Japhet Weeks

Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.

China’s Population May Hit 1.5b in 2033

Shanghai Daily reports: The population will see an annual increase of about eight million people in the next decade and may reach 1.36 billion in 2010 and 1.4 billion in 2020, said Li Bin, director of the National Population and...

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China Plans to Bolster Its Slowing Economy

The New York Times reports on policy changes China is making in order to stimulate its slowing economy: China’s State Council, or cabinet, met over the weekend and decided to shift the emphasis toward maintaining “a...

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Their Own Worst Enemy

James Fallows of The Atlantic asks how China, with its vast propaganda machine, manages to do such a consistently poor job of advertising itself to the rest of the world: Why does a society that, like America, impresses most...

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