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The Christian Science Monitor continues its series which asks “Is China Good for Africa?” with another report from Sudan: The Darfur crisis that has killed more than 200,000 and displaced more than 2.5 million in western Sudan continues to rage unabated, helping Sudan earn the top spot on Foreign Policy magazine’s “Failed State Index” for […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post looks at the failure of China’s banks – and consumers – to adapt to the use of credit cards and other retail banking conveniences: Although China has made strides in reforming its banking system over the past five years — cracking down on corruption, buying out many troubled loans and allowing foreign […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times compares observing a professor try to teach Marxism to Chinese college students to “watching a man try to swim up a waterfall”: Classes in Marxist philosophy have been compulsory in Chinese schools since not long after the 1949 communist revolution. They remain enshrined in the national education law, Article 3 of […]
Read MoreIn the Wall Street Journal, lawyer Jerome Cohen commemorates the Anti-Rightist Movement, and discusses its legacy in China today: Despite the enormous economic and social progress that half of the Chinese people have made in recent decades, many of the complaints voiced by the “rightists” remain among China’s most pressing issues. Freedoms to speak, publish, […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times looks at Rupert Murdoch’s treatment of MySpace in China as a harbinger of what’s to come if Murdoch’s bid for the Wall Street Journal succeeds. The article implies that Murdoch’s...
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