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Last 20 Shows China’s Stock Market Tumbles and Post-Election Taiwan
Segment 1: China’s Stock Market Makes History
If you think you’ve got it bad because of the recent market decline in the U.S., you should take a look at Chinese stock investors. By the end of the first quarter, China’s main market, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, had tumbled about 43% since its peak in October of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dalai Lama and Beijing’s 7th Round of Talks and China’s Stock Market Melt-down
Segment 1: Seventh Round of Talks between Dalai Lama and Beijing
Starting in March 2008, Buddhist monks and others took to the streets in Tibetan areas in repeated protest against their treatment by Chinese authorities. Large numbers of paramilitary police were mobilized to contain the unrest, and large scale arrests and continued surveillance have restored a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Congressman in China/Global Online Freedom Act
Segment 1: Congressmen Barred from Meeting with Chinese Dissidents
The Chinese security apparatus has tightened controls considerably, ahead of the Beijing Olympics. Chinese dissidents with grievances have been rounded up, or kept from entering Beijing by policed security cordons that ring the city. Congressmen Frank Wolf and Chris Smith, two outspoken critics of China’s human rights [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Impact of Asian American Voters/On Patrol in the Virtual WorldSegment 1: Impact of the Asian American Vote
The presidential campaign is in full swing. Ethnic minorities represent an increasingly powerful voting bloc that will help decide which presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, wins the 2008 general election. Feb. 5 Super Tuesday exit polls showed that 75% of Asian Americans voted for [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wall Street in Crisis/Asian American Voters Keeping Virginia Red?Segment 1: Wall Street in Crisis
Wall Street is in crisis. It drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy and forced American International Group into the hands of the U.S. government. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Goldman and Morgan Stanley are to become commercial banks. China has resisted years of pressure from U.S. Treasury Secretary [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wall Street in Crisis/Asian American Voters Keeping Virginia Red?Segment 1: Wall Street in Crisis
Wall Street is in crisis. It drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy and forced American International Group into the hands of the U.S. government. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Goldman and Morgan Stanley are to become commercial banks. China has resisted years of pressure from U.S. Treasury Secretary [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
China’s Tainted Milk Products/U.S.-India Nuclear PactSegment 1: China’s Tainted Milk Products
Fifty-four thousand infants were sick in China, six thousand hospitalized, four died. The tainted milk scandal has sparked global concern about Chinese food products, with more than 30 countries restricting Chinese dairy products, and in some cases, all imports of Chinese made food. EU has a Europe-wide ban on all [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
China’s Economic Stimulus Plan/U.S.-China PolicySegment 1: China’s Economic Stimulus Plan
Beijing has unveiled an economic stimulus program totaling $586 billion. It aims to bolster domestic demand and help avert global recession. The size of the stimulus plan was clearly designed to revive the fading confidence of Chinese businesses and consumers and impress foreign governments. The announced sum of four trillion [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Obama’s China Resume/FDA’s Beijing OfficeSegment 1: Obama’s China Resume
President-elect Obama has a thin resume. This is particularly true regarding his record on U.S.-China relations. At the April 2007 debate among Democratic candidates, Obama said China is “neither our enemy nor our friend. They’re our competitors.” Senator Obama has noted the problems with China’s revaluation of the Yuan, and he [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
U.S.-China Clash Near Hainan Island/Success of Divine Performing ArtsSegment 1: U.S.-China Clash Near Hainan Island
On Sunday, March 7, the Navy surveillance ship Impeccable was harassed by a group of Chinese naval vessels. One of the vessels tried to snag the sonar device and came within 25 feet of the American ship. The Chinese government has asserted that the U.S. maneuver was an illegal [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
South China Sea Incident/China’s Purchase of U.S. TreasuriesSegment 1: South China Sea Incident
On Sunday, March 7, the Navy surveillance ship Impeccable was harassed by a group of Chinese naval vessels. Both sides questioned the other’s motives, with Beijing accusing the U.S. of conducting “activities in China’s special economic zone in the South China Sea without China’s permission”. In other words, the U.S. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
U.S. in Afghanistan/Obama’s First 100 DaysSegment 1: U.S. in Afghanistan
Afghanistan isn’t called the graveyard of empires for nothing.
Alexander the Great was struck by an Afghan archer’s arrow. Genghis
Khan established a powerful empire only after reaching painful
accommodations with the Afghans. While exercising their influence on
surrounding lands, the Greeks, Arabs, Iranians, and Buddhists each
sought to bring their culture’s influence into Afghanistan and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Protests/U.S. Economic RecoverySegment 1: Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Protests
June 4th marks the twentieth anniversary of the brutal crackdown on China’s 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations. The student-led protests, which started in April, grew throughout May until early June when troops were sent in killing hundreds of protesters. Every year the Tiananmen Mothers send China’s top leaders a letter [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Shen Yun Performing Arts Bringing Chinese Culture to the WorldSegment 1: Shen Yun Performing Arts: Bringing Chinese Culture to the World
Shen Yun Performing Arts, formerly known as Divine Performing Arts, will return to Washington, DC, August 26-30th with its breathtaking classical Chinese dance and orchestral music after a successful run in February. The six shows at the Kennedy Center Opera House from February 11-15th [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Advancing Human Rights and Democracy in China/China and the World EconomySegment 1: Advancing Human Rights and Democracy in China
Falun Gong and the China Democratic Party emerged almost simultaneously ten years ago. In 1999, ten thousand practitioners of Falun Gong appeared silently and respectfully at the Chinese government leadership compound in Beijing to protest the beatings of forty fellow members in a nearby city. At the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Wall Street in Crisis/Asian American Voters Keeping Virginia Red?Segment 1: Wall Street in Crisis
Wall Street is in crisis. It drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy and forced American International Group into the hands of the U.S. government. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Goldman and Morgan Stanley are to become commercial banks. China has resisted years of pressure from U.S. Treasury Secretary [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Advancing Human Rights and Democracy in China/China and the World EconomySegment 1: Advancing Human Rights and Democracy in China
Falun Gong and the China Democratic Party emerged almost simultaneously ten years ago. In 1999, ten thousand practitioners of Falun Gong appeared silently and respectfully at the Chinese government leadership compound in Beijing to protest the beatings of forty fellow members in a nearby city. At the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dalai Lama and Beijing’s 7th Round of Talks and China’s Stock Market Melt-down
Segment 1: Seventh Round of Talks between Dalai Lama and Beijing
Starting in March 2008, Buddhist monks and others took to the streets in Tibetan areas in repeated protest against their treatment by Chinese authorities. Large numbers of paramilitary police were mobilized to contain the unrest, and large scale arrests and continued surveillance have restored a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Congressman in China/Global Online Freedom Act
Segment 1: Congressmen Barred from Meeting with Chinese Dissidents
The Chinese security apparatus has tightened controls considerably, ahead of the Beijing Olympics. Chinese dissidents with grievances have been rounded up, or kept from entering Beijing by policed security cordons that ring the city. Congressmen Frank Wolf and Chris Smith, two outspoken critics of China’s human rights [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Impact of Asian American Voters/On Patrol in the Virtual WorldSegment 1: Impact of the Asian American Vote
The presidential campaign is in full swing. Ethnic minorities represent an increasingly powerful voting bloc that will help decide which presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, wins the 2008 general election. Feb. 5 Super Tuesday exit polls showed that 75% of Asian Americans voted for [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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