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China

From tainted exports to exchange rates, climate change to one-child policies, the Middle Kingdom often finds itself at the center of controversy

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July 2007
- Tainted Imports Originate All Over the World
  
  New York Times | Jul 12, 07 10:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Contaminated Chinese seafood is the latest high-profile export turning American consumers off their feed, but they might want to save some caution for Dominican produce and Danish candy, FDA stats suggest. Inspectors stopped more food shipments from India and Mexico than from China in the past year, the Times reports, and the flood of imports is overtaxing the agency's enforcement system. More »
- China's Surplus Soars to $26.9B
  
  Bloomberg | Jul 10, 07 2:59 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China's trade surplus surged to a record $26.9B in June, an 87% increase since last year. Economists attribute the trade gap to China's significantly—as much as 40%—underpriced currency, the yuan, reports Bloomberg. Half of China's surplus is with the US, which recently began preparing legislation to sanction countries that deliberately use a weakened currency to gain an unfair advantage. More »
- China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Czar
  
  New York Times | Jul 10, 07 11:44 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China carried out a swift death sentence against the former head of its food and drug administration today, in an apparent reaction to concerns about the safety of its exports. Zheng Xiaoyu was killed just over 2 weeks after the supreme court rejected his appeal on a May conviction for accepting bribes while head of the watchdog government arm. More »
- China Opens Giant Public Loo
  
  Associated Press | Jul 7, 07 4:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Time for tourists to ditch the Great Wall and head for the city of Chongqing in southwest China, which recently opened a startling new attraction: a sprawling public restroom. The free facilities lie behind an Egyptian facade that conceals 1,000 toilets spread over four stories and almost 33,000 square feet. "We are spreading toilet culture," one official tells the AP. More »
- Chinese Goods Flunk Gov't Safety Tests
  
  Bloomberg | Jul 4, 07 3:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Chinese government acknowledged today what people around the world suspected—many products manufactured by the world's largest exporter of consumer goods are unsafe. One-fifth of its manufactured wares fail to meet government safety standards, a regulatory agency said in a posting on its website. Despite the findings, which did not cover exports, spokesmen continue to tout Chinese product safety. More »
- Chrysler Plunges Into China Trade
  
  MarketWatch | Jul 4, 07 12:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In a cost-cutting move, Chrysler will introduce cars produced by China's biggest automaker to the US market by late 2009. Chrysler and Chery staged a signing ceremony today in Beijing to allay fears about the American auto giant's new ownership not backing the deal, MarketWatch reports. The first vehicles will hit Latin American and Eastern European markets within a year. More »
- Thousands March for Democracy in Hong Kong
  
  Times (UK) | Jul 1, 07 1:03 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hong Kong observed the 10th anniversary of the handover to China today as tens of thousands took to the streets for the now-traditional annual pro-democracy rally. Beijing appears no more amenable to universal suffrage, however—Hu Jintao was in town to swear in the territory's new chief executive and his government, but the Chinese president departed before the march began. More »
June 2007
- Hong Kong Poised to Become Asia's Big Apple
  
  Newsweek | Jun 30, 07 7:12 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hong Kong is in decline as Asia's premier shipping hub, but the dip in dockyard activity is nothing to fret over, Newsweek reports. The city is on the brink of becoming one of the world's financial capitals—on par with London and New York. Economic shifts are reconfiguring the political landscape as well: a rising middle class is clamoring for cleaner air and universal suffrage. More »
- Chinese PR Combats Export Rap
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 30, 07 11:05 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China is on a public relations blitz to keep its exports solvent after nonstop coverage of unsafe toothpaste, fish and even tires in the US, China's largest customer, last week. Beijing broke its pattern of protest over the coverage, shutting down 180 offending factories and promising consumers that tainted food represents a fraction of US imports from China. More »
- China Fuels Boom in Backyard Fireworks
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 29, 07 3:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Inexpensive fireworks imported from China have led to a resurgence in do-it-yourself, backyard fireworks displays in the US, even as public shows have been scaled back due to post 9/11 regulations. Fireworks sales are soaring in this country, with revenue up to $900M last year, reports the Wall Street Journal . At the same time, injury rates have apparently declined. More »
- Chinese Use Texting to Keep Protest Alive
  
  Washington Post | Jun 28, 07 12:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Chinese activists used text messages and blog posts to organize and publicize a huge protest against the construction of a chemical plant, demonstrating continuing ingenuity in skirting government strictures against dissent in the media. Construction of the plant in the coastal town of Xiamen was put on hold following a 10,000-person demonstration, the Washington Post reports. More »
- China Closes 180 Food Plants
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 28, 07 3:51 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Chinese government has shut down 180 food manufacturing plants for racking up a whopping 23,000 violations in the last six months, most of them for using chemicals and industrial materials as food fillers to cut costs. Almost all were small and unlicensed, making it unlikely their products, worth some $26 million, reached international markets. More »
- FBI Recovers 'Good Earth' Manuscript
  
  Associated Press | Jun 27, 07 7:03 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" has turned up at a Philadelphia auction house, having gone missing in 1966. The FBI was called in after the daughter of one of the author's secretaries tried to put it for sale, the AP reports. Buck died in1973, believing the 400-page manuscript of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel had been stolen. More »
- China Shutters Scores of Food Factories
  
  Associated Press | Jun 27, 07 12:49 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Chinese government has closed 180 factories that were using dangerous and illegal ingredients, such as formaldehyde, in food products. The relatively large number of plants casts serious doubt on Beijing's insistence that the recent rash of tainted products originated with a small number of sources, the AP reports: A government official said the shutdowns were "not isolated cases." More »
- China Raises Profile in Africa
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Jun 27, 07 9:28 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China is increasing the number of UN peackekeepers it sends to Africa and raising its profile on the continent, creating a kind of "peace corps" to address problems from job shortages to health care, the Christian Science Monitor reports. China, itself a developing nation, appears determined to both do good and do well in large and small ways. More »
- Chinese Kids Tire of Communism
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jun 26, 07 11:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Chinese kids are bored stiff with the Communist philosophy still force-fed in their university system. Classes in Marxism have been mandatory since Mao, but cell-phone-weilding students entranced by China's burgeoning capitalist infrastructure are having trouble relating. "It's something like fiction," one student says of the readings in Das Kapital. More »
- Murdoch Kowtows to China
  
  New York Times | Jun 26, 07 8:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Rupert Murdoch's imperial ambitions in China have been marked by relentless cozying to its communist regime—motivated by equal parts opportunism and sinophilia—the Times reports. Murdoch's China outlets have toed the party line energetically, and the mogul, whose wife is a high-powered mainlander, has even personally lashed the Dalai Lama. More »
- Internet Users Slam Chinese Censorship
  
  Reuters | Jun 20, 07 4:32 PM CDT