Archiv April 2005
16.4.2005 Brilliance China to make own-brand vehicles in Egypt Production of the two-liter car will begin at the end of August at a plant owned by Bavarian Auto with components and spare parts shipped from China, the China Daily said. Quelle: Standard/AFP.
16.4.2005 "There was clearly a brutal and unacceptable invasion of the European market and of the American market by Chinese textiles, beyond what is acceptable within the framework of free trade," Chirac said. EU to apply 'safety clauses' on China textiles. Quelle: China Daily/AFP.
16.4.2005 US warns citizens as mainland cities brace for more protests Quelle: Standard/Reuters.
15.4.2005 Reuters: China arrests 15 in AIDS blood donor scandal.
15.4.2005 China Pushing and Scripting Japan Protests Von Joseph Kahn (NYT). "It was partly a real protest and partly a political show," Mr. Sun said in an interview this week. "I felt a little like a puppet."
15.4.2005 EU May Start Action on Chinese Textiles April 25. Quelle: Reuters.
14.4.2005 Schlagzeile der China Daily: Schroeder to Japan: Be self-critical of history
14.4.2005 Greenpeace wirft China illegalen Anbau von "Genreis" vor Von Johnny Erling, Peking (Link im Kasten links).
14.4.2005 Chinese village protest turns into riot of thousands Von Jonathan Watts (The Guardian). ... two protesters were said to have been killed when officials tried to disperse 200 elderly women who had kept a two-week vigil outside a chemical factory that they blamed for ruined crops and deformities in new-born babies... (Bei Dongyang, Zhejiang).
13.4.2005 18 more foreigners take up Shanghai residency Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications president Peter Borger is one of those receiving his permanent residency permit. ...we're looking for people who have invested significantly in Shanghai, who are high-ranking leaders of their companies and who bring specific useful skills... Quelle: Standard/AFP. Update: Notiz dazu von Johnny Erling (15.4.2005).
12.4.2005 Taiwan bans Chinese Journalists Taiwanese officials have ordered journalists from two of mainland China's largest official media groups to stop working on the island. Quelle: BBC.
12.4.2005 Not far into a March 2 Citibank report on container shipping, analyst Charles De Trenck makes a rock-solid case that more than 25 percent of all merchandise exports shipped to the United States are destined for Wal-Mart alone... Mark Simon im Hongkonger Standard über die Nachfragemacht des US-Einzelhandels und die chinesische Wirtschaftsstruktur. ...In a highly competitive market, where a factory in Guangzhou has to battle with a factory in Shanghai, rather than a once high-cost factory in the United States, the margin pressure placed by foreign retailers falls on the factory owners, workers, and in the end, China. To fight this margin squeeze, investment is an exporter's only tool...
11.4.2005 Johnny Erling (Peking) schreibt in der Welt Bericht und Kommentar zu den antijapanischen Ausschreitungen (Link siehe Kasten links). Update: China verhängt Nachrichtensperre (Kurier, Wien), Der grosse Drache speit Feuer (Handelsblatt), China macht Japan für antijapanische Proteste verantwortlich (Frankfurter Rundschau).
11.4.2005 Aktualisiert: Liste der Berichte der Xinhua-Agentur, Berlin.
10.4.2005 Antijapanische Demonstrationen in Peking. Quelle: CNN.
9.4.2005 Die Magazinrundschau des Perlentaucher bringt Informationen zur chinesischen Einwandererszene in Ungarn. Leider braucht man für den wichtigen verlinkten Aufsatz ungarische Sprachkenntnisse. Hier ältere Beiträge von Pal Nyiri: 1999, 2000(?), 2003(?), 2003(?); zum Thema vgl. 2002. 2004, 2005.
9.4.2005 UNESCO vergibt Preis an den kritischen Journalisten Chen Yizhong. Quelle (UNESCO-Website)
9.4.2005 Shanghai has enacted a new rule requiring home owners to pay off their mortgages before selling property, the boldest measure yet in new efforts to cool surging real estate prices... Shanghaier Versuche, die Immobilien-Blase in den Griff zu bekommen beschreibt Elaine Kurtenbach (AP) im Hongkonger Standard.
9.4.2005 The Laogai Research Foundation (LRF) is pleased to announce the addition of the word "laogai" into the renowned German dictionary Duden... Quelle
8.4.2005 Nachtrag: ... Our correspondents used to be in Beijing all the time. But now they travel much more. In the past the party congress is the center of journalism, but today it is no longer the center for our reporters. We are more interested in the environment, the students, the business, the corruption and all sorts of different issues. The coverage of China is becoming more and more complex... If I were a young journalist today, figuring out where I should go to make my career, I would go to China. Der Washington- Korrespondent der People's Daily, Yong Tang, interviewte den Managing Editor der Washington Post, Philip Bennett (10.3.2005).
8.4.2005 Zu früh für Kinsey: Sex survey on campus
gets cold shoulder The survey, sponsored 
by the Shanghai Municipal
Committee of Population and Family Planning, aims to get accurate information
on students'sexual health, behaviors and levels of awareness to better inform
education initiatives ... some universities refused to distribute the
questionnaires among students after seeing phrases like “premarital sex”
and “contraception.” Quelle:
Xinhuanet. (Bild: 22catcher)
8.4.2005 China discovers 51,851 illegal trademark cases in 2004. Quelle: Xinhuanet.
8.4.2005 An underground tourist attraction for foreigners is little known among Beijing locals. Known as Beijing Underground City, and nicknamed the underground Great Wall, the attraction is a series of tunnels that were built as air-raid shelters in the late 1960s. Quelle: China Daily.
8.4.2005 Jährlich über 100.000 Verkehrstote - nach einem Experten der Pekinger Polizei hält China hier seit Jahren den Weltrekord. Quelle: Xinhuanet.
8.4.2005 Nature blamed for Beijing's bad air quality By Sun Xiaohua (China Daily). The municipal environmental protection bureau said that current weather conditions meant the city's pollution was not being dispersed...
7.4.2005 Nachtrag: Wie China den Westen das Fürchten lehrt Untertitel: Asiens Wirtschaftsmacht diktiert die Regeln der Weltwirtschaft. Sie entwickelt sich vom Lehrling zum Lehrmeister der Globalisierung Britta Bode besprach in der Welt am Sonntag vom 13.2.2005 Frank Sierens Buch "Der China Code". "Die Planwirtschaftler schlagen die Marktwirtschaftler mit den eigenen Mitteln", schreibt Sieren, "denn selbst wenn das Chinageschäft nur eine schwarze Null schreibt, wovon die meisten weit entfernt sind, werden die Unternehmen an den internationalen Börsen für ihren Umsatz und Weltmarktanteil mit steigenden Kursen belohnt." ... Das System ist so einfach wie effizient. Ausländische Hersteller dürfen in China nur in Gemeinschaftsunternehmen produzieren, in denen die Chinesen die Mehrheit haben. Deren große Staatsunternehmen arbeiten allerdings mit gleich mehreren, zudem untereinander konkurrierenden Partnern aus dem Westen zusammen, die sie dann gegeneinander ausspielen. Sie schöpfen das technologische Wissen ab und kopieren...
6.4.2005 In einem ZEIT-Interview äussert sich Joschka Fischer auch kurz zum Thema China: "Wir waren eigentlich nach den Wahlen in Taiwan sehr hoffnungsvoll. Auch die Eröffnung der direkten Flugverbindung war ein positives Signal. Die Dinge haben sich bis zu diesem Taiwan-Gesetz eher in eine positive Richtung entwickelt..."
6.4.2005 "The Australian mining company BHP Billiton said Friday that the United States Defense Department was blocking it from using an advanced mapping technology to search for mineral deposits in China", schreibt Wayne Arnold in der NYT. "... one BHP Billiton executive called Falcon 'the holy grail of the exploration industry,' enabling it to survey previously inaccessible areas..."
6.4.2005 Makeover for a Chinese Harbor's Landmark Keith Bradsher in der NYT* über den gepanten Umbau des Hongkonger Peak Towers. "I've always been absolutely stunned there isn't any Chinese food on the Peak..."
5.4.2005 Antijapanische Demonstrationen: Während eine Protestes gegen eine mögliche Aufnahme Japans in den UN-Sicherheitsrat gingen in Chengdu Schaufenster eines Geschäfts der japanischen Kette Ito Yokado ("7-11") zu Bruch. Jetzt liefe wieder "business as usual", meldet der Hongkonger Standard (AFP/Bloomberg).
5.4.2005 Negotiations to save MG Rover are on a knife-edge this weekend amid fears from its potential Chinese partner that it could be liable to fund a £400 million pension 'black hole' if the UK car-maker goes bust. Quelle: The Observer.
4.4.2005 Nach elf Jahren Gefängnis wird der "Mörder" She
Xianglin entlassen. Das angebliche Opfer, seine Frau, war wieder aufgetaucht. 
Hier
zeigt She seine verstümmelte Hand. Er behauptet, im Gefängnis misshandelt
worden zu sein und will seine Verfolger verklagen. Quelle:
China Daily Update: Vgl.
Artikel von Johnny Erling vom 5.4. (Link im Kasten links).
4.4.2005 To the surprise of many, China's shares bounced back on April Fool's Day, April 1, after hitting a six-year-low just the day before... Had it not been for the special timing, domestic shareholders would be more than glad to see this rebound... Nowadays, the country's stock markets are plagued by many complex and interlocking problems ranging from listed companies' corporate scandals, malpractice by brokerage firms and loose regulations by the securities watchdog. Among them, the selling off of State shares is a basic problem... Quelle: China Daily
3.4.2005 Hong Kong arts center is battleground for architects Von Mark McCord (Hongkong, AFP). Ein AFP-Artikel vom 16.1.2005 sprach noch von Widerständen gegen das Projekt: A huge multi-billion dollar arts hub planned for Hong Kong's famed harbourside is in doubt as public opinion gathers against it and influential businessmen and politicians declare the proposal flawed.
2.4.2005 The story of an ordinary Chinese soldier taken prisoner by the Americans during the Korean War (1950-53), War Trash is likely to upset official views of history in China, South Korea, and the United States, Jin told RFA’s Mandarin service. Interview mit Ha Jin zu seinem neuen Buch War Trash, das im Herbst bei dtv Premium in deutscher Übersetzung erscheinen wird.
2.4.2005 China's college students permitted to get married meldet die China Daily.
2.4.2005 Taiwan's prizefighters slug it out as China raises the stakes Simon Tisdall in Taipei: "...Taiwan's warring politicians may be their own worst enemies" (The Guardian).
1.4.2005 Harsh reality of China's fantasy craze Online games blamed for thefts, suicides and murders Von Jonathan Watts (The Guardian). When Qiu Chengwei reported the theft of his "dragon sabre" he was laughed out of the police station. So the 41-year-old online games player decided to take matters into his own hands...