Is Business
Ganji tops China listings
Five years after Mark Yang set out to emulate the success of US-based Craigslist, he has fought off hundreds of competitors to make Ganji the top Internet classified ads site in China. With customers such as Wal-Mart and the backing of Nokia, the company now aims to double revenue in the next year.
(Sep 01, '10) Now showing in China - independent films
While state-backed epics dominate China's movie theaters, independent directors are finding they can survive even without regular distribution channels. And amid ever-present censorship, some discover that there is freedom enough to do what they want and have money left to pay the rent.
(Aug 31, '10) Speaking Freely
Fraud muck hits Chinese central bank
Punishment may be in store for leadership at the Chinese central bank after rumors that it suffered a loss of $430 billion through dubious trading operations in the bond market. The Governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, may not have defected to the US as grapevine has it, but he could be facing the axe soon.
(Aug 31, '10) Bus on stilts to beat Beijing gridlock
As drivers in Beijing struggle to survive days of being trapped in never-ending traffic jams, entrepreneur Song Youzhou is attracting worldwide interest in his futuristic answer to city gridlocks - a bus on stilts, with an elevated passenger section, allowing it to pass over vehicles stuck in the road below.
Greater China
Hiroshima's poisonous past
While each year Japan solemnly marks the thousands killed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, there is no shrine on Okunoshima Island, which lies a short distance from Hiroshima. Here the Imperial Army produced chemical weapons that reaped a deadly harvest.- Peter J Brown (Sep 02, '10)
China makes its North Korea move
A long handshake between President Hu Jintao and Kim Jong-il in Jilin province explicitly placed China's Korean Peninsula eggs in the North's basket. The idea that Beijing will acquiesce to the collapse of the Pyongyang regime and reunification under the aegis of South Korea is a discounted commodity. China called South Korea's bluff - and the United States is ill-equipped to respond.- Peter Lee (Sep 02, '10)
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Stillness conquers heat
Laozi's Biography, a quasi novel by Yu Shicun about the central figure in Taoism, could be the beginning of a watershed, elevate the sage's cryptic verses on Chinese culture's inner workings in the same way as a modern interpretation by Yu Dan started the Confucian craze. Setting up Tao Institutes would help to reveal what foreigners do not grasp about basic Chinese ideas.- Francesco Sisci (Sep 01, '10)
Death by 55 cuts in China
China is moving to drop capital punishment in the currently effective Criminal Code for 13 economic crimes. Once this happens, 55 crimes for which the death penalty is applicable will remain on the books. Advances on China's legal front may be glacial, but they nevertheless represent progress.- Kent Ewing (Aug 30, '10)
The Dear Leader has left the building
Analysts are scratching their heads over reports that Kim Jong-il traveled to China this week rather than meet Jimmy Carter in Pyongyang. Was he making a defiant gesture to the United States, or cutting an urgent deal with Beijing over resuming the six-party nuclear talks? The aged North Korean leader was introducing his heir, media in the South reported. Others question if he made the trip at all.- Sunny Lee (Aug 27, '10)
Hong Kong grieves - and rages
As Hong Kong observed a silence of three minutes on Thursday to mark the deaths of eight residents killed in a bus hijacking in the Philippines, everyone from the city's top officials to people on the streets and in cyberspace vented anger over the police errors surrounding the deaths. The response of the new president of the Philippines only served to fuel the rage.- Kent Ewing (Aug 26, '10)
Doubts over Ma's tough cure for corruption
Corruption and vice scandals high in Taiwan's judiciary have led President Ma Ying-jeou to consider creating an iron-fisted anti-corruption commission similar to the ones in Hong Kong and Singapore. Overcoming traditions of personal business relationships and red envelopes will be a tough matter, though.- Jens Kastner (Aug 25, '10)
Hostage deaths test China-Philippine ties
The botched and bloody end to the Manila bus siege, in which five Hong Kong tourists were among the eight killed, threatens to hurt the relations of the Philippines with China. It also represents the first big blow against the two-month-old administration of President Benigno Aquino, who will now be hard-pressed to attract as much Chinese investment as his predecessor.- Joel D Adriano (Aug 25, '10)
Testing time for US arms report on China
The annual United States assessment of China's military capabilities is always a cause for a spike in tensions. As China this year took umbrage at this year's late report, analysts were split on the question of the report's usefulness. One thing is certain; whatever the reason for its delay, the report's release couldn't have come at a more testing time in the military-to-military relationship.- Peter J Brown (Aug 24, '10)
The (propaganda) empire strikes in China
China has enlisted 50 home-grown celebrities to take part in a public relations charm offensive that is hoped to present an image of "prosperity, democracy, openness, peace and harmony" and counter negative perceptions of its rise. However, the worldwide campaign could be undermined by China's close support of other famous figures who lead states such as North Korea, Myanmar and Zimbabwe.- Kent Ewing (Aug 23, '10)
Beyond the great wall of mistrust
The dire economic and environmental uncertainties facing the world highlight a need for more effective global governance. However, a Sino-Western synergy that could meet the challenges faces a barrier of mutual mistrust.- David Gosset (Aug 20, '10)
SINOGRAPH
No rush for China
Figures this week indicate that China has replaced Japan as the world's second-largest economy, after the United States. As the world looks on with astonishment, admiration and even fear, Beijing, however, is not swollen with pride, there is no public chest-thumping. China is in no hurry to be number one.- Francesco Sisci (Aug 19, '10)
Speaking Freely
Rising China tests the waters
Beijing views the South China Sea as a leading indicator of how the international community will respond to China's growing power and assertiveness. An anemic international reaction will embolden Beijing, not only in the South China Sea, but elsewhere as well. The United States should insist on open access.
- Abraham M Denmark and Daniel M Kliman (Aug 19, '10)
Deep reasons for China and US to bristle
Bristling over territorial disputes in the South China Sea fits American concerns that China is deliberately nudging the US out of East Asia at a time it is trying to reassert its primacy. Tensions are also high on most fronts associated with China's attempt to reclaim what it sees as its rightful place.- Jing-dong Yuan (Aug 19, '10)
China threat: Now you see it, now you don't
The Pentagon's annual threat assessment on China this year strikes an almost conciliatory tone, taking note of military-to-military ties and commending the People's Liberation Army's increased humanitarian and peacekeeping missions. While the usual warnings about missile programs and power projection were present, the report played down Beijing's capacity for "high-intensity combat operations" far from home.- David Isenberg (Aug 18, '10)
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