In August 1945, Mao Zedong flew from his mountain redoubt in Yan’an to Chongqing, the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and China’s sweltering wartime capital, Jane Perlez writes. Read more »
For the historic meeting between Ma Ying-jeou and Xi Jinping, nothing is left to chance. Especially how they address each other, Austin Ramzy reports. Read more »
Economists are trying to determine whether China can shift to a model in which consumer demand becomes the main engine of economic growth, Neil Gough reports. Read more »
As far away as Wisconsin, the tentacles of China’s one-child policy wrap around the people who grew up with it, making Dr. Fuxian Yi something of an oddball among his Chinese friends there. He has three children.
‘‘In our community a lot of friends say, ‘Why do you have three children? It’s really brave of you. It’s so expensive.’ Mostly, they have one, or two,’’ said Dr. Yi, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who moved to the United States in 1999, in a telephone interview.
Since the announcement last week that China is planning to raise the number of children permitted to all couples to two, many Chinese parents of one child have said they are reluctant to have another, mostly citing high costs. Read more…
In just six years, Fuxian Yi’s book pleading for an end to the “one child” policy went from banned to promoted by the Chinese government.
The book, “Big Country With an Empty Nest,” a critical look at China’s family-planning policy, was published in Hong Kong in 2007 and promptly banned on the Chinese mainland. But in 2013, a new edition was released by China Development Press, a publisher under the Development Research Center of the Chinese State Council.
Publication of his book on the mainland was a proud moment for Dr. Yi, 46, a medical researcher and father of three who now lives in the United States and says of himself: “I grew up in a big family of seven in the countryside of western Hunan Province. I like big families.” Read more…
China has been using up to 17 percent more coal a year than reported. By some estimates, that means almost a billion more tons of carbon dioxide released annually, Chris Buckley reports. Read more »
While China beckons with cheaper labor and a huge market, it often frustrates with bureaucracy, corruption and a byzantine legal system, Dan Levin reports. Read more »
President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan is to confer with President Xi Jinping of China in Singapore on Saturday, according to statements from both, Austin Ramzy reports. Read more »
The target is an apparent attempt to temper expectations that the nation’s economy will rebound to anything near the double-digit growth of recent decades, Jane Perlez reports. Read more »
Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr. emphasized that the United States had carried out such operations around the world while avoiding military conflict, Jane Perlez reports. Read more »
