Torbjørn Færøvik's Blog, page 1492

- En belastning for forholdet til USA

Avsløringene om at amerikanske  myndigheter spionerer på digitale medier kan bli en belastning for forholdet mellom USA og Kina, skriver den kinesiske avisen China Daily. Les mer

Three Gorges leads China's dam growth

A decade after China began filling the world's largest dam - The Three Gorges - concerns about the project's environmental and human cost endure even as the country prepares a huge hydropower expansion. More than 1.2 million people were displaced as the waters in the monumental dam submerged scores of towns and communities. Read more

Chen Guangcheng – the brave Chinese activist who David Cameron refused to meet

How did a blind Chinese dissident scale the walls of his house while under house arrest, evade government surveillance, travel hundreds of miles to Beijing, seek asylum in the American embassy and in the process shine attention on a horror the world has grown used to? Last week I met up with him in London.
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Chinese spaceship blasts off from Gobi Desert

A Chinese spaceship blasted off Tuesday from a launch center in the Gobi Desert,
carrying three astronauts on what is expected to be the Asian giant's longest
crewed mission yet.
Footage broadcast by state broadcaster CCTV showed the craft lift off from the
Gobi's flat expanse and arrow into the empty blue sky. Read more
  Super secret base fuels China's space ambitions

Nowhere to turn for China's Uyghurs

For years, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China's arid
northwest has been the setting of clashes with the central government and ethnic
violence between Muslim Uyghurs and Han Chinese. In fact, critics say the
government has used anti-terrorism legislation and other means to justify major
violations of the human rights of Uyghur people, a Turkic-speaking minority
group.

South China Sea row risks wider clashes

From January through May, the South China Sea dispute continued to trend in a
negative direction. Consistent with the pattern of developments over the past
several years, the dispute continued to be characterized by an action-reaction
dynamic in which attempts by one or other of the claimants led to protests and countermoves from the other claimants. Read more

Liu Xiaobo's Brother-in-Law Gets 11 Years on Fraud Charge

Authorities in the Chinese capital have handed a lengthy jail term to the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo for "fraud," his lawyer said on Monday. Liu Hui, 43, was sentenced to 11 year's imprisonment, two years' deprivation of political rights, and a 10,000 yuan (U.S.$1,630) fine in connection with a property dispute by the Huairou District People's Court, in a

China’s Economic Empire

THE combination of a strong, rising China and economic stagnation in Europe and America is making the West increasingly uncomfortable. While China is not taking over the world militarily, it seems to be steadily taking it over commercially. Read more

Lavere økonomisk vekst i Kina

De siste offisielle tallene fra Kina viser lavere økonomisk vekst og svikt i eksporten. Også andre land, som Norge, vil merke nedgangen i form av lavere etterspørsel på utenlandske varer. Les mer

Kina bygger "ny Panama-kanal"

Et kinesisk selskap har signert en kontrakt med regjeringen i Nicaragua om å bygge en "ny Panama-kanal". Prosjektet vil koste 40 milliarder dollar. Les mer