Here’s a bit of pre-Olympic anxiety for you: No matter how many gold medals the Chinese team grabs in Beijing next month, or how many records its athletes set, they won’t make up for the woes of the Chinese men’s soccer team, writes history professor and author Xu Guoqi in today’s Washington Post: The real […]
Category: Politics & Society
A senior Shanghai security official said police had stopped a plan for a terrorist attack against an Olympic arena in the city during the Olympics, the Wall Street Journal reported. Shanghai deputy director of public security Cheng Jiulong said police had conducted raids and caught a terrorist cell in the city, though he did not […]
China is to set up designated areas in three parks in Beijing in which people can make protests during the Olympic Games, the Wall Street Journal reported. A park in the city’s main diplomatic area and another in the university district will each play host to one of these designated protest areas. Given that Chinese […]
Five of mainland China’s six Olympic host cities have effectively suspended business visa services for foreigners until after the games, the South China Morning Post reported. Authorities in Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Shenyang and Qinhuangdao will no longer provide the invitation letters required in support of applications to visit the mainland for business, market research or […]
Urban Chinese are overwhelmingly happy with their country’s economic and political progress, and register higher levels of "national contentment" than citizens of other nations, according to public-opinon survey by the Pew Research Center, the Wall Street Journal reported. Of the 3,212 Chinese surveyed, 82% considered the country’s economic situation "good," compared to 69% of Austrialians, […]