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From The Age: As construction trucks roar past the fence separating Mr Chen’s shop from the Three Gorges construction site at Sandouping ” a restricted military zone open to tourists on a tightly-monitored basis ” he can gaze out at the placid waters that cover his former village and the small restaurant he used to […]
Read MoreAn editorial in the Guardian on U.S.-China trade, as Vice Premier Wu Yi and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson meet in Washington: China-bashing plays well in America. The biggest charge against the People’s Republic is that it keeps its currency weak to make it easier for Chinese exporters to sell their goods abroad. The result, […]
Read MoreAsia Times reports on the progress, and lack thereof, in women’s rights in China in recent years: “Women hold up half the sky,” said Mao Zedong. And indeed, they now account for 45% of China’s workforce and 40% of positions in government. So the Chinese leadership was within its rights last week to boast of […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The Chinese government said yesterday that it would acquire a $3 billion stake in the Blackstone Group, the private equity firm, in the country’s first effort to diversify its $1.2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves beyond United States Treasury bills and into commercial enterprise. The deal, which is set to coincide […]
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