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• Hong Kong: Historical irony lost on Swire

  By Dan Green on September 16, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Since the National People’s Congress decided in 2007 to allow Hong Kong’s chief executive to be elected via universal suffrage in 2017, pro-democracy camps in the SAR have been excitedly debating how the process will work. However, when the UK… Read More ›

• Corporal punishment in China’s schools

  By Dan Green on January 4, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  The news today that the principal of a primary school in Xinyang has been fired after two of his teachers caned a four-year-old boy, was shocking enough to make The South China Morning Post. But for me, it made particularly… Read More ›

• Doomsday comes to China

  By Dan Green on December 20, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Provincial level authorities in China have announced that they have arrested 93 people for spreading rumours of the impeding – Mayan predicted – apocalypse, Xinhua has reported. The authorities state that 37 of these arrests have been linked to the… Read More ›

• China: Wen Jiabao “hidden riches” don’t exist, say lawyers

  By Dan Green on October 28, 2012 • ( 9 )

  

  Lawyers for Wen Jiabao, China‘s Premier, have taken the unprecedented step of issuing a written statement late last night rebuking the claims of the New York Times that Wen’s family have amassed a hidden fortune worth US$2.7 billion. In a… Read More ›

• Chinese government ships spotted near Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands

  By Dan Green on October 25, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Just days after Chinese and Japanese envoys met to try to ease tensions over the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, Chinese government maritime surveillance ships entered the disputed 12-nautical mile zone around one of the islands this morning at 6.30am, the South… Read More ›

• Further signs of a strengthening Chinese economy

  By Dan Green on October 24, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Manufacturing and, more importantly, order volumes from international customers have both risen this month, according to the South China Morning Post. The China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) recorded a three-month high in output. Despite GDP just missing… Read More ›

• Lhasa, Tibet named happiest city in China?

  By Dan Green on October 22, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Lhasa, the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, has topped a survey of the top 10 happiest cities in China.Surprised? With the high profile self-immolations that regularly hit the international press (56 have been confirmed in Tibet since 2009),… Read More ›

• Chinese/American relations: The shape of things to come

  By Dan Green on October 21, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  The last week has seen both the US and China flexing their respective economic muscles, as both countries show signs of growing awareness that their relationship will be the most significant defining factor for the geopolitical order for the foreseeable… Read More ›