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- China (Country Report) in Countries at the Crossroads 2011: A Survey of Democratic Governance by Carl Minzner :: SSRN –
- The Trouble With Taiwan’s New Prostitution Rules – China Real Time Report – WSJ – decriminalized
- China’s Home Price Slide Has Analysts Betting on Government Policy Change – Bloomberg – Analysts at firms including Barclays Capital Research and asset managers such as CBRE Global Investors are betting price declines will force a policy reversal as the tightening weighs on economic growth. A rout in prices and drop in new developments would be felt from Australia and Latin America, where raw materials exports are fueling growth, to Europe and Japan, where machinery makers rely on Chinese sales.
- China’s Holdings of Longer-Term Treasuries Increase Most Since March 2010 – Bloomberg –
- Nature reserve determined for major riverheads ecology– BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — The Chinese cabinet determined Wednesday a national nature reserve for headwaters of three major rivers in China, setting a target of vegetation coverage growth at 30 percent in a decade.A State Council executive meeting, which was presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, made the decision. The nature reserve will cover Qinghai’s 21 counties of four Tibetan autonomous prefectures and one town of Golmud, through which the Qinghai-Tibet Railway passes.The headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers in the northwest province are important sources of fresh water for the whole country and essential to ecology on the Qinghai-Tibet Platea
- Xinhua-China proposes tighter air quality index from 2016 –
- US sees renminbi as threat to top dollar – FT.com – The Chinese renminbi could pose a threat to the international dominance of the US dollar within a decade, according to an independent commission set up by the US Congress.
The annual report of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, published on Wednesday, said China’s efforts to spread international use of its currency were succeeding in broadening its reach. - Qihoo 360 Reports Unaudited Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results — BEIJING, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — – beat and raise. wonder if citron research will be on the conference call
- Youku Announces Unaudited Third Quarter 2011 Financial Results — BEIJING, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — – big miss, down almost 15% AH
- What’s Going On with Beijing’s Air Quality? | ChinaFAQs – What is often missed in this discussion is that the US Embassy’s widely accessed Twitter feed is using an air quality standard that did not come into effect in the US until 2007. In fact, the US did not adopt standards for these small particulates (PM 2.5)i until the late 1990s and the first measurements were not collected until after 2000. Enforcement began only half a decade ago. European enforcement of its standard (less stringent than both the US and the WHO) has only just begun, with data collection beginning in 2008. As one US expert commented to me this week, we need to distinguish between the real progress the Chinese have made in the last decade, and the significant distance they need to go to reach healthy air quality for all of China’s residents.
- Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, Deptuy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes and NSC Senior Director for Asia Danny Russel | The White House – Parliament House
Canberra, Australia - 2011 US-China Economic And Security Review Commission Report to Congress – PDF
- Letting an Ugly Skeleton Out of China’s Closet – NYTimes.com – Surveys have found that domestic violence is widespread here, occurring in 25 to 35 percent of households. Most victims are women, but children, some men and, increasingly, the elderly, suffer too. Surveys suggest that around 90 percent of offenders are men.
- Death toll in NW China school bus accident rises to 20– LANZHOU, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — The death toll in a school bus accident that occurred on Wednesday morning in northwest China’s Gansu Province has risen to 20 following the death of one child later Wednesday.The victims, including 18 preschoolers and two adults, died in a head-on collision between a school bus and a truck in the city of Qingyang, said an official from the city’s work safety bureau.The accident happened around 9:40 a.m. in Yulinzi township of Zhengning county, according to a statement from the bureau. The statement said five people died at the scene, including four children and their bus driver, while 15 others were confirmed dead by midday.
The bureau has blamed overloading for the accident, stating that the bus – a van with nine seats – was carrying 64 people, most of whom were children from Yulinzi’s Little Doctor Kindergarten.
- Xinhua-Full Text: New Progress in Development-oriented Poverty Reduction Program for Rural China – New white paper
- Xinhua-Government aims to reduce poverty over next decade –
- 中国人民银行有关方面负责人关于广义货币供应量（M2）数据的说明－中国人民银行 –
- Dear Mr President, we beg to differ over the future of Asia– bit naive unfortunately//Australia should tell Obama we take a different view on China.
- Chinese man sets himself on fire in Tiananmen Square – Telegraph – The incident – which happened on October 21 – appeared nowhere in China’s censored state media, but was also witnessed by a Daily Telegraph reader who photographed the aftermath as Chinese police rushed to douse the flames using fire extinguishers.
- Chatter in China: Multinationals turn to Weibo | Reuters –
- Cold war in the tropics: China, India vie for Maldives | Reuters –
- Exclusive: Shandong Gold offers $1 billion for Brazil’s Jaguar Mining | Reuters –
- 央行内部人员认为应下调存款准备金率-《财经网》 – PBOC insider thinks reserve ratio should be cut
- Green Expects China Will Cut Reserve Ratio by Year End (Video) – Bloomberg –
- China Telecom, China Unicom Under Anti-trust Probe_英文频道 Caixin Online – Anti-trust authorities are targeting state-owned enterprises for the first time, ever since the passage of China’s 2008 anti-monopoly law
- Regulators May Be Loosening Monetary Strings_英文频道 Caixin Online – Credit restrictions continue to confound banks, but the days of tight monetary policy may be numbered in China
- Officials Ramp Up Charity Transparency_英文频道 Caixin Online – Chinese officials are seeking to win back public trust through a new charity disclosure platform, following a spate of scandals exposing Chinese charities’opaque accounting practices
- Bronte Capital: The Sino Forest Independent Committee Report part 1. – Hempton not buying the report
- Sino-Forest CEO Faces ‘Herculean’ Task – Bloomberg –
- Gingrich Said to Be Paid at Least $1.6 Million by Freddie Mac – Bloomberg – Newt Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac, according to two people familiar with the arrangement.
- The Malt in Beijing: Whiskeys from RMB500,000 and down | Beijing Boyce – Just in case you have an extra gym bag of cash and a penchant for single malts, you can put that money to use at The Malt, a new whiskey bar recently opened beside the BTV building near Jianwai Soho. A bottle of The Macallan 55 Year Old will cost you rmb500,000, with shots at rmb30,000. Those on a budget might instead order a bottle of Glenlivet 1937 at RMB180,000
- Chinese Navy “Peace Ark” hospital ship heads for Costa Rica_XINHUANET –
- 河南宋基会高层多为高官老总 投资换捐赠成模式_新闻_腾讯网– latest corrupt charity in china–Henan Song Qingling foundation[导读]有媒体报道，河南宋基会背景复杂，其管理层多系高官和老总。从宋基投资成立至今，河南宋基会至少有5亿元的捐赠来源于“投资换取捐赠”。
- 我国拟强制企业缴全五险 可避免职工利益受损_新闻_腾讯网 – 本报讯（记者赵鹏）昨天，人力资源和社会保障部公布《社会保险费申报缴纳管理规定（草案）》，并向社会公开征求意见。今后，养老、医疗、失业、工伤和生育等五项社会保险有望统一征收，以保障参保者的利益不受损，社保基金也将应收尽收。此外以个人身份参加社会保险的，也有望在网上办理缴费申报。
- 温州立人救赎存疑：房、煤化解22亿高利贷 – 金融 – 21世纪网– dont underestimate yr end debt repayment pain, esp in wenzhou“年关结账”或催生二次倒闭潮，温州式熟人间的信任，正被彻底撕去。
- Philippines Navigates Rocky Relations With China – NYTimes.com – PALAWAN, Philippines — The rhetorical missiles fired by a state-owned Chinese newspaper late last month landed squarely on the shores of this westernmost province and a few dozen kilometers from the coral reefs and scrub-covered islets claimed by China, the Philippines and a number of other nations.
- Why China Won’t Listen – NYTimes.com– China and the United States have been discussing human rights issues for so many years that it is baffling that American leaders remain so clueless about the Chinese government’s mind-set. Previous high-profile cases were resolved behind the scenes. Mr. Chen’s case should have been approached this way, too — not through public pressure.I welcome American politicians’ concerns about China’s human rights situation. But I have one request: please be a bit more considerate, a bit more flexible, and a bit more tactful about our leaders’ mind-set. That way, you — and we — might have more success.
- Chinese Group Buy 24quan Closing Offices, Withholding Wages, Ignoring Debts | Tech in Asia –
- about | needles and herbs – After completing a double degree in Chinese medicine and human biology and then working as an acupuncturist and herbalist in Australia, I decided I needed Chinese behind me to understand the complexities of Chinese medicine. In 2009 I got serious about my Chinese language studies. Its 2011 now and I am undertaking some research whilst interning in the Chinese medicine department of a military hospital in the western region of Beijing. I spend three days a week with a very well renowned doctor. This doctor happens to treat some of the most important military figures in Beijing. Instead of catching up on who these military figures are and why they are so important. I am blogging about their stools, sleep and other bodily functions and sharing this information with readers.
- Firewall Law Could Infringe on Free Speech – NYTimes.com– China operates the world’s most elaborate and opaque system of Internet censorship. But Congress, under pressure to take action against the theft of intellectual property, is considering misguided legislation that would strengthen China’s Great Firewall and even bring major features of it to America.The legislation — the Protect IP Act, which has been introduced in the Senate, and a House version known as the Stop Online Piracy Act — have an impressive array of well-financed backers, including the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Motion Picture Association of America, the American Federation of Musicians, the Directors Guild of America, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Screen Actors Guild. The bills aim not to censor political or religious speech as China does, but to protect American intellectual property. Alarm at the infringement of creative works through the Internet is justifiable. The solutions offered by the legislation, however, threaten to inflict collateral damage on democratic discourse and dissent both at home and around the world.
- CapitalVue News: China Broadens M2 Calculation– November 16 — The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) had since October included the deposits of non-deposit financial institutions in deposit-taking financial institutions, and the deposits of the public housing reserve fund, in the calculations of broad money M2, reports China Business News.With the broadening of the M2, the balance of M2 in October rose 12.9 percent year-on-year to 81.68 trillion yuan. In October 2010, the balance of M2 was 72.35 trillion yuan.
- U.S. Sees China Everywhere As It Shifts Attention to Asia – NYTimes.com – The last time the remote Australian city of Darwin played a significant role in American military planning was during the early days of World War II, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur used the port as the base for his campaign to reclaim the Pacific from the Japanese.
- Chinese state media say 17 preschoolers killed – Yahoo! News – Chinese state media say 17 preschoolers and two adults have been killed in a bus accident in Gansu province.
- CFR Asia Unbound » Chinese Hacking Chinese – Whenever the United States raises computer attacks that appear to come from computers based in China, Chinese government officials are quick to point out that they are also victims: “The fact is that China itself faces a rapid rise of cyber-crimes and attacks.”
- Sinograin Said to Buy 600,000 Tons of U.S. Soybeans to Boost State Stocks – Bloomberg –
- Nationalism Replaces Crisis as Biggest Threat to Metal Supply: Commodities – Bloomberg –
- China Foreign Investment Rises at Faster Pace – Bloomberg – Foreign direct investment in China grew at a faster pace in October, signaling corporate spending is holding up amid the global financial turmoil.
Investment rose 8.8 percent from a year earlier to $8.33 billion, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement in Beijing. The gain was 7.9 percent in September. Inflows in the first 11 months of the year increased 15.9 percent, the ministry said. - Harbin Housing Push Puts ‘Shantytowns’ on Edge_英文频道 Caixin Online – Residents of poor and not-so-poor neighborhoods in Harbin are at the center of a controversial housing initiative
- WRAPUP 1-Clinton in Manila amid ASEAN row over South China Sea | Reuters– The Philippines criticised fellow Southeast Asian nations on Tuesday for failing to take a united stand against China over maritime rights in the South China Sea, a crucial commercial shipping lane thought to contain valuable oil and minerals.The comments by Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario coincide with the arrival of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Manila for a two-day visit in which the Philippines is likely to press Washington to help resolve disputes in the sea lanes claimed by China.
- High childhood IQ linked to subsequent illicit drug use, research suggests –
- Data Bolster China’s Currency Case – WSJ.com – BEIJING—A key measure of China’s surplus with the outside world fell sharply in the third quarter, adding to evidence that the country is shifting away from a reliance on exports and undermining the case for a faster yuan rise.
- 单仁平：“艾未未们”被淘汰是社会潮流_评论_环球网 – 摘要：艾未未及“艾未未们”未必真的没有机会，中国政府如果犯巨大的错误，如果中国社会在境外舆论的鼓动下失去判断力，未来就很难说。其实，“艾未未们”的前途，是和中国的噩运挂钩的。
- Siweiluozi’s Blog: Translation: “Elimination of ‘Ai Weiweis’ is the Trend of Society”– I’m not sure why I feel compelled to translate these things. As a piece of invective, it pales in comparison to this earlier example. But since there seems to be no shortage of interest in this story and I’m never one to back down from a diversion, here it is.This is a very rough and sometimes loose translation the latest attack on Ai Weiwei to appear in the pages of the Global Times newspaper, in a commentary most likely penned by the editor, Hu Xijin. I didn’t bother to check whether the Global Times already produced an English version of this masterpiece. If not, then I suppose I’ve just done them a favor.
- Luxury consumption on Jinbao Street | Danwei– Inhwa Chung and Lucy March are currently interning at Danwei. They have spent several weeks researching stores and consumers on one of Beijing’s luxury shopping streets by talking to sales staff and customers.Jinbao Street screams wealth. Jinbao (金宝) means “gold and treasure” and the name is apt:
- China’s Decade of Free Trade – Damien Ma – International – The Atlantic – The Obama administration’s trade agenda has Beijing upset. What will happen to unfinished Chinese reforms in a post-WTO world?
- Introducing China links – macrobusiness.com.au | macrobusiness.com.au – Welcome to a new MB feature, courtesy of the linkage prowess of the blogger Sinocism. We will be reproducing these exceptional Chinese links daily before lunch time:
- China model can absorb best of the West, discard rest – People’s Daily Online – hasn’t China tried that before? see late qing 中学为体西学为用
- India’s increasing troop may go nowhere – People’s Daily Online– India plans to recruit 100,000 soldiers over the next five years and send them to the China-India border areas to cement its military strength there, according to a report by the Times of India on Nov. 2. India’s defense ministry has already approved a 13 billion-U.S. dollar military modernization plan.The average growth rate of India’s military spending has stood at 7 percent to 8 percent for more than a decade, and its military spending ranks ninth in the world. India is also the world’s largest arms imports country. The spread of the “China threat” theory, the increase of troops to the disputed areas near the China-India border, and the display of a tough attitude toward China all aim to make a breakthrough in further increasing military spending.
- China’s JF-17 fighter debuts in Middle East – People’s Daily Online – The JF-17 Thunder fighter, a combat aircraft developed by China, was on display during the 12th Dubai International Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Nov. 13, 2011.
- Australia could be caught in Sino-US crossfire – People’s Daily Online– US President Barack Obama arrived in Australia today for a long-delayed visit. It is reported that Obama is going to announce an expanded US military presence in Australia. The move is widely seen as a renewal of the US-Australia alliance to keep China in check.It is also interpreted as a choice made by Australia between the US and China, the two largest Asia-Pacific powers. Prime Minister Julia Gillard refuted the interpretation Tuesday, saying that “it is well and truly possible for us, in this growing region of the world, to have an ally in the US and to have deep friendships in our region, including with China.”
- On the march in Pakistan – People’s Daily Online – The military exercises which begin today will involve 260 soldiers from China and 230 of their Pakistan counterparts. The Pakistan military says the exercises will include techniques and procedures involved in low-intensity conflict environment