September 2010
China Strikes Positive Note in Talks With U.S.
- Tue, 09/07/2010 - 12:00
Chinese leaders called for enhanced dialogue and cooperation with the U.S. in meetings with visiting White House officials, signaling Beijing's concern that tensions over currency and other issues are again threatening ties between the world's two key economies.
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China Broadens Its Strategy in the South Pacific
- Tue, 09/07/2010 - 12:00
Most Westerners think of the South Pacific island nation of Fiji as the place on the label of a somewhat high-end brand of bottled water. But to those looking beyond its exotic waterfalls and beaches, the country is hardly a tropical idyll.
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Resentment Simmers in Western Chinese Region
- Sun, 09/05/2010 - 12:00
The five-star hotels are full, bulldozers are making quick work of dreary slums and billboards for “French-style villas” call out to the nouveau riche. In the year since rioting between the Han and Uighur ethnic groups killed nearly 200 people in this city in far western China, life appears to be returning to normal.
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Clique of three hardliners sprang from oilfields
- Sun, 09/05/2010 - 12:00
John Garnaut reports from Beijing on the men who have run western China.
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All the Propaganda That's Fit to Print
- Sun, 09/05/2010 - 12:00
Why Xinhua, China’s state news agency, could be the future of journalism.
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Decades after call for reform, Tibet remains in crisis
- Sun, 09/05/2010 - 12:00
The response of Chinese leaders is to tighten hardline policies further, writes John Garnaut.
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China the Aggressor?
- Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:00
China’s recent assertiveness in the East and South China Seas and along the Sino-Indian border has prompted intense debate. Is Beijing finally showing its real irredentist colors? Is this a short-term display of nationalism as party leaders jockey for positions in the Politburo and Central Committee in 2012?
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The last days of old Kashgar
- Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:00
Kashgar, in China's remote far-west Xinjiang province, lies on a fertile crescent at the convergence of ancient caravan routes linking India, Central Asia and China. For over a millenium, this fabled city was a crucial link in the Silk Route economy, and its culture thrived.
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India Must Master the Great Game
- Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:00
Strategic tensions between Asia's rising giants, China and India, are palpably worsening. While there's enough blame for this situation to go around, much of it does lie with China. But India also needs to rethink its approach to great power rivalry in order to manage the contest sensibly.
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KINE: China's journalists under threat
- Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:00
Native reporters are denied deference shown foreign scribes
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