Gao Fei

Gao Fei is the pen name of a journalist from China now living and working in the U.S.

A Mystery in Beijing: Who Runs Military? – David Lague

Amid the Bush administration’s complaints of “a lack of transparency” surrounding China’s military strategies and doctrines, U.S. involvement with cross-strait relations makes it difficult for China to reveal too much, according to this story that looks into possible differences between PLA leadership and their civilian counterparts. From International Herald Tribune: As China converts its growing […]

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China Weighs Whether to Send Troops into Darfur – Alfred de Montesquiou

An update on the pressure on China to contribute to the peacekeeping mission in Darfur, from AP via The Boston Globe: China’s special envoy on Darfur said yester day that his country will seriously consider whether to send troops on a peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Sudanese region and insisted Beijing is doing its best […]

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Photos: World’s Longest Bridge Span Connects – Jongo News

From Jongo News: The two ends of the Sutong Bridge, the world’s longest span bridge, were connected over China’s Yangtze River on Monday. The bridge linking two major cities in the eastern Jiangsu Province is being built by the Second Engineering Corp. of the China Road and Bridge Corp. at a cost of RMB 6.45 […]

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“Children Slaves, Shanxi, China” Video

A video on YouTube narrates the “conflict between labor and capital” in the Shanxi brick kiln case, raising awareness of the 1000 children still to be rescued. The video from daughterofchina, who also uploaded a video protesting the Xiamen PX project, was viewed over 1000 times on its first day.

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China Launches Successful Anti-piracy Program Against Movie Pirate – Imagethief

Imagethief blog reviews the cuts made in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and concludes that “like all Chinese movie edits its really more symbolic than functional.” …Nevertheless, passing the film with cuts was an improvement over what happened to the second installment of the series, which was banned altogether for reasons of “feudal […]

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