ChinaEncounters

Hangzhou Bay Bridge to Open

Link: Hangzhou Bay Bridge to Open.

Good intro by Wang Jianshou to China's advancing civil engineering.

Shanghaiist Sunday Show: Will Chinese cars take over the world next?

Link: Shanghaiist: Shanghaiist Sunday Show: Will Chinese cars take over the world next?.

This is the first of four videos posted on the site.

The Sky Isn't Falling in China

Link: Zakaria: The Sky Isn't Falling in China - Newsweek International Editions - MSNBC.com.

The day after the Shanghai stock market fell, we saw again all the same warnings about the Chinese system and the odds of its collapse.

By Fareed Zakaria

Newsweek

Democracy Is A Good Thing

This essay was excerpted from the foreword to the book of the same name and published in Beijing Daily News on October 23, 2006. This is a translation.  Link: EastSouthWestNorth: Democracy Is A Good Thing.

It has sparked a whole lot of speculation as to what changes are really heralded. eg here on OpenDemocracy.net.   China's Contradictory Signals

The Chinese Century

I will comment on this TIME article soon.

Link: The Chinese Century -- Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007 TIME.

Divide and Rule

Comment on th same subject as the post below.    TIMEasia Magazine: Divide and Rule.

see the continuation for the article.

and the Government response:  "Beijing's Helping Hand"

the text in the lower part of the continuation page.

Seeds of Fury

This is the critical issue for China. TIMEasia Magazine: Seeds of Fury.

But what is the answer. Some of us spent a week in summer 2005 in a peasant farming community in a poor area of China. The conditions were tough. My pictures will be here by end of the weekend. I have been a bit slow on posting them but feel I need to. The issues are real, but what is the answer? 

I intend to comment a little after thinking and reading more. But for now please read the Time article on the Time page or copied on the continuation of this page.

Why we do what we do!!

A very challenging article in TIme Magazine this week.  The key phrase so far as we are concerend is in the third paragraph:  "Will the U.S. come to think of China as a friend or a foe?"    That is why we do what we do - make friends.

Monday, Jun. 20, 2005
Small World, Big Stakes
The U.S. and China are intimately linked--for better or worse. Can we make room for each other?
By MICHAEL ELLIOTT