Wikileaks Dumps Over 200,000 Documents Related to Kissinger
on April 16, 2013
A new, full-searchable document dump containing over 206,000 documents related to Henry Kissinger from between 1973 and 1976.
PLA Officer Calls H7N9 Virus A U.S. ‘Bio-Psychological Weapon’
on April 16, 2013
A senior military official has caused an outrage among netizens for calling the current avian flu outbreak in mainland China an American conspiracy and belittling a string of deaths from the virus.
China’s Dalian Wanda In Talks To Buy European Theater Chain
on April 16, 2013
Dalian Wanda has shown interest in purchasing UK-based chains, Odeon & UCI Cinemas Holdings and Vue Entertainment, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
China’s Xi Signals Limited Shift Away From North Korea
on April 16, 2013
The current situation, in which North Korea has threatened the US and its ally South Korea with nuclear strikes, is “a golden opportunity for the US and China to work together and build mutual trust.”
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on April 16, 2013
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Playing Margaret Thatcher In China
on April 16, 2013
Melissa Rayworth on her chance to show a small cross-section of China that Margaret Thatcher was not a cartoon. She was a real, three-dimensional person.
Morococha: The Peruvian Town the Chinese Relocated
on April 16, 2013
The headlines have been stark: a Chinese mining company moves an entire Peruvian town of 5,000 people five miles down the road to make way for its new mine.
It sounds like another story about an extractive corporation riding roughshod over local lives. But the reality is more complex. The decision to move the town was actually made before the Chinese company, Chinalco, took control. And, to the surprise of many, it may provide a template for successful overseas investment.
Why is China Still Messing with the Foreign Press?
A ChinaFile Conversation
on April 16, 2013
To those raised in the Marxist tradition, nothing in the media happens by accident. In China, the flagship newspapers are still the “throat and tongue” of the ruling party, and their work is directed by the Party’s Propaganda Department. That’s the first reason why Chinese cybersnoops dug into the Times’ servers—to find out who had ordered a political attack on China’s premier and for what purpose.
China Export Policy Chokes on Vitamin Verdict
on April 15, 2013
Internet cafés covered by the city of Wuhan’s Internet Café Association agreed to set minimum prices for online access nearly a decade ago. And more than one hundred coking coal company-members of the Coke Association of Shanxi Province each agreed in 2005 to cut production up to 40 percent.
These are two examples of the market power wielded by tens of thousands of quasi-government trade associations in China, which were formed in the late 1980s to control production and prices on behalf of government policymakers.
Tencent Lets WeChat’s Rapid Growth Do the Talking
on April 15, 2013
Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s free messaging service, WeChat, has seen its popularity grow among both individual users and businesses, even amid a dispute with the Big Three telecom operators [China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom].
Since launching in January 2011, WeChat, the mobile text and voice messaging application, now has more than 300 million users. The rapid growth has caught the attention of various businesses seeking to explore opportunities on the platform.