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PRC News: 2004-05-12

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Winds of Change.NET Regional Briefings run on Tuesdays & Wednesdays, and sometimes Fridays too. Today's Regional Briefing focuses on China, courtesy of Adam Morris in Tianjin.

Today's Topics Include: Chinese labour standards as a U.S. political issue; China on Iraq; China & North Korea; Stories from Taiwan; Talkleft on Shanghai; Jokes & drink names in Chinese; Asians' view of USA stems more from local politics than policy issues.

INTERNATIONAL

  • Kerry is criticizing Bush for not doing enough on China, and the AFL-CIO's petition (which Bush rejected) was the center of it all. The unprecedented appeal that argues that China's labor standards harm international trade undergoes severe criticism by a scholar/blogger who was quoted in the petition itself. Stephen Frost has a followup here.
  • Beijing and Pyongyang's relationship seems to be Beijing heavy lately, as they've rejected requests by Kim Jong-il for high-tech jet planes.
  • A Better Tomorrow rounds up some of recent stories floating around Taiwan that you probably never heard on CNN.

OTHER

  • Conrad the Gweilo also does a good job at criticizing a Talk Left comment on Shanghai.
  • Although this isn't about China specifically, there's a very interesting article on how Asians' view on America depends more on local politics and a country's self-esteem than policy issues.

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5 Comments

This site is very difficult to read on my Mac (with Microsoft Explorer). There is no line wrapping so every paragraph is written on a single line.

(Yes, I realize this is not the place to post a technical comment.)

I'm skeptical of the Asian Labour News criticism. It sounds very much like a case of "but we're not chaining them to their lasts any more. We're using a very soft, comfortable rope".

> Conrad the Gweilo also does a good job at
> criticizing a Talk Left comment on Shanghai.

Where does he do this? I couldn't find any comment by him on TalkLeft itself, and there's no other link in that section.

Thank you for the link to A Better Tomorrow. I lived in Taiwan for 5 years and it is really funny.

Mike wrote: "I'm skeptical of the Asian Labour News criticism. It sounds very much like a case of "but we're not chaining them to their lasts any more. We're using a very soft, comfortable rope"."

Hi Mike. Stephen here from Asian Labour News. What do you mean by "chaining them to their lasts any more"? I had a number of criticisms of the AFL-CIO petition, but I'm not clear to which one(s) you're referring.

Kind regards

Stephen

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