The following are excerpts from /A’s Week in Retrospect. The site will go live in a month and will offer intelligent aggregation of North and Southeast Asian news headlines by journalists in the region.
[Week of July 13-19]
Rio Tinto case a warning to foreign business in China
The arrest of Stern Hu and three other employees of [...]
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Today marked the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. The foreign community here in Beijing waited in anticipation for some sign of protest. Those holding their breath gathered near the Square and waited. Nothing happened.
To China watchers who hope for indicators of democracy sprouting many Chinese will say that China has been offered [...]
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Beichuan Middle School was destroyed in last year’s Sichuan earthquake. Officials are reticent to give final numbers of students who died while attending the school, but they do offer figures for the number of students currently attending school at a temporary location in Mianyang today. That figure of 3000 students encompasses survivors from seven different [...]
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What has left the biggest impression on me after these five days of visiting some of the earthquake hit areas of Sichuan, is the resilience of the people who experienced death and devastation on such a grand scale. One farmer I spoke to, Zhao Rude, was energetic and sprightly for a seventy year-old as he [...]
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People’s Bank of China vice governor Su Ning responded to “persons in a Western country [who] have said China is manipulating the yuan,” in an announcement reported by Chinese news agency Xinhua. “These remarks are not only inconsistent with the facts but they are misleading about the reasons for the financial crisis.” All this was [...]
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The new American treasury secretary’s comments last week seem to indicate that the new presidency will take a protectionist stance towards China. In a written Timothy Geithner said “President Obama - backed by the conclusions of a broad range of economists - believes that China is manipulating its currency.” While comments in the Chinese [...]
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2008 marked the 30th year since China’s economic reform and so-called ‘opening up.’ In his New Year’s speech, Chinese President Hu Jintao remarked on China’s progress and called for Chinese to “uphold the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” We know what much of the Western world thinks about China, but what does [...]
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