From The Opposite End of China Blog: At the behest of neweurasia, I’m diving today into the unfamiliar waters of wild speculation. What will Xinjiang be like fifteen years from now, in the year 2021? Of course, no one really knows. If my predictions turn out to be correct, chalk it up to luck rather […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Inquirer: Pop Quiz! One question, and it seems simple. Q) Is China Communist? A) Yes, there are more than a billion commies living the Marxist utopian ideal in the East. B) No, they’re unforgiving, shrewd, money-hungry capitalists like the rest of us. Correct answer: B. China’s no more red than Michael […]
Read MoreFrom xinhua via People’s Daily Online: China urgently needs a new rural land ownership mechanism to guarantee farmers’ legal rights and security, according to a UN-China project inked in Beijing on Dec. 20. Jointly launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Chinese government, the four-year project aims to revitalize rural China by […]
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune: That inexpensive sweater exacts a hidden toll: dust-borne pollution that reaches America. Part one of a Tribune special report. Shatar the herdsman squinted into the twilight on the ruined grasslands where Genghis Khan once galloped. He frowned and called his goats. The wind tasted like dust. On the other side of the […]
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune: The demand for Chinese goods is driving destructive logging around the globe. Part two of a Tribune special report. Night and day, the timber ships reach this Yangtze River port, one of the world’s busiest clearinghouses for logs from every corner of the globe: Southeast Asia, the Amazon, Russia, the Congo. Soon, […]
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