http://www.trustedsources.co.uken-GBMon, 20 May 2013 11:02:54 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/watch-the-clouds <p> For a regime that likes to say it was swept to power by a peasant revolt, China’s Communist leaders has generally given farming a lower priority than industry. The exception...</p>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:49:11 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/china-s-food-safety-and-the-trust-deficit <p> In Guangzhou, a rat is a rat – at least at the restaurant that specializes in serving them, assuring customers that the rodents have all been caught out in the countryside...</p>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:01:43 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/rising-confrontations-and-the-china-dream <p> China seems to have gone into overdrive in pressing its regional claims this spring. From the Himalayas to islands off Japan via the South China Sea, Beijing is involved in...</p>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:47:42 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/china-s-regional-policy-dilemma-deepens <p> As the senior voice in formulating China’s foreign policy, Xi Jinping has had two things to say publicly since becoming President of the People’s Republic last month. </p> <p> <b>Xi...</b></p>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:06:18 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/xi-and-his-dream <p> (Apologies, first, for the absence of this blog for the past few weeks – too much travel and too many other commitments.) </p> <p> Five months after he stepped out at the...</p>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:25:07 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/pigs-in-the-river-a-symptom-of-something-broader <p> A Shanghai bakery is offering a novelty cake in which confectionery pigs float on a river of chocolate. That is one way of reacting to the flood of pig carcasses that have...</p>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:01:14 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/east-asia-the-dangers-of-the-rhetoric <p> First it was overblown comparisons on the part of some commentators with pre-1914 Europe, with China playing the role of the Kaiser’s Germany; now the comparisons are being...</p>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:13:33 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/china-and-north-korea-when-the-little-brother-thumbs-his-nose <p> North Korea has never cared about China’s attitude. When it needs China’s assistance, it will offer flattering words, such as praising China’s achievements in reforming and...</p>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:53:18 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/china-s-new-leaders-look-at-the-world <p> The concepts of G2 and Chinamerica have, thank goodness, gone to the graveyard of headline-grabbing but essentially commonplace extrapolations from familiar facts. China’s...</p>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:55:36 GMThttp://www.trustedsources.co.uk/blog/china/the-priorities-behind-xi-s-new-face <p> Xi Jinping’s first three months as China’s leader have borne out the impression of a man with a new style that he gave as soon as he stepped out as Communist Party General...</p>