Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

The rise of various Asian nations has led to the recent rise of Nationalism. As news of evidence of the horrific 1937 "Rape of Nanking" comes to light, Asian holocaust deniers crawl out and attempt to distort history...to the point of asserting that "the Chinese are inferior to the Japanese".

Basketball fan Dan Harris compares the career of Yao Ming with the so-called rise of China. Harris believes Yao lacks desire and will never become a NBA great. Based on this, he cautions people who are rushing to proclaim China a great power.

A majority of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API's) used in manufacturing medicines worldwide are sourced from India and china. Have a look at the line graph and you will see the sharp rise in the API filings to the Food and Drug Administration from these two nations since 1997.

PBS's wonderful site on China's rise as a world power. Loads of facts, figures and photos.

This is the final part of a series in which we look at China’s emerging relationship with the Africa. The first part of the series examined China search for oil on the continent, while part two looked at what China was giving back to Africa. Part three examines the Sino-African relationship, its current state, and possible future.

The rather insightful Like Cooking A Small Fish blog has some good commentary on a recent essay by political scientist G. John Ikenberry and his thought regarding China's rise to power and whether it will be a peaceful ascent that falls in line with the Western model or not.

A rather funny (not funny hah hah) account of a 'debate' that recently aired on Phoenix TV where the validity of a Peking University professor's claim to being.. well.. a professor at all were called into question. It all very nearly came to blows.

As per usual, ESWN does a great job of translating some of the behind-the-scenes commentaries of what went down. Bizarre fraud in the PRC.

China raised the price of its co-operation in the world's climate change talks yesterday by calling for developed countries to spend 1 per cent of their domestic product helping poorer nations cut greenhouse gas emissions.

A rocket blast in southern Lebanon injured three Chinese peacekeepers on Sunday, just hours after China called on the United Nations to ensure the security of U.N. peacekeepers in the Middle East, state media reported.