China Will Build the Tallest Building In the World in Just 90 Days. China abroad: Sun Tzu and the art of soft power. Protect And Attack: Lenovo's New Strategy. Chinese tourists: A new Grand Tour. La Chine en Côte d’Ivoire : le double jeu. DEPUIS les résultats promulgués par la Commission électorale indépendante (CEI) d’une part, et le Conseil constitutionnel d’autre part, la crise post-électorale ivoirienne permet également d’analyser les « jeux » et prises de positions diplomatiques des principales puissances.
En cela, la Chine, deuxième économie mondiale, est devenue un acteur incontournable à Abidjan. Au-delà de la crise endogène (géo)politique ivoirienne, où le militaire à remplacé la négociation politique depuis les mois de février-mars 2011, peu d’articles proposent une analyse des acteurs internationaux impliqués directement ou indirectement dans ce conflit a priori ivoiro-ivoirien. Début avril 2011, il aurait déjà fait entre 500 et 900 morts, selon les sources. Si les arguments des principales puissances et des organisations internationales sont largement repris par les médias occidentaux, les positions des Etats dits « pro-Gbagbo » semblent plus confuses, complexes et finalement moins médiatisées.
Plus . . . . Ai Weiwei. What better symbol of the Chinese Colossus’ feet of clay than the baseless accusations against a lone artist, except possibly the inconvenient fact that the arrested artist was a co-designer of the Bird Nest Stadium, the centerpiece of the Beijing Olympics? On 4th April, the artist Ai Weiwei was arrested by the Chinese government as he tried to board a plane out of Beijing. The arrest was unfortunate, but not altogether shocking. He may be the country’s most famous living artist, but Ai Weiwei had been the proverbial thorn in the Chinese government’s side for more than two decades. He went on a hunger strike after the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown; when he returned home from exile in New York, where he studied painting and photography, one of his first acts was to take a photo of his wife lifting her skirt and exposing her underwear on the Tiananmen Square.
(Click here to sign a petition to free Ai Weiwei, which has attracted over 90,000 signatures. Like this: Like Loading... Wang Keqin and China's revolution in investigative journalism. To the usual journalistic armoury (famously, ratlike cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability), Wang Keqin has added an extra element: the small, red-smudged, battered metal tin that he carries to each interview. Inside is a sponge soaked in scarlet ink. Like a detective, the 45-year-old reporter compiles witness statements. Then he secures fingerprints at the bottom to confirm agreement. It is a mark of the thoroughness that has made him China's best-known investigative journalist, breaking a string of stories that have earned him renown, but also death threats from criminals and wrath from officials.
"The other side is usually much stronger. You have to make the evidence iron-cast," he said, tapping the tin. That is not always enough. It is the latest case to highlight the zeal of China's watchdog journalists – and the challenges facing them. "I had problems with black society [gangs], and problems with red society [officials]," Wang said. Contemporary art in China: Chinese checkers. China's Elite Are Privately Talking About A Revolution. Wiki commons Tsinghua University Professor Patrick Chovanec alludes in his latest blog post to three paragraphs in the FT that are "too explosive to reprint in a blog authored in China. " Here's the part he's talking about: In private conversations, many of the people who supposedly make up the ruling elite of China express serious misgivings about the direction and future stability of the country, while admitting that they feel largely powerless to affect meaningful change.
“There is a sense that we are approaching an inevitable breaking point, when the pressures in society will boil over and consume the rulers,” says one Chinese banker with close ties to a number of powerful political families. “Almost all of the elements are in place for an uprising like we saw in 1989 – corruption is worse today than it was then, people feel they can’t get ahead without political connections, the wealth gap is much bigger and growing and there has been virtually no political reform at all.