A few good posts over on Paul Midler’s The China Game blog over the last couple days. In the first, he reproduces a letter from a reader drawing an important distinction between China’s financial and “real” economies, and how exposed each is to external forces: One point that I think needs to be borne in […]
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The Paris leg of the Olympic torch relay was severely distrupted by protesters yesterday, forcing Olympic organizers to extinguish the torch and place it on a bus five times, AP reported. Despite the deployment of around 3,000 officers meant to separate torch runners from protesters, activists repeatedly tried to douse the torch with water, with […]
Taiwan’s Vice President-elect Vincent Siew may meet Chinese leader Hu Jintao at a trade fair this week, Reuters reported. A meeting would represent a significant diplomatic breakthrough, since it comes shortly after President-elect Ma Ying-jeou’s landslide victory in last month’s elections. Ma’s campaign had pledged to improve ties with the mainland. Siew will be leading […]
The top Chinese Communist Party official in Tibet has insisted that the Olympic torch will pass through the region in late June, AFP reported. Sunday’s statement by Zhang Qingli comes as the initial stages of the torch relay have been dominated by protests against Beijing’s recent crackdown on bloody anti-China riots in Tibet. There were […]
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Too many cooks
China’s new super-ministries are a good move, but ultimately miss the point