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The kiln slave incident demonstrates that without constitutional oversight from free citizens, an independent media, and democratic organizations apart from the party, this structure cannot prevent corruption in itself or renew politics. Nor can it maintain 'advanced' political ideals...
Chinese media has little international influence, in part because it doesn't tell the whole truth, the head of Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television was quoted on Friday as saying.
China welcomed its second non-communist minister in just two months, a move highlighting that outstanding people without Communist identity are having more say in politics.
Chen Zhu, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was appointed the minister of health by China's top legislature on Friday, after the cabinet nomination of non-Communist Wan Gang as the minister of science and technology in April.
Over the past few years, veteran Vermont activists Ellen David-Friedman and Stuart Friedman have been teaching community organizing to university students in southern China while also quietly working with labor groups not sanctioned by the communist government. Now the East Montpelier partners are leaving their respective Green Mountain jobs...in order to focus more intensively on their work in the People's Republic. Their ambitious aim is to help mitigate the negative effects of the global market economy model espoused by Gov. James Douglas and the Vermont business leaders who recently concluded a joint prospecting trip to China.
In a post titled 'You are a citizen, but also a journalist,' the popular online public forum tianya.cn asks visitors to contribute photos of extravagant government buildings around them. The post says the China Central Television is calling for these photos to prepare for a program revealing how local governments waste tax dollars for lavish structures.
The historical significance of the upheaval of 1989 in Beijing does not lie in one paradigm or another, espoused by this or that spokesman or leader. It lies in the space the movement opened up for creative imagination and the opportunities it offered for experiment. The focus was always on the right of citizens to participate in the public life of the country, and the channels that would enable them to do so.
As many of you know, my business here in Xinjiang involves frequently cooperating with various arms of the bingtuan (兵团), aka Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps (XPCC), aka the "army farm" system. (I think "XPCC" works best - its vagueness as a term mirrors the imperfect clarity with which the system can be described - but I still find myself using "bingtuan".)
China launched a $1 billion fund Tuesday to finance trade and investment by Chinese companies in Africa ... The new fund is to be financed by the government's China Development Bank, which said the fund eventually will expand to $5 billion.
Rather, the process is about helping companies find a way to do business in all major markets, including China, while doing all they can to protect their users' interests against government encroachment globally. It's as much about protecting Internet users from an over-reaching Bush administration as it is about protecting them from the Chinese public security bureau.
...the attitude of anti-virus software firms is really intriguing: they only recognize that they misreported the program as a virus, but did not acknowledge misreporting it as a security problem. In other words, this suggests that there might be someone (either in the United States government or Microsoft) deliberately designing unsafe programs for users that are not viruses, but still fall into the category of a security issue....are the two reported 'back door' programs targeted at the mainland of China or even the Chinese government?
China National Petroleum Corporation, the country’s largest oil company and the parent of listed group Petrochina, signed a deal with Iraq in 1997 to develop the al-Ahdab oil field. The field is one of the first to be offered to foreign investors since the 2003 US-led invasion....
...'The contract with the previous administration is still valid – it was signed and we will honour it' [said the Iraqi Oil Minister]