Tag: Wen Jiabao

  • A great paragraph: Wen Jiabao as prodding CCP rule

    At China Elections and Governance, Yawei Liu, head of the China program at the Carter Center, has an interesting read on CCP legitimacy and Wen Jiabao’s (self-serving) suggestion that even top leaders are helpless in the face of increasingly entrenched interests. The mere fact that the Wen argument is self-serving, however, doesn’t invalidate the point:…

  • China reduces Iran oil buy as US and EU sanctions loom

    The United States and the European Union’s increasingly firm stance against Iran’s nuclear ambitions have, as my colleague Raymond Karam writes, potentially undermined the security of mideast oil supply. In the face of sanctions, Iran has had one relatively stable customer in China, but The Telegraph reports today that China has reduced its oil purchases…

  • A strange photograph

    U.S. President Barack Obama and PRC Premier Wen Jiabao were photographed in Copenhagen. Where the heck are they?

  • Online Voices Aren't Everything in China

    In the months leading up to the Beijing Olympics, which began Friday, English language media have published countless stories on China and its capital. But many of these stories echo each other and few break new ground in the world’s understanding of China. Many emphasize a consistent set of outside concerns and, in portraying conflict,…