The boat coffin [1] recently unearthed in the Yanjinggou Developing Zone of Chengdu City dates back to the Warring States Era (475 B.C. – 221 B.C.). On December 6, archeologists removed the top of the coffin. The boat coffin is 6.84 meters (nearly 23 feet) in length, its internal chamber 4.19 meters in length. Of […]

BEIJING—A Chinese court has jailed a son of an exiled Muslim dissident for seven years for tax evasion in what one critic said was retaliation for her work in championing the rights of fellow Muslims. Alimu Ahbudurimu was convicted of evading taxes worth 208,430 yuan ($26,000), Xinhua news agency said, adding that brother Kahaer Ahbudurimu […]

BEIJING — A Chinese government official has been executed for spying for Taiwan, and thousands of civil servants have been shown an “educational” video of the case as a warning, two government sources said on Monday. China and Taiwan have been spying on each other since their split at the end of the Chinese civil […]

Last month Amnesty International published a report branding the Chinese communist party (CCP) as the “most irresponsible” in the world because it exported dangerous weapons to Burma, Nepal, Sudan, and the Great Lakes region in Africa. Having such weapons has intensified the tensions and conflicts in these regions and directly resulted in an increase in […]

China's regional development policies have increased dramatically in recent years. In 1999, twenty years after China started its economic reform, the gap in economic development and people's income in China's east and west reached an unprecedented level. To restore the imbalance, the then Party chief, Jiang Zemin, announced Beijing's policy to speed up the economic […]

According to a report issued by an investigative group, the Falun Gong practitioners held in the Sujiatun underground concentration camp have been transferred. The Integrated Committee to Investigate the Secret Sujiatun Concentration Camp and the Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (Committee to Investigate the Facts) in a statement (Click here for […]

BEIJING — China's foreign minister left on Wednesday on a tour of six African nations, underscoring Beijing's accelerating economic and diplomatic presence in a region whose energy and natural resources it covets. Li Zhaoxing will also seek to shore up ties with countries that have in past had relations with its diplomatic rival, Taiwan, during […]

A former Professor of procedural law at Beijing University recently presided over what he and his associates are calling the Sydney International Criminal Tribunal, short for "The Sydney International Criminal Tribunal to bring the CCP's Crimes Against Humanity". On 19 August 2005, Professor Yuan Hongbing, clad in a barrister's wig and gown, opened the proceedings […]

The White House announced that because of Hurricane Katrina, the scheduled Sept. 7 summit between Hu and Bush was postponed with no subsequent visit announced. However, both leaders meet on the sidelines of the annual meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, from Sept. 14-16. Hu&#039s scheduled visit to the […]

NEW YORK – Chinese top leader Hu Jintao delivered two speeches to the United Nations General Assembly last week, the first addressing aid for developing countries, and the second–to the suspicion of some analysts–focusing on peace, fair trade, and global responsibility. Hu's first speech outlined five new measures for China to provide aid to developing […]

For centuries, China has been hailed the last great untapped market in the world. One enterprising Englishman in the 1850s famously said that if he “could add an inch of material to every Chinaman&#039s shirt tail, Manchester weavers would go forever.” In order to reach their goals of breaking into the Chinese market, Britain flooded […]

Please see Understanding China's Economy Requires Looking Beneath the Surface (Pt. I) *********************************************** IV. Bank Debts (cont.) Funding the Deficit on Social Security Programs China's funding gap for social security, medical care, pensions, etc., is the government's debt. In the past 50 years or so, the process of China's industrialization and accumulation of state assets […]

BEIJING – China has detained a U.S. citizen on suspicion of spying for ideological foe Taiwan, keeping him under house arrest without charge for nearly three months, the U.S. embassy in Beijing said on Friday. Chinese-born Xie Chunren was arrested in the southwestern province of Sichuan on May 31 after he travelled there from the […]

Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and other officials warned the US about trade with China on Friday.

BEIJING – Chinese leaders stunned the world last week with an uncharacteristic disclosure that the country was losing its People&#039s War on Drugs, conceding it had failed to control smuggling or reduce the rampant recreational narcotics use that is dogging the communist republic. As an American working and residing in Beijing, I am uncomfortably aware […]