From US Department of State Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. Zheng Bijian, Chair of the China Reform Forum, who over some decades has been a counselor to China’s leaders. We have spent many hours in Beijing and Washington discussing China’s course of development and Sino-American relations. It […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Weekly “Aren’t we Chinese great? They said it couldn’t be done. And yet we’ve not only done it, we’ve done it ahead of plan.” We are two hours, several beers and half a roasted duck into a journey on the overnight express from Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, travelling along the completed […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua China’s rapid economic growth, brought about by the adoption of market mechanisms, is quite likely to continue in the coming years, said a report offered by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) during an ongoing anti-corruption conference here in Beijing. In the past more than two decades, China’s economic growth has […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News China’s economic growth over the past few years has given rise to a new wealthy elite looking for ways to spend their money. “You can see it in designer shops in Shanghai and Beijing,” says Angelica Cheung, the editor-in-chief of the newly launched Vogue China. “People who are not particularly tastefully dressed […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times The Chinese government this week announced new steps to control information available on the Internet, saying the regulations were designed to foster “healthy and civilized” news. Websites and portals will be allowed to distribute only information and opinions published in the state-owned print media. In recent years as computer use has […]
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