears to Attack GitHub by Diverting Web Traffic
New York Times
In recent attacks on sites that try to help Internet users in China circumvent censorship, the Great Firewall appears to have been used as a weapon.
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03.30.15Q. and A.: Adam Fisk on Evading Internet Censorship in China
New York Times
GreatFire.org’s “mirrored” websites and the Internet bandwidth-sharing service Lantern have allowed users to access the open Internet.
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03.30.15How China Plans to Shape New Asian Order
Wall Street Journal
At the center of these efforts is the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and plans for pan-Asian infrastructure .
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03.30.15Full Text of Chinese President’s Speech at Boao Forum for Asia
Xinhua
Xi's speech, entitled, "Towards a Community of Common Destiny and A New Future for Asia"
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03.30.15China’s Zhou Says PBOC Has Room to Act on Growth Slowdown
Bloomberg
The central bank chief's remarks follow China's weakest expansion since 1990.
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03.28.15Chinese Firms in Europe: Gone Shopping
Economist
Gone shopping More European businesses are coming under Chinese ownership.
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03.27.15Beyond Ai Weiwei: How China’s Artists Handle Politics (or Avoid Them)
New Yorker
Westerners are often criticized for looking at Chinese art through a narrow political lens.
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03.27.15Lee Kuan Yew, the Man Who Remade Asia
Wall Street Journal
He preached ‘Asian values’ and turned a tiny, poor city-state into an astonishing economic success. Is Lee’s ‘Singapore model’ the future of Asia?
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03.27.15Apple is Hitler, says Chinese CEO
Verge
Chinese tech firm LeTV is rumored to be entering the smartphone market.
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03.27.15U.S. About-Face on AIIB Would be Welcomed
China Daily
US leaders have for years said Asia-Pacific nations do not have to choose between China and the US.
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03.26.15Skiing Is the Latest Obsession for China’s Wealthy
Wall Street Journal
Winter sports are catching on as Beijing bids to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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03.26.15Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?
Harvard Business Review
Companies' quest to cut costs per engineer drives new entrants into using R&D from India and China.
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03.26.15South Korea Says It Will Join China-Led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
Wall Street Journal
Seoul makes assurances about AIIB’s governance, which U.S. has been wary about.
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03.26.15US Risks Epic Blunder by Treating China as an Economic Enemy
Telegraph
The United States has handled its economic diplomacy with shocking myopia.
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03.25.15Car-Hire Services Compete for the Ride Stuff
Uber's deal with a car broker is a sign of growing competition among firms relying on car-hire and taxi-hailing apps.
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03.24.15China Eyes Innovation in Face of Economic “New Normal”
Xinhua
The growth target for 2015 was set at "approximately 7 percent," down from 7.5 percent in 2014.
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03.24.15China Reiterates Openness of AIIB After Shift in US Attitude
Xinhua
The China-proposed AIIB, has an expected initial subscribed capital of $50 billion.
Conversation
03.24.15
What Went Wrong With U.S. Strategy on China’s New Bank and What Should Washington Do Now?
Now that much of Europe has announced its intentions to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), was Washington’s initial opposition a mistake? Assuming the AIIB does get off the ground, what might it mean for future...
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03.23.15IBM to Share Technology with China in Strategy Shift: CEO
Reuters
IBM must help China build its IT industry rather than viewing the country solely as a sales destination or manufacturing base.
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03.23.15Chinese Relic Experts Claim 1,000-year-old Mummified Monk Was Stolen
CNN
Fujian officials found photos and historical records suggesting the statue belonged to a village temple.
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03.20.15China on the World Stage: A Bridge Not Far Enough
Economist
China plans a new bank to help match Asia’s vast savings with its even vaster need for infrastructure.
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03.19.15China (Finally) Admits to Hacking
Diplomat
An updated military document for the first time admits that the Chinese government sponsors offensive cyber units.
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03.19.15China’s Biggest Anti-Censorship Service is Under Attack
Variety
GreatFire.org has been under an unprecedented denial-of-service attack, receiving more than 2 billion requests per hour.
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03.19.15Yahoo to Shutter China Office and Cut “Around 350” Jobs
BBC
The move not a huge surprise as Yahoo has been retreating since 2013 when it ended email servies in China.
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03.19.15China Gloats as Europeans Rush to Join Asian Bank
Washington Post
Xinhua described the U.S. as “petulant and cynical” for declining to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
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03.19.15Global Push Aims to Change China’s Mind on Bank Rules: U.S. Official
Reuters
Lobby wants China to stop rules that would force tech vendors to Chinese banks to hand over source code.
Environment
03.19.15
World Coal Investments Increasingly Risky, Especially China’s
from chinadialogue
The investment case for coal-fired power is looking increasingly unconvincing, but more plants will need to be cancelled if the world is to avoid runaway climate change, a report published on Monday said.The report which was co-authored by green...
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03.18.15U.S. Urges Allies to Think Twice Before Joining China-led Bank
Reuters
The move by U.S. allies to participate in Beijing's flagship economic outreach a diplomatic blow to Washington.
Caixin Media
03.17.15
Chinese Businesses Eye Purchasing Power of LGBT Community
Chinese businesses are starting to show interest in the purchasing power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) consumer market, often referred to as the “pink dollar,” a trend led by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group...
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03.17.15The Constant Adaptations of China’s Great Firewall
Wall Street Journal
Firewall-hopping technologies see activist programmers and Chinese censors engaged in a cat-and-mouse game.