Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis http://www.indepthnews.net/ NEW DELHI (IDN) – Much has been written about Bo Xilai, the charismatic party secretary of the southwestern city of Chongqing who was sacked from the 25-member Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC). And, much more is likely to be written in the [...]
Chinese Dissident Chen Seeks U.S. Exile Deal
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents * DOHA, May 3, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he wants to leave for the U.S. rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the U.S. embassy in Beijing and defuse an [...]
China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development
January 21, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary Iosif Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, [...]
CHINA: Dragon Drags the World In
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Antoaneta Becker LONDON, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) – Chinese fengshui masters have been busy advising edgy followers how to optimise their luck in the auspicious but volatile Year of the Dragon, which according to the lunar calendar begins on Jan.23. In the West though, Chinese superstitions about [...]
OPENING-UP OF MYANMAR
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2,2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar— the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955— indicated the growing self-confidence of President Thein Sein that the cautious policy of domestic reforms and external opening-up [...]
CHINA: Enforced Disappearances on the Rise
December 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emily-Anne Owen BEIJING, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) – China is experiencing the worst crackdown since 1989 with a rising number of enforced disappearances of activists, a prominent Chinese dissident now living in exile has stated. Liao Yiwu, a former Chinese political prisoner and eminent author most well [...]
China to Embrace Fracking In an Effort to Ramp up Energy Production
December 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of http://oilprice.com China is leaving no shale deposit unturned in its effort to develop indigenous energy resources. On 24 November China’s Ministry of Land and Resources geological exploration department head Peng Qiming said during a press conference that China’s combined oil and natural gas output, 280 [...]
The Tale of Two Cleaned Up Asian Cities
November 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsFeature DALIAN (IDN) – The partner cities of Dalian in Northern China and Kitakyushu in Western Japan have distinguished themselves as dedicated proponents of pollution control and clean environment. Back in the 1960s and 1970s the two cities were severely polluted by heavy industry [...]
China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released its 2011 Annual Report to Congress
November 16, 2011 By
Press Release: Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) This morning, the Congressionally created, bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released its 2011 Annual Report to Congress. Said Scott Paul, Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM): “This morning’s annual report from the USCC is the latest wake-up call for Washington regarding China’s [...]
CHINA: Only Business Occupies Shanghai
November 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Antoaneta Becker SHANGHAI, Nov 16, 2011 (IPS) – As China’s financial centre and a pinnacle of domestic wealth, Shanghai could have been in the forefront of a home-grown movement against income disparity of the like sweeping New York’s Wall Street and London’s City. Instead it remains a [...]
