Media Report
- The Washington Post reports: "In November 2014, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands on a historic agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions in both countries. The United States pledged to bring national emissions at least 26 percent below their 2005 levels, while China vowed to put a peak on its growing carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2030....Yet experts are now saying that achieving its goal is not only possible for China — the country may have already done so by the time the climate deal was made. A new paper, released Sunday night by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, argues that a changing economic and energy landscape in China will help the nation's emissions to peak by 2025 at the latest — if it didn't already happen in 2014."
- Reuters reports: "China's fishermen operating in the South China Sea give proof of the country's maritime rights and interests, a government official said on Monday, referring to ships on the frontlines of China's push to assert its claims in disputed waters....Luo Baoming, the Communist Party boss of the southern island province of Hainan, made the comments during the annual session of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC). 'If it can be said that that we want to safeguard China's rights and interest in the South China Sea, fishermen, because they have been living and surviving on fishing for the past thousand years, have been proof of our rights and interests,' Luo said....Authorities in Hainan encourage fishermen to sail to disputed areas, and the government subsidizes them in making trips to distant waters."
- The New York Times reports: "A Chinese lawyer and professor who was detained last summer during a crackdown on human rights lawyers has fled to the United States after being released from surveillance, according to an international human rights group and a statement from the lawyer. The lawyer, Chen Taihe, 45, joined his wife and children in San Leandro, Calif., on March 1....Mr. Chen's case was rare in that the authorities released a political prisoner after a lengthy detention and allowed him to leave the country. Mr. Chen has been an advocate for adopting the jury system in China, and he said he planned to continue his efforts."
Calendar
- 2016-03-06 China Seeks to Balance Stimulus and Reform
- 2016-03-04 China's 2016 Defense Budget to Slow in Line with Economy
- 2016-03-03 Five Things to Know About China’s ‘Two Sessions’
- 2016-03-02 China testing Obama as it expands its influence in Southeast Asia
- 2016-03-01 Exclusive: China to lay off five to six million workers, earmarks at least $23 billion
- 2016-02-29 China expects to lay off 1.8 million workers in coal, steel sectors
- 2016-02-28 Dodging Critics & Soothing Fears, China Meets G-20 Goals
- 2016-02-26 China talks up growth agenda at G20 amid lack of wider policy unity
- 2016-02-25 U.S., China Agree to Sanction North Korea on Nuclear Program
- 2016-02-24 China says media ignores other claimants' weaponry in South China Sea
News
- The Washington Post China vowed to peak carbon emissions by 2030. These researchers think it could already be there.
- Reuters South China Sea fishing activities proof of China's maritime rights: official
- The Wall Street Journal U.S. Disrupts China's Technology Plans
- The Washington Post The Latest: China's premier pledges support for HK leader
- Financial Times China foreign exchange data show capital outflow easing
- The New York Times Global Steel Slump With Roots in China Shakes Mining Towns
- The Wall Street Journal China's Leaders Put the Economy on Bubble Watch
- Bloomberg Business China's Foreign Reserves Slow Decline as Currency Stabilizes
- The Wall Street Journal China Shares Climb After Authorities Set Goals for Economic Growth
- The New York Times China Lets Rights Lawyer Flee to U.S. After Release
- The New York Times China's Outflows of Money Slowed in February
- TIME As China's NPC Meets, Here Are Four Danger Signs to Watch for in the Nation's Economy
- The New York Times In New Economic Plan, China Bets That Hard Choices Can Be Avoided
Commentary
- The Diplomat China's Draft Budget
- The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time China's Carbon Emissions May Have Already Peaked, Study Says
- The National Interest China's Aircraft Carriers: The Ultimate Paper Tiger?
- The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time China NPC 2016: The Reports
- Cato Institute Why You Shouldn't Fear Trade with China
- Foreign Policy: Tea Leaf Nation How China Won the War Against Western Media
- Reuters China's growth fixation will scupper other goals
- The New York Times: Sinosphere Year After Detentions, Chinese Feminists Mark Setbacks and Progress