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More on Facebook’s plans to enter the China market, from The Times: Facebook is reported to have offered $85 million (¬£41 million) to buy Zhanzuo.com, its largest Chinese counterpart, which has an estimated seven million active users and a popular base among students. It would give Facebook a ready-made entry point to the largest internet […]
Read MoreThe Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog takes an optimistic look at China’s use of renewable energy: Lisa Stiffler of the P-I writes in her Environment blog about a Worldwatch Institute study on energy development in China. * China will likely achieve — and may even exceed — its target to obtain 15 percent of its energy from […]
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Richard Bernstein writes about the debates inspired by James Mann’s book, The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression: …Because Mann’s book accuses China policy makers of a kind of broken promise, it seems to have generated an especially angry response on the Internet and in such specialty […]
Read MoreCDT has recently switched to using FeedBlitz to send our daily email newsletter. This should solve the problems that some subscribers have been having with the previous newsletter. If you wish to receive this newsletter, please enter your email into the Subscribe box on the top of the front page. If you are inside China […]
Read MoreConcerns are mounting in the U.S. over China’s relationship with Iran and the possibility that China will veto U.N. sanctions against Iran. From the Washington Post: China now gets at least 14 percent of its imported oil from Iran, making it China’s largest supplier and the source of as much as $7 billion worth of […]
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