Chinese Company Builds 30-Story Hotel in 15 Days
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(LONDON) — A Chinese company has seemingly accomplished the impossible, putting up a 30-story building in half as many days. Broad Sustainable Building finished construction on the 30-story hotel prototype in the city of Ch…
Death Row Interviews Attract 40 Million Viewers in China
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(BEIJING) — While the rest of the world is watching what happens on American Idol, China has been watching what happens on death row.For the last five years, a surprising show has been building a steady audience now estimated to …
Romney Turns Focus on Trade Policies with China
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(BELLEVUE, Wash.) — Trade policies were at the center at Mitt Romney’s events in a suburb outside Seattle, where he continued to assail China for being a “currency manipulator” and accused President Obama of bei…
Jurassic Blood-Sucking Fleas Discovered in China
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Hide your dogs, hide your cats! The discovery of monstrous “Jurassic fleas” in Northern China is enough to make even Twilight’s vampires quiver.A team of researchers has unearthed the fossilized remains …
China Recruits Experienced Pilots from America
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(MIAMI) — Over the course of three days, the All-China Job Fair will see more than 800 pilots looking for more lucrative work, from more than half a world away.Ten Asian airlines are scouring the United States looking for experie…
Pete Hoekstra Scrubs Racially Tinged Super Bowl Ad from Internet
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — While it aired on television only in the state of Michigan, Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra’s racially charged Super Bowl ad soon became the perceived slur heard round the country.Now, after a deluge of crit…
Knicks Star Jeremy Lin’s Roots Traced to Zhejiang Province
Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post(NEW YORK) — South of Shanghai, in Zhejiang province, China is a four-lane highway that runs the coastline of the East China Sea. This is Yangtze River Delta territory. The wet land and accessible port make thi…
Jon Huntsman Criticizes Mitt Romney Over China Policy Despite Endorsement
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Jon Huntsman, who served as ambassador to China prior to his presidential bid, was blunt when expressing his disapproval of how Mitt Romney would handle relations with China. Huntsman said Romney was “wrong…
Is ‘Linsanity’ Driving the Chinese Government Crazy?
Chris Chambers/Getty Images(BEIJING) — New York Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin may be an overnight sensation in Asia, but could he be a problematic poster child for the Chinese government?Lin’s instant athletic star appeal has fans in Asia cleaning out stor…
Most Americans See China Unfavorably, Poll Finds
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — China’s future president has some bridges to build on his visit to the United States: More than half of Americans continue to see his country unfavorably overall.Fifty-two percent of those surveyed in the latest …
China to Unveil World’s Fastest Elevator in Shanghai
Hemera Technologies/Thinkstock(SHANGHAI) — China is currently building the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Shanghai Tower, which will stand 2,073 feet high once complete. To shuttle passengers to the sky, Mitsubishi has been contracted to …
Chinese Espionage Alleged to Have Targeted DuPont
Courtesy of DuPont(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department Wednesday charged that Chinese-controlled companies conspired to steal production secrets potentially worth billions of dollars from U.S. chemical giant DuPont.The long-running, multi-billion-dol…
Chinese VP to Visit Iowa
PAIROJ/AFP/Getty Images(MUSCATINE, Iowa) — To this day, Sarah Lande of Muscatine, Iowa remembers vividly the dinner she hosted for an ambitious young Chinese official 27 years ago.Now that visitor, Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping, is on a fast track…
UN Officials React to Russia and China’s Veto of UN Syria Resolution
Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images(UNITED NATIONS) — The United States is “disgusted” by Russia and China’s decision to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution on Saturday that called for an immediate end to the violence in Syria, U.S. A…
Russia and China Veto UN Syria Resolution
Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images(UNITED NATIONS) — Russia and China vetoed on Saturday the resolution that calls for an immediate end to the violence in Syria. Speaking forcefully into the microphone at the United Nations Security Council, United States…
Kenyon Martin is Officially an Unrestricted Free Agent
ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Let the bidding begin: Kenyon Martin is officially free to sign anywhere in the NBA after he was cleared to return to the NBA two weeks ahead of schedule.
Martin had been playing with the Xinj…
FBI Raises Concerns About Cyber Attacks from China and Russia
Hemera/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Threats from cyber-espionage, computer crime, and attacks on critical infrastructure will surpass terrorism as the number-one threat facing the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified Tuesday.Mueller and Na…
Death on an Escalator: China’s Evolving Childcare
Death on an Escalator: China’s Evolving Childcare(BEIJING) — A 9-year-old boy died Sunday while riding an escalator in a busy Beijing mall. Reports are he was ascending unaccompanied from the fifth to the sixth floors. His mother wor…
Chinese Soldiers Play Pass the Grenade?
JupiterImages/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Chinese military inspires wonder and fear in some quarters – particularly in this day and age when China and the United States engage in a near-daily mutual bashing over issues ranging from trade and cu…
Auspicious Beginnings: More Babies Born During Year of Dragon
ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images(GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — Monday is Chinese New Year, and it marks the beginning of the year of the dragon, which only comes around every 12 years.In Chinese culture, it is considered good fortune to be born…