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Chinese Willing to Spend Big on Afghan Commerce
Seeded on Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:53 AM EST (The New York Times)
Two years ago, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bid $3.4 billion — $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States and Kazakhstan — for the rights to mine deposits near the village of Ayn …
Audit Found $35 Billion in Fraud Among Chinese Officials
Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:28 AM EST (The New York Times)
Chinese officials misused or embezzled about $35 billion in government money in the first 11 months of the year, according to a national audit released this week.
Leading Chinese Dissident Gets 11-Year Prison Term
Seeded on Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:09 PM EST (The New York Times)
A Chinese court sentenced a prominent dissident to 11 years in prison on Friday on subversion charges after he called for sweeping political reforms and an end to the Communist Party's dominance.
China and U.S. Hit Strident Impasse at Climate Talks
Seeded on Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:30 AM EST (The New York Times)
China, which last month for the first time publicly announced a target for reducing the rate of growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, is refusing to accept any kind of international monitoring of its emissions levels, according to negotiators and observers here.
Top Ten China Myths of 2009
Seeded on Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:05 PM EST (New Yorker)
China in 2009 was the land we all hoped it would be: the enemy, the friend, the brilliant tactician, the bumbling oaf. China is such a mix of strength and weakness these days that it provides endless material for opportunistic arguments.
China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate
Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:13 PM EST (The Times)
Tibet's living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China's atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing's authority over Tibet's restive and deeply Buddhist people.
China's record debt has economists worried
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:21 PM EST (CNN)
The U.S. fueled its housing and consumption bubbles by providing easy credit. China seems headed in the same direction, although the victims would be different this time.
For Obama, defining China is a challenge
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:21 AM EST (msnbc.com)
When President Obama arrives in Shanghai and Beijing next week, he will face a prickly question that has vexed presidents since Richard M. Nixon first visited Mao Zedong in 1972: How exactly does the United States define its relationship with China?
Chinese Authors Object to Google's Book-Scanning
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 9:20 PM EST (The New York Times)
A long-running dispute over Google's efforts to digitize books has spread this month to China, where authors have banded together to demand that their works be protected from what they call unauthorized copying.
The Chinese Disconnect - Paul Krugman New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:25 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Senior monetary officials usually talk in code. So when Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, spoke recently about Asia, international imbalances and the financial crisis, he didn't specifically criticize China's outrageous currency policy.
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