The large number of Chinese and Japanese maritime vessels in dangerous proximity in the East China Sea at a time of high tensions over the islands has raised alarm in Washington about clashes that could lead to larger conflict.
Authors Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, and John Delury, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Yonsei University in South Korea, joined Jonathan Spence, Professor of History at Yale University, in conversation at the Asia Society in New York on July 16, to talk about their new book Wealth and Power: Chi
Industrialization has turned much of the Chinese countryside into an environmental disaster zone, threatening not only the food supply but the legitimacy of the regime itself.
The European Union’s trade chief said on Saturday that a deal had been reached with China to settle a dispute over exports of low-cost solar panels that had threatened to set off a wider trade war between two of the world’s largest economies.
Chinese are buying up infant milk powder everywhere they can get it, outside of China. And that has led to shortages in at least a half-dozen countries, from the Netherlands to New Zealand.
Millions commented on the CCTV post about Detroit on Sina Weibo. As one user put it, “Seven-hundred thousand people, quiet, clean air, no pollution, democracy — what are you waiting for?”
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"The romanticised relationship surrounding China's investment in Africa has passed," said Alex Vines. "The main pressure on governments in Africa is to provide jobs. Having the Chinese take those jobs doesn't help."
Bo Xilai, the disgraced former Communist Party official, was indicted on Thursday on criminal charges of bribery, corruption and abuse of power, paving the way for a prominent trial expected to start within weeks.
