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From Hindustan Times: India and China have decided to set up a working group that will prepare a framework to resolve their decades-old border dispute, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said after meeting his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Thursday. “The 11th round of talks between the Special Representatives (tasked to tackle the border issue) […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: A local regulation issued by the Standing Committee of Gansu Provincial People’s Congress on September 27, attracted a great deal of media attention and the ears of academics, among others. The directive, called the Draft Legislation Regulation of the Gansu Provincial People’s Congress and Its Standing Committee, stipulates that normal people have the […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Who is Xi Jinping? It’s possibly the most important question in China today. At the 17th Party Congress, Mr. Xi was made head of the Party secretariat to the Standing Committee of the Politburo — which puts him in pole position to lead China when Hu Jintao steps down from […]
Read MoreHong Kong Legislative Council member Martin Lee wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling on the U.S. to pressure China on human rights issues in the run-up to the Olympics. ESWN has reposted the full essay, followed by articles about protesters who gathered outside the LegCo offices to call Lee a “running dog”. […]
Read MoreAn Israeli design firm has won an award for proposing the use of “Agro-Housing” to counter the effects of urbanization in China, and their submission will be built in Wuhan. Agro-Housing combines living space with a greenhouse in urban apartment buildings so residents can grow their own food. From Dwell Blog: China has a population […]
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