This week in Shanghaiist
- DPRK tells Wen it open to nuke talks [China Daily] "Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Yong-il told his visiting Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao Sunday that the country was open to bilateral and multilateral talks on its nuclear programmes, China Central Television (CCTV) reported. "DPRK has never abandoned the goal (of denuclearising the Korean peninsula). We are willing to seek to realize this goal through bilateral and multilateral dialogue," Kim was quoted as saying by the CCTV."
- China Hopes to Create Its Own Media Empires [NYTimes] ""China plans to spend billions of dollars in the next few years to develop media and entertainment companies that it hopes can compete with global giants like the News Corporation and Time Warner, and will in the process loosen some of its tight control of these industries. An ambitious plan, set forth in guidelines last week by China’s State Council, envisions the creation of entertainment, news and culture companies with a market orientation and with less government backing. China, in short, would like to consolidate its industry into companies resembling Bloomberg, Time Warner and Viacom, analysts say."
- Obama's Meeting With the Dalai Lama Is Delayed [Washington Post] "In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama's summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month, according to diplomats, government officials and other sources familiar with the talks."
- NPM won't loan pieces to China [China Post] "National treasures at the Taipei-based National Palace Museum (NPM) will not be exhibited in China because that country does not have a law to prevent the seizure of artworks, according to NPM Director Chou Kung-shin. The NPM collections are national assets and if they are to be exhibited abroad, it will be only in countries that have laws that guarantee the return of the exhibits, Chou said. "As long as there are no such legal protections in China, the NPM will not consider loaning the national treasures to that country," Chou said."
- Hong Kong wine auctions overtake London, New York [Reuters] "Hong Kong took top slot among the world's major wine markets at weekend auctions where Sotheby's sold $8 million worth of fine wine. Hong Kong has grown as a wine hub, taking over from London and New York, after the city abolished wine duties. And auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's have been pushing Asian buyers for new business as prices drop in the wake of global economic downturn and as luxury spending dwindles."
- Beijing's Show of Unity Gives Few Clues to Succession Riddle [Wall Street Journal] "The most intriguing question for many viewers of the televised event was whether the state broadcaster, China Central Television, would drop any hints about the political fortunes of Xi Jinping, the man believed to be most likely to succeed Mr. Hu. Observers were looking for the way CCTV cameras lingered on top leaders standing on the rostrum of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, capturing their facial expressions and body language."
- Sharp rise in Chinese arrests at U.S. border [LA Times] "Amid an overall drop in arrests of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S-Mexico border, an intriguing anomaly has cast a new light on human smuggling: Authorities report an almost tenfold spike in the number of Chinese people caught in the southern Arizona desert, the busiest smuggling corridor on the international line. The Border Patrol in the Tucson sector has arrested at least 261 Chinese border-crossers this year, compared with an annual average of 32 during the last four years, officials said."
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if the f-ing govt stop owning and telling every broadcaster to produce shows that "uphold Party values," maybe China can actually produce some shows that people will want to watch....
mainland Chinese entertainment is shit right now, and eve...everyone (including people in mainland China) knows that any piece of Chinese pop music or drama that may appeal to non-Chinese audience is produced in Hong Kong, Taiwan, or even Singapore (nowdays, even Korea....슈주-M 파이팅!)
The Chinese govt, before even talking about creating medias that will conquer the world, better think about creating medias that will be respected by its own people