Miscellaneous News About China

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Daisuke Wakabayashi and Alison Tudor, Custody Case Tinged by Politics;
Dispute Raises U.S. Concern Over Japan's Failure to Sign Agreement on Child Abductions. Wall Street Journal, Oct. 5, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125469778121862591.html
("The U.S., China, the U.K., major European countries and Australia all adhere to the agreement")

My comment: Like Japan, Taiwan is NOT a signatory to the treaty.


----------------Separately
(1) Ian Johnson, In China, the Forgotten Manchu Seek to Rekindle Their Glory. Wall Street Journal, Oct. 3, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125452110732160485.html?mod=sphere_ts&mod=sphere_wd
("The policies [Chinese Communists adopted after 1949, which were minorities programs imported from the Soviets] have been a double-edged sword. By emblazoning people's ethnicity on their identity cards and passports, few can forget their past.

Note:
(a) Hasutai 钮赫 (I cannot find the Chinese translation for Hukshen)
(b) Xibe 锡伯

(2) Frederik Balfour, Fixing an Out-of-Whack Global Economy. Stephen Roach, who predicted the downturn, says the West and Asia need to trade spending habits. BusinessWeek, Oct. 12, 2009 (cover date)
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_41/b4150077804454.htm
(book review on Stephen Roach, The Next Asia; Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization. Wiley, 2009)

Quote:

"Roach argues that Chinese consumers, who accounted for just 35% of their country's GDP in 2007, compared with 72% for U.S. consumers, won't loosen their purse strings until China improves its tattered social safety net. The national social security scheme, for example, has just enough in its coffers to provide $100 per capita in lifetime benefits. No wonder China has 20% of the world's population but accounts for just 3% of global consumption.

"And while the author says one cannot paint the rest of the countries in Asia with one brush, in the case of Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan, he doesn't even bother taking one up.

(3) 美国指控三中国人两公司非法出口武器. VOA Chinese, Oct. 6, 2009.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2009-10-06-voa32.cfm

Note:
(a) Here is the press release:

Three Chinese Nationals And Two Corporations Charged With Illegally Exporting Defense Articles And Commerce Controlled Electronics Components To China And Conspiring To Violate Us Export Laws. US attorney's office for the District of Massachusetts, Oct. 5, 2009.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ma/Press%20Office%20-%20Press%20Release%20Files/Oct2009/ChitronPR.html

(b) 驰创电子公司 Citron Electronics

(4) 中国经济发展 美公司涉华反腐罚款激增. VOA Chinese, Oct. 6, 2009.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2009-10-04-voa46.cfm

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