Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.
After talks broke down between Beijing and representatives of the Dalai Lama, Chinese officials have already begun talking about the septuagenarian religious leader’s passing. From The Globe and Mail: The 73-year-old...
Read MoreChina National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Iraqi state-owned oil company North Oil have signed a contract worth $3.5 billion. From The New York Times: It will allow CNPC, together with another Chinese company, Norinco, to...
Read MoreA New York-based preservation group recently finished a decade-long collaboration with Beijing to restore a corner of one of its most famous relics. From The Los Angeles Times: “The Forbidden City is huge and . . . there...
Read MoreTime magazine’s Simon Elegant asks if China’s nearly $600 million stimulus plan is China’s version of the New Deal or not: “I think in a decade, we’ll be looking back at this moment and saying,...
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