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China cuts business visas for Olympics
Beijing has issued new restrictions on business visas for the next two months as the government steps up its campaign to keep out unwelcome foreigners at next month’s games
Russia and China settle border spat
Moscow and Beijing have finalised a protocol, formally demarcating their 4,300km international border – a significant step towards friendship between the two large military powers
Analysis: Stirrings in the suburbs: China’s middle class finds its voice
In the first of a series on social change in the country, the growing political engagement among entrepreneurial and educated Chinese is examined
Taiwan tour guides told to shun politics
Guides who will take up to 3,000 Chinese citizens a day on excursions around Taiwan under a new tourism programme have been trained to avoid politics
Analysis: China’s war on nature
The environmental and social strains of rapid growth are generating conflicts that Beijing may struggle to keep off the internet – yet the medium is proving as suited to nationalism as it is to dissent
China and India hold out on emission targets
Neither Beijing nor Delhi give any ground on setting targets for emissions cuts by 2050, reiterating their view it is the responsibility of rich nations to clear up their own mess
Philip Gordon: Beijing must bare its teeth
China’s reluctance to forgo juicy economic and energy deals with Tehran is based on simple, almost syllogistic logic, writes Philip Gordon
China and India knock on G8’s door
To many observers, a club of the world’s leading nations is starting to look hollow without China, the fourth-largest economy in dollar terms, according to the World Bank
Tibetans cast doubt on China’s sincerity
Tibetan envoys accused China of failing to take any ‘tangible steps’ in last week’s talks between the sides and questioned whether the negotiations had served any purpose
Obstacles on road to Beijing-Taipei concord
Big problems will come with the Olympics. Chinese scholars have proposed that the Chinese and Taiwanese teams enter the stadium together at the opening ceremony
