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In a sign that water is becoming the “new carbon,” Coca-Cola has agreed to change their bottling practices to conserve water while also contributing to efforts to clean up the Yangtze: Coca-Cola (KO) will revamp bottling practices globally to save water and pay for conservation along the Yangtze River and other major waterways, highlighting a […]
Read MoreIn The Atlantic, James Fallows has written a lengthy piece about Shenzhen as a manufacturing and outsourcing base. The article is available to subscribers only but an audio slideshow is available here.
Read MoreOn his Chinese Law and Politics blog, Carl Minzner writes about proposed reforms to the hukou system in China: Chinese authorities are considering reforms to the Chinese hukou (household registration) system. Proposed reforms would strengthen the system of temporary residence permits, expand the ability of the spouses and elderly parents of urban residents to relocate […]
Read MoreAP reports on a new virtual world being created for the Chinese market: Under the new deal, MindArk will train artists from Cyber Recreation Development, which is backed by the Beijing city government, to create a Chinese planet within Entropia Universe by August 2008. News of the new computer program sparked some media speculation in […]
Read MoreFrom the Congressional Quarterly: The same top Bush administration neoconservatives who leap-frogged Washington’s foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in U.S.-China relations”creating the potential of a nuclear war over Taiwan, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell says. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, the U.S. Army colonel […]
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