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Tim Johnson has published a series of reports based on his trip to Tibet, for which he was reprimanded by the Foreign Ministry upon his return. The reports, from Everest Base Camp, focus on the travails of climbing the world’s highest peak: The violent and icy landscape of Mount Everest has become a magnet for […]
Read MoreVice Premier Wu Yi is heading to Washington for high level trade talks aimed at easing recent tensions over a spate of issues. From USA Today: Against a backdrop of rising complaints about Chinese trade practices, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will kick off two days of Cabinet-level talks here called the Strategic Economic Dialogue. The […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via Chinese National News: China was ‘losing no time’ in preparing its first lunar orbiter, Chang’e I, which will most likely be launched in the second half of 2007, a space official said here Sunday. ‘The moon probe project is the third milestone in China’s space technology after satellite and manned spacecraft projects, […]
Read MoreOfficials organizing the Beijing Olympics remain very concerned about air pollution during the 2008 Games and have dismissed concerns linking the Olympics to human rights issues: Although pollution controls are having an effect ” Beijing experienced 241 days last year in which the air quality was rated as good, up from 100 in 1998 ” […]
Read MoreAs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation prepares to launch HIV prevention work in China, the Seattle Times reports on potential difficulties for the group: The Gates Foundation could face major challenges in a country where many non-governmental organizations are mistrusted, and the country’s top AIDS activists are routinely put under house arrest… So far […]
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