Japhet Weeks

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

Brands Chase Beijing Games Boost

Big international brands like Adidas, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Kodak and VW are looking to the Beijing Olympics for gold and recognition. Chinese PC maker Lenovo is hopeful that the Olympics will help catapult their products...

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Chinese Cities Vie To Be Top Finance Hub

Beijing, Shenzhen and Shanghai — China’s three major urban centers — have all unveiled new, competing city plans that map out their ascendancy into the position of China’s international financial capital....

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Olympic Shame, by Accident?

James Fallows writes on his Atlantic blog about recent decisions on Beijing’s part — some inadvertent, some deliberate — that may end up turning the Olympics “into a source of friction rather than pride...

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The China Diary of George H.W. Bush

The New Republic takes a look at former U.S. President George H.W. Bush’s sojourn in Beijing as head of the U.S. Liaison Office, 1974-1975, as documented in the recently published book, The China Diary of George H.W. Bush:...

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