China to tax the biggest polluters

CHINA will hit "outdated" highly polluting industry with a big electricity price surcharge as part of a push to dramatically slow the growth of the country's greenhouse emissions over the next five years, a senior Chinese official has said.

China accuses Dalai Lama of deception

China has said that the Dalai Lama's announcement that he will give up his political role is a trick.

McCain warns Australia over rise of China

FORMER presidential candidate John McCain has declared that Australia and the US should ensure that an increasingly assertive China observe basic principles such as "freedom of the seas".

China vision brings victory to the party

IN THIS week's exhilarating shares race, David Potts - winner of battle to end all battles last week - is again in front, with another healthy handful of resources and energy companies. He definitely believes the China story.

China hails humble and happy Li Na

CHINESE media yesterday praised Li Na for blazing a trail as the first Asian woman to reach a grand slam final, despite her three-set defeat in the Australian Open final.

Obama outlines plans to rebuff China

THE world witnessed an extraordinary moment yesterday when a US President felt compelled to remind his country that America's economy was still the world's biggest.

Paper trail

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

Green China set to dominate renewable energy boom

Penny Wong could learn much from China's policies, writes Mathew Murphy.

Spectre Of 50m Job Losses Looms In China

THE economic crisis is set to hit workers harder in China than any other major economy, with a leading scholar predicting 50 million Chinese people could be out of work this year.

China's Quake Mums Given Green Light For More Babies

HUNDREDS of women who lost their only child in last year's earthquake are pregnant again after receiving a special exemption to the nation's strict population controls.

Nervous China Tightens Grip On Internet

CHINA'S Communist Party has significantly tightened propaganda controls by shutting down the country's most vibrant and influential intellectual discussion platform.

China Tightens Web, Fearing Slowdown And Tiananmen Anniversary

CHINA'S Communist Party has significantly tightened propaganda controls by shutting down the country's most vibrant and influential intellectual discussion platform.

China Braces For A Turbulent 2009

Economic instability is likely to become the greatest challenge to China's ruling communists.

A Specific Solution That Worked

AS THE Rudd Government faces more asylum seekers arriving by boat, the former Liberal minister Fred Chaney has declared the Fraser government's handling of the Indo-China refugee crisis 30 years ago to be "its finest hour".

The Diplomacy Of The Fig Leaf

IT IS regrettable, and worrying, that the annual China-Australia dialogue on human rights issues has been allowed to slip off the diplomatic calendar in this, the Rudd Government's first full year in office. True, Kevin Rudd earned credit for publicly raising human rights issues during his visit to Beijing in April. He was also reported to have stated Australia's concerns about religious and internet freedom, and civil rights in Tibet, to China's Premier, Wen Jiabao, in August. Both Mr Rudd and ...

Cultural Challenge

THE Hunter will be in a position to forge more links with China with plans to establish a Confucius Institute at the University of Newcastle.

Leaders Skip China Rights Talks

THE Federal Government is yet to hold its first human rights dialogue with China after it was skipped this year for the first time since the talks became an annual event 11 years ago.

Chinese Pandas Move To Taiwan As Rivals Learn To Bear It

YEARS of stalled "panda politics" between China and Taiwan was overcome with the arrival on the mainland yesterday of a plane to take a pair of panda cubs to their new home at Taipei Zoo today.

Mao's Memory Remains In Vogue, Even If His Policies Are History

IT MIGHT seem to the outside world that China has spent the past three decades trying to get away from Mao Zedong. In fact the county still has a soft spot for the romantic dictator.

Wuhan Set To Buy Half Of Sa Iron Ore Project

CHINA'S steel industry has swooped again on an Australian magnetite (iron ore) project, prompted in part by the collapse in local equity values and the increased purchasing power of the yuan.