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China seems to be changing tack on the Burma issue and has joined the rest of the UNSC in issuing a statement criticizing the junta for the recent crackdown on peaceful protests. From the Sydney Morning Herald: The statement urged the military regime that has ruled Burma for 45 years to free all political prisoners […]
Read MoreThe Economist marks the upcoming 17th Party Congress by focusing on problems faced by China’s rural underclass and workers: BASKING in its 2008 Olympic glow, no longer shy at counting itself among the world’s greats and blessed with a still booming economy, China looks the coming power. And so it is, up to a point. […]
Read MoreFrontline/World’s Rough Cut series is featuring a short video, produced by UC Berkeley Journalism School student Duane Moles (assisted by CDT’s own Wu Nan), about coal mining in China: I headed west from Beijing to coal country, Shanxi Province, as part of a team of three reporters. Our plan was to see what life was […]
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