Michael Pettis submits:
Sorry to regular readers for my blog’s being out of commission for much of the past week, but apparently it has created too much traffic for the host, so without giving me any warning they pulled the site. We came up with a temporary solution and will [...]
Now let the madness begin. On Tuesday this week the flood gates of the official Expo site were opened and 200, 000 excited and over eager tourists poured in for the trial run or ‘soft opening day’ of the World Expo 2010.
With only 8 days to go before the official opening of the Expo, the [...]
If you’re like some of us here at Shanghaiist, you might find yourself joking that global warming should accelerate rather than cease – didn’t you feel that frigid air on your skin this morning this twenty second day of April? In any case, everyone knows that global warming can actually cause [...]
Video of aid delivery in the Yushu earthquake region from NoCommentTV.
Jane Voodikon of GoChengdoo has an excellent report of what’s happening in the aftermath of the Yushu earthquake in an interview with Peter Goff of the Sichuan Quake Relief team who have just returned from an aid-delivery trip to Qinghai’s Longbao Town. The report is [...]
A lot more rehearsed and a lot less real grieving than what we saw in 2008:
The Falungong group may have all the money in the world to spread their anti-CCP message through TV stations and newspapers, but they still haven’t forgotten to win hearts back on their homebase here by putting their propaganda on the humble 1RMB note, as @AlexBowman discovers. The writing alleges that the CCP has created fake [...]
Dinglespeaks writes:”H had told me how some Chinese people can be very destructive when they move out of an apartment. In her previous apartment the previous tenant had been pissed with the landlord and smeared paint all over the apartment in an effort to cost his landlord money. We think there’s a similar [...]
Earlier this year, we brought you the news that Shanghai’s youth values are turning a shade greener, with ever increasing awareness of and activism in China’s environmental movement. This is thanks in part to the expansion of NGOs in China. We went along to meet Tori Zwisler, the executive director of Shanghai [...]
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