Monthly Archives: January 2011
New York Times: China’s Naval Ambitions
January 2, 2011 3:31 PM
From an editorial in the New York Times: Beijing’s drive to extend its military and territorial reach is making America’s close allies in the region ner
China Unveils World’s Longest Sea Bridge
January 2, 2011 3:28 PM
The Daily Mail reports on the new longest sea bridge in the world in Qingdao. The bridge straddles the Jiaozhou Bay and is 26.4 miles long: With an overall
When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China
January 2, 2011 3:21 PM
From the New York Times, a reports on China’s ambitions to become an innovation economy: …Can China become a prodigious inventor? The answer,
China’s Leper Colonies Await Homecoming
January 1, 2011 12:38 AM
From USA Today: DAJIN ISLAND, China — For the past half-century, Huang Shaokuan prayed daily for spiritual support as she coped with the disease that t
A Letter to 2011: Do We Have Reason for Hope?
January 1, 2011 12:32 AM
In New Weekly, He Shuqing asks what miseries and quandaries afflict China, and what hope casts a light of positivity on the new year.