Paulina Hartono is a graduate of UC Berkeley.
From The Australian: Back in 2001, China’s Olympic bid committee argued that awarding the 2008 Games to Beijing would help the development of human rights. The message was intended for foreign, not Chinese, ears but it has spread through more than a million Chinese chat rooms and 20 million blogs. Not only intellectuals but elder […]
Read More“China’s behemoth economy may have been built on it, but the people who live in the country’s coal producing regions have been suffering the consequences for decades.” CDT’s Wu Nan tells the story of one young man who decided to fight back. From The Chinadialogue: Hao Hualin calls the place where he grew up, “Talking […]
Read MoreBeijing based reporter John Garnaut has found out more interesting facts about the Dongnangang village land dispute issue, from theage.com: Land disputes between peasants and officials are one of the most common causes of conflict in China. This case is unusual because of the scale and brazen nature of the land appropriation, lacking any of […]
Read MoreFrom The Chicago Tribune: The dawn of 2008 opens an extraordinary period in China’s rise that is likely to thrust the nation into a greater role in world affairs than at any time in recent history. But this moment of potential also carries enormous risk: 2008 is likely to test China’s fragile economic boom, its […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: The Canadian government’s little-examined role in the building of China’s Three Gorges Dam sheds light on how foreign governments and companies helped China move forward with one of the most controversial engineering projects in history. Many Western governments, including the U.S., initially refused to support China’s plan to build the […]
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