links for 2007-07-18
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Food safety fears and broad economic concerns keep China in U.S. headlines, but the epochal rise of America’s greatest potential rival has barely rated a blip so far in the 2008 presidential campaign.
links for 2007-07-16
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According to a survey by Jiji Press, Mr Abe’s popularity stands at 25.7%, his worst rating since taking office in September last year.
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The paper lantern, priced at 10,000 yen (82 dollars), bears Abe’s name but not his title.
Fun With Fat Stats
The BBC today ends a story about changes in Chinese efforts to decrease obesity with this useless statement:
One-fifth of the world’s overweight and obese people live in China and the numbers are rising dramatically.
Why useless? That doesn’t tell us anything about whether China has higher obesity prevalence than anywhere else. And indeed, it seems they do not, given that China’s population is almost exactly one-fifth of the world’s:
World Population (July 2007 CIA estimate): 6,602,224,175
Population of the PRC (July 2007 CIA estimate): 1,321,851,888
1321851888 / 6202224175 = 0.200213118 = really close to 1/5
This is to say nothing of the “look how different they are” tone of the article as a whole.
links for 2007-07-13
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Professor Shinichi Kitaoka from Tokyo University, former deputy Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, heads the Japanese side of the China-Japan Joint History Research Committee.
links for 2007-07-08
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Japan’s Ministry of Defense has issued its first white paper as the Ministry of Defense, and it seems that this year’s edition is unique in its focus on China as a threat to Japan.
The Times They Are A-Changin’
I’m working on a big change for this site. For almost a year, I wrote from Washington, D.C. Over that time some of my goals have developed, and I have a more complete vision for what I’d like to create in this space. Right now I’m at Stanford University in California working many hours a day to learn Mandarin as quickly as possible. As I mentioned before, I’ll be moving to Beijing to sink myself further into studies and to learn about how people and countries interact in East Asia and across the Pacific.
In what spare time I have here, I’m working on a relaunch for this website, something which I expect to complete by the summer’s end. Some of the content may change, but the goal of providing insight into the relations among China, Japan, and the United States will not change.
While I’m working on the relaunch, I will have less time to write, but I think you will appreciate the new structure. And I am sure moving from the capital of the United States of America to the capital of the People’s Republic of China will provide ample subject matter.
—Graham
links for 2007-07-06
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Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, Democratic front-runners in the November 2008 presidential race, signed on last week as co-sponsors of bipartisan legislation that was unveiled on June 13, Senate aides said.
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But a company in the United States says the Chinese drug is basically stolen property, rushed to market with inadequate testing and in violation of patent rights.
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The arrangement could be the first since normalization of China-Japan ties in 1972.
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Fan Yinlong, an official with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, said Wednesday the city will cut traffic by about 1 million vehicles for two weeks in August. The period will roughly coincide with the dates for the 2008 Olympics — A
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Rear Adm. Rick Wren, the commander of the Japan-based aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk’s battle group, told The Associated Press that Washington wants China to become a stabilizing force in Asia, but that it has some reservations about Beijing’s military e
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Business & Technology | Next “Made in China” label could be on automobiles | Seattle Times NewspaperChrysler Group signed a deal Wednesday with China’s biggest automaker, Chery, to launch a low-cost production venture that could export the first Chinese-made cars to the United States.
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Where Deng, the late political patriarch, dumped Maoism and reintroduced market economics, Mr Chen has transformed Nasdaq-listed Shanda’s business model by scrapping subscription fees for its “massively multiplayer online role-playing games”, or MMO
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What’s interesting about the piece is that is reveals a great deal about Xinhua’s self-perceived role as the gatekeeper between Chinese news and English speaking world.
links for 2007-07-05
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“Nanking,” a U.S.-made film documenting eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed by Japanese troops in China during World War Two, opened in Beijing on Tuesday, as the two countries struggle to mend strained ties.
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China on Tuesday expressed the hope that Sino-Japanese ties should move headway as it staged activities marking the 70th anniversary of the War of Resistance against Japan.
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The report was completed by the original investigation committee of China’s “comfort women” injury facts. The committee began its investigation last September and completed the first stage in March of this year.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said here Tuesday that developed countries should provide more funds and technological support to developing countries to help them address climate change.
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The first report by the Investigative Committee on Former Chinese “Comfort Women”, co-founded by All China Lawyers’ Association (ACLA) and China Legal Aid Foundation, traced 17 more survivors besides the ones who have already sued the Japanese government.
links for 2007-07-03
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1,809 Chinese troops, police, military observers, and others are deployed worldwide. The majority – 1,273 – are here in Africa, building roads, setting up clinics, patrolling troubled villages
