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One of the reasons I’ve been following this recent presidential election so closely is its immeasurable importance for U.S.-China relations. What direction will the U.S. take on the precarious road of relations with China? It is a hugely important issue with political and economic repercussions. Will we see a hawkish, strident U.S. [...]
Zhang Mingqing, vice president of the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (海峡两岸关系协会) - an association set up for handling technical and business matters with Taiwan - was assaulted by a group of emotional pro-independence activists and local officials during a visit to the Confucius Temple in Tainan City in southern Taiwan last [...]
It was announced yesterday that Hu Jia, China’s much maligned and controversial human rights activist, was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Europe’s most prestigious human rights prize.
Hu has been one of China’s most vocal human rights supporters who is currently in jail for acts of subversion stemming from his critical [...]
It was announced two weeks ago that Chinese leaders were on the verge of initiating land reform legislation that would allow peasants to buy or sell land-use rights. This has the potential of ameliorating one of China’s longest standing points of discord between peasants and the State. As of today, however, no official [...]
I was recently turned on to a noteable event courtesy of James Fallows post a while back in which Premier Wen Jiabao agreed to an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. As his post points out, it is a rarity for Chinese upper echelon leaders to agree to interviews with the mainstream Western press - this [...]
Lost in the stentorian din of the $700 Billion economic bailout plan approved by U.S. Congress last Friday was another multi-billion dollar piece of legislature penned into approval - a $6.5 billion dollar arms sale to Taiwan.
The deal, announced hours after the bailout plan was approved, includes 30 AH-64D Boeing Co Apache attack helicopters, 330 [...]
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