This article seeks to offer insight into a number of broader ongoing debates — about environmental regulation in developing countries, accountability and regime survival in authoritarian states, and legal development in China.
For recent college graduates strugglgin to find a job, positions inside the government, the state enterprises and state banks, which offer steady incomes and generous benefits, have increased dramatically in their appeal.
Professor Zhang Xuezhong of East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai published an article entitled “The Origin and Perils of the Anti-constitutionalism Campaign in 2013″. On August 17, Zhang was notified that his teaching status had been revoked.
Western media organizations are trying to demonize China and promote revolution and national disintegration as they hate seeing the country prosper, the head of China’s official Xinhua news agency said in comments published on Wednesday.
China’s poultry processors have no intention of meeting U.S. food-safety standards. That may explain why the U.S. Department of Agriculture waited until just before the long weekend to announce that it had ended a ban on Chinese chicken imports.
Distillers of China’s most popular spirits, baijiu, are sobering up to a business slowdown and tight financing after a decade of outstanding growth.
Sales are off and company market values have fallen over the past year, prompting some investors to cash in their bets on minor and big-name distillers alike.
Industry leaders such as Tuopai Shede Wine Co., Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd., and Luzhou Laojiao Co. attracted plenty of investors by racking up huge profits for four years straight starting in 2008.
The sale of U.S. arms to Taiwan has been an enduring source of friction between the United States and China. To China, Taiwan is a “core” interest. Though the United States publicly committed itself, through the August 17, 1982 Joint Communique with China, to a gradual reduction of its sales of arms to Taiwan with the goal of advancing an unspecified “final resolution” of the matter, China claims that, in reality, the United States has continued to sell arms to Taiwan in a manner that has violated the letter and spirit of the 1982 Communique. China has consistently viewed these sales as a profound challenge to what it regards as its juridical sovereignty over Taiwan. This report is part of an ongoing effort by the EastWest Institute to explore ways in which the United States and China can manage their differences over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan in a way that is less disruptive to the bilateral relationship—especially the military-to-military relationship—and that conforms to U.S. law and policy, respects China’s legitimate concerns, and maintains or enhances Taiwan’s net security position.
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Chinese truly believe that there is no military solution to the Syrian crisis. On the contrary, a U.S. air strike would only worsen the situation there. Chinese have seen many failures of U.S. intervention in the Middle East in the past decade.
The U.S. clearly is adopting a double standard in dealing with countries in the Middle East, protecting the friendly dictators while trying to undermine the unfriendly ones.
Tolerance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals appears to be rising in Mainland China, at least among the digital generations. A February 2013 poll of users on Sina Weibo, one of China’s leading social networking sites, showed a majority favoring an amendment to China’s Marriage Law to allow for same-sex marriage.
When debating China’s one-child policy, China’s domestic media and observers overseas mostly focus on its impact on the population structure or incidences of inhumanity involved in the implementation of the policy (such as forced abortion). Almost unmentioned is the fact that the government is profiting fiscally from the policy by collecting so-called “social support fees” (社会抚养费).
