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The National Interest: Overblown Fears about China's Rise
A steady stream of publications depicts China as a fierce adversary—if not as an outright enemy. A recent article by Robert J. Samuelson leaves little room for doubt, as he entitles it “At war with China.” It follows shortly on the heels of Andrew Krepinevich’s “Panetta’s Challenge: Can he counter China’s and Iran’s game-changing new weapons?”
18 November 2011
Reuters: Thousands of workers protest wage cuts in China's Dongguan-paper
Thousands of workers at a Taiwanese factory manufacturing shoes for brands including New Balance, Nike and Adidas, in China's Dongguan staged a strike protesting wage cuts and enforced redundancies, Ming Pao Daily reported on Friday.
18 November 2011
Financial Times: Chinese workers protest against wage cuts
Thousands of workers have returned to work at a shoe factory in the southern Chinese industrial city of Dongguan, amid allegations of police brutality to quell their protests on Thursday.
18 November 2011
Age discrimination appears to be worsening in China
Factory owners in China have for decades refused to hire production line workers under 30-years-of-age, but now such blatant age discrimination is spreading to the professional services as well.
22 November 2011
Bloomberg: Longer Maternity Leave in China Signals More Women’s Rights
China plans to give women eight days more paid maternity leave in an overhaul of benefits that promises to standardize and improve their labor rights. Standard maternity leave will be increased to 98 days from 90 days, according to draft regulations posted yesterday on the website of the Legislative Affairs Office, a working body of China’s cabinet. The plan includes insurance coverage for claims related to childbirth and miscarriage.
23 November 2011
Financial Times: China labour unrest flares as orders fall
China is facing its worst wave of labour unrest since a series of wildcat strikes at Japanese-owned car plants last year, as declining export orders force factories to reduce worker pay.
24 November 2011
SCMP: Labour row ends at lingerie maker
Hundreds of migrant workers at the lingerie maker Top Form International Holdings have returned to work at the company's plant in Shenzhen, in the latest high-profile labour dispute in the industrialised Pearl River Delta.
24 November 2011
The Globe and Mail: Huawei: Will China conquer the world?
As Wind Mobile considered bids for $30 million in contracts to expand its wireless network in Canada, one of the competing companies put in a peculiar request. Wind CEO Anthony Lacavera was talking to world-beating network equipment stalwarts like Ericsson and Nokia Siemens when the Chinese firm Huawei asked if it could rent office space at Wind’s headquarters on Toronto’s waterfront.
25 November 2011
CNN: Labor woes send shudder through Beijing
China's recent economic downturn is spurring a new wave of worker strikes, which experts say are the only effective channel for them to air their grievances.
25 November 2011
News reports on recent labour unrest
China's manufacturing heartland has been hit by large-scale strikes in recent weeks, as an increasingly demanding workforce faces off with employers struggling with high costs and falling exports.
28 November 2011