In a detailed write-up for the Columbia Journalism Review former foreign correspondent Howard French describes how Bloomberg started to engage in political reporting in China, to compete with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, but killed a successful journalism project, after China´s power-brokers turned up the heat.Read More →
Financial analysts Sara Hsu has been predicting doomsday scenario´s for China´s financial stability in the past. But the announced financial reforms have made her carefully optimistic about the direction the country is taking, she writes in the China Brief.Read More →
Twenty years ago the internet in China became available, and no other change has made such an impacts on the Chinese society, says Kaiser Kuo, director international communication at China´s largest search engine Baidu at CNN.Read More →
Financial analyst Sara Hsu tries to make sense out of the long list of policy changes the central bank, the People´s Bank of China (PBOC) has announced in the past year, under the Xi-Li government. “Right now, the opaque is becoming more transparent,” she writes in The Diplomat.Read More →
China´s rich are leaving the motherland in a higher speed than ever, and pollution is one of the major driver behind this spike in emigration, notes China´s rich list founder Rupert Hoogewerf in Time.Read More →
President Xi Jinping is China´s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, argues China analyst Arthur Kroeber for the Brookings Institute. His conclusion after a solid analysis: reformers are back in charge but concerns remain.Read More →
Wednesday the annual National People Congress (NPC) gathers in Beijing, and among them 31 billionaires, according to the Hurun Rich List founded by Rupert Hoogewerf in the Hong Kong Standard. The NPC count close to 3,000 delegates.Read More →
China´s leading search engine Baidu launched just before Chinese New Year a heatmap, showing how the millions of Chinese make their way home and back. Director international communication Kaiser Kuo show some of the findings and patterns Baidu discovered to the Wall Street Journal.Read More →
The Vagina Monologues have sparked off a lot of debate, but nowhere as ugly as in China, writes author Zhang Lijia on her website. “The online assault on the students was a brutal reminder that beyond this circle of enlightened women, many do not favour gender equality.”Read More →
Near Beijing China will set up a major commercial production hub for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s), defense analyst Wendell Minnick reports in Defense News. Read More →
For the communist party, fighting corruption is a matter of life and death, author Zhang Lijia told CNN’s anchor Kristie Lu Stout in “On China”, focusing on the crackdown on corruption by the current leadership. “They will catch a big tiger from each province. But again you guess, which tiger will get caught. The most corrupt one, or the most politically weak?”Read More →
After the recent closure of the Bo Xilai trial, expectation was that China’s current leader Xi Jinping would lay down for a while. But the opposite is happening as he takes on both Zhou Yongkang and Jiang Jiemin, a former and a current polit-bureau member, tells analyst Arthur Kroeber, according to Bloomberg.Read More →