Author: Graham Webster

  • links for 2007-04-14

    US expects aviation agreement with China by May – Yahoo! News “We want to reach meaningful agreement about having full and open liberalisation of aviation,” Mary Peters told a gathering of US businesspeople in Beijing. China’s Wen wrapping up trip to Japan – Yahoo! News Kyodo News agency quoted him as adding, however: “I cannot…


  • NYT Forgets to Look Past Hollywood in China-Sudan Story

    Helene Cooper writes in The New York Times: [I]n the past week, strange things have happened. A senior Chinese official, Zhai Jun, traveled to Sudan to push the Sudanese government to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force. Mr. Zhai even went all the way to Darfur and toured three refugee camps, a rare event for…


  • links for 2007-04-13

    China’s Wen woos Japan, warns on Taiwan, history – Yahoo! News Wen stressed Beijing’s theme of peaceful development to Japan’s parliament as part of a three-day trip weighted more with symbolic gestures than real breakthroughs in feuds over energy, territory and history. Wen jogs with Japanese citizens, shows off Chinese martial arts Wearing a dark…


  • Asahi: Stating the Obvious With a Little Attitude

    The English version of the Asahi Shimbun article about the U.S. action against China in the WTO over intellectual property has a pretty obvious headline: “WTO complaints against China put Japan in a bind.” It addresses the fact that the U.S. government asked Japan to join the action (and they haven’t decided yet as far…


  • links for 2007-04-12

    Making Culture Count — Beijing Review “Chinese and Japanese citizens have found themselves inextricably linked by strong cultural bonds. …” Interview with the President of Peking University: Our Students ‘Are the Best from Each Province’ “SPIEGEL: Would you kick out a mathematics student who failed a course in the teachings of Mao Zedong? Xu: No,…