Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'editorial'

A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...

China's Dwindling Resource

By Philip Bowring (International Herald Tribune Op-Ed Contributor)  | The New York TimesJune 03, 2010 A strike at Honda's plant at Foshan in southern China. Suicides and labor unrest at the giant Foxconn factory not far away in Shenzhen. Everywhere in...

While China Stands By

Editorial | The New York TimesMay 27, 2010 There is only one country with any chance of getting through to North Korea. That is China, the North's major supplier of aid, food and oil. As tensions on the Korean Peninsula...

The Pajama Game Closes in Shanghai

By Gao Yubing - Op-Ed Contributor - The New York TimesMay 16, 2010 ONE hundred thousand fireworks lighted the sky over Shanghai on April 30, marking the grand opening of the 2010 World Expo. For the city's many pajama wearers,...

Rift Grows as U.S. and China Seek Differing Goals

By Edward Wong | The New York TimesFebruary 20, 2010 When President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in the White House on Thursday, he was following a tradition that all recent American presidents had dutifully honored. Yet, to some...

Obama to Meet Dalai Lama Despite Chinese Warning

By REUTERS | The New York TimesFebruary 18, 2010 President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday despite China's warning that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained ties....

President Obama, Push Back on China

By WEI JINGSHENG - Op-Ed Contributor - The New York TimesDecember 30, 2009 Last week, a moderate reformist in China, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Chinese government for the mere act of organizing and...

China, Cambodia and the Uighurs

A New York Times EditorialDecember 22, 2009 Just more than a year ago, Cambodia was praised by the United Nations for its work on behalf of refugees. It was one of only two nations in Southeast Asia to sign the...

Decision time for China...

Gulf Daily News - The Voice of BahrainOctober 07, 2009 Sixty years ago, his army victorious, Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Tiananmen Square and announced a new era for China after a terrible civil war...

China Terrorizes Tibet

The New York Times EditorialMarch 18, 2009 It was impossible not to notice that the United States removed China from its list of top 10 human rights violators just as the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years erupted in Tibet....

As Rome Burns, China Won't Talk

By John Pomfret | The Washington Post | NewsweekDecember 01, 2008 So the global economy is in meltdown, Europe and China are both facing the prospect of a seriously ugly downturn. They'd scheduled a summit for this week. You'd think...

Tibetan Monks Still Held in Qinghai

By Radio Free Asia August 28, 2008 Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai. Hundreds of Tibetan monks detained after widespread protests against Chinese rule earlier this year were deported from the...

A columnist's parting thoughts on China

By Howard W. French | International Herald Tribune | The New York TimesJuly 31, 2008 SHANGHAI: This is it for me, folks. I'm finished. Done, meaning this is the last of the regularly scheduled columns readers will see from me...

Spotlight on China, darkness in Tibet

By Dan Southerland | The Christian Science Monitor June 11, 2008 China's media covered the country's earthquake tragedy more openly than any past disaster. But the Chinese government still maintains a blackout over news from Tibet, which experienced its biggest...

China's multiple victims include its own public

By Howard W. French | International Herald Tribune April 10, 2008 I had hardly finished writing a news article on repression in Xinjiang last week when word reached me of the violent suppression of yet another protest by Tibetan monks...

China Terrorizes Tibet

A New York Times Editorial March 18, 2008 It was impossible not to notice that the United States removed China from its list of top 10 human rights violators just as the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years erupted in...

The F.D.A. in Crisis: Another Danger Made in China

Editorial | The New York TimesFebruary 03, 2008 The F.D.A. -- and American consumers -- got another warning last week about the need for vigilant monitoring of imported drugs from the developing world, especially from China. The contamination of a...

Yahoo Betrays Free Speech

The New York Times | EditorialDecember 2nd, 2007 For a company that ostensibly believes in the Internet's liberating power, Yahoo has a gallingly backward understanding of the value of free expression. The company helped Beijing's state police uncover the Internet...