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> News of the day < WASHINGTON — The United States and its allies, frustrated in their efforts to pressure China directly to change its economic policies, are seeking to enlist other developing nations in an international campaign that China may find more palatable. At a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations on Friday, the United States [...] |
– Tue Apr 5, 2:36 am ET SYDNEY (AFP) – China became Australia’s top inbound tourism market for the first time in February, data showed Tuesday, with Chinese New Year celebrations and international students driving a surge in arrivals. Some 77,000 Chinese touched down in Australia in February, the statistics bureau said, beating New Zealand, Britain and the United [...]
BEIJING — At the elaborately renovated National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square, visitors interested in the recent history of the world’s fastest rising power can gaze at the cowboy hat that Deng Xiaoping once wore when he visited the United States, or admire the bullhorn that President Hu Jintao used to exhort people to [...]
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who disappeared into police custody in Beijing after he was arrested on Sunday while trying to board a flight for Hong Kong, is a fully 21st-century figure, global-minded, media-savvy, widely networked. He is also the embodiment of a cultural type, largely unfamiliar to the West, that dates far back into [...]
Controversial writer and racing driver Han Han intends to write a column for the New York Times, said Shen Haobo, president of China’s largest private publisher, Beijing Motie Books, on Monday (March 21), according to a report from the state-run Global Times. Han told Shen that arrangements between him and the New York Times have [...]
China’s leading blogger Han Han made an emotional online appeal to Robin Li, CEO of Baidu.com to rectify copyright infringements on the largest Chinese search engine. Han Han’s blog, published early on Saturday, complained that representatives sent by Baidu were arrogant in the copyright negotiations with authors and refused to admit any act of piracy. [...]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A Chinese official said Monday that New Zealand should consider special compensation to parents of Chinese students killed in an earthquake last month because their loss was magnified under the country’s one-child policy. Seven students from China have been identified among the 166 confirmed deaths in the quake that devastated Christchurch [...]