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Samuel Wade (@samuel_wade@mstdn.ca) is Executive Editor for CDT English, and is based in Vancouver.
China to Clean Up Billions Worth of Local Debt
Beijing is to take on some 2-3 trillion yuan of local government debts according to Reuters, hoping to stave off a wave of destabilising defaults in the future. As part of Beijing’s overhaul of the finances of...
Read More“Forces of Darkness” Bring Down Nationalist Chinese Website
The Sydney Morning Herald’s John Garnaut reports on the recent hacking of nationalist Chinese website Utopia: The flagship website of China’s resurgent New Left movement was brought down by hackers yesterday,...
Read MoreChina TV Struggles to Break Free of State
China’s TV industry is the focus of a pair of articles at the Financial Times. The first describes the efforts of China’s second largest broadcaster, Hunan Broadcasting System, to commercialise its organisation and...
Read MoreShanghai Schoolchildren Getting “Very Fat Very Fast”
The past ten years have seen a surge in obesity rates among Shanghai’s schoolchildren, according to a Global Times report: Obesity among Shanghai schoolchildren has increased 24.4 percent in the last decade, according to a...
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