China
Rising unemployment in Taiwan as exports plunge
By John Chan, March 3, 2009
In the face of the rapidly deteriorating global recession, job losses in Taiwan are rising sharply. The official statistics released last Thursday showed that unemployment rose to 5.31 percent in Janu...
China’s stimulus package threatens more economic turmoil
By John Chan, February 27, 2009
When the Chinese government’s huge stimulus package was announced last November, it was hailed in international financial circles. However, far from reviving the economy, there are signs that the st...
Coal mine explosion in China kills 74
By John Chan, February 24, 2009
China’s notoriously dangerous coal industry recorded another tragedy last Sunday, when at least 74 miners died and 114 were injured in a gas explosion.
Hillary Clinton presses China to keep buying US debt
By Bill Van Auken, February 24, 2009
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concluded her weeklong Asian tour with an appeal to Beijing to keep up its purchases of US treasury notes or risk the onset of an even deeper economic crisis that...
Chinese president demands army loyalty amid growing social discontent
By John Chan, February 19, 2009
In an extraordinary move revealing fears of social unrest, Chinese President Hu Jintao recently convened a meeting of the powerful Central Military Commission in order to lay down the law to the army ...
Asia’s export economies in free fall
By John Chan, February 14, 2009
Staggering falls in exports across Asia have ended all claims that the global slump may be nearing its bottom.
Millions of job losses threaten to trigger social unrest in China
By Carol Divjak, February 10, 2009
With up to 26 million internal migrant workers are now jobless, the Chinese government is facing an unemployment crisis far worse than in the late 1990s, when lay-offs of more than 30 million workers ...
US-China trade tensions set to escalate
By John Chan, February 3, 2009
By threatening to list China as a “currency manipulator,” the Obama administration has signalled a more confrontational approach to Beijing.
China dispatches warships to Somali waters
By Carol Divjak, January 21, 2009
China has used attacks on Chinese ships by pirates off the coast of Somalia, and the authorisation by the UN Security Council to fight piracy, to launch itself as a blue water naval force on the inter...
No fanfare to mark 30 years of China’s market reform
By John Chan, January 14, 2009
The Chinese Communist Party’s hopes for a never-ending economic boom are rapidly turning sour.
The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
Part 3
By John Chan, January 7, 2009
The rise and fall of the 1925-1927 Second Chinese Revolution was one of the most significant political events of the twentieth century. One cannot understand modern Chinese history without examining i...
The tragedy of the 1925-1927 Chinese Revolution
Part 2
By John Chan, January 6, 2009
The rise and fall of the 1925-1927 Second Chinese Revolution was one of the most significant political events of the twentieth century. One cannot understand modern Chinese history without examining i...
