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The Times of India outlines what its reporter believes is China’s plan for preparing for the death of the current Dalai Lama: Chinese authorities are working on an action plan for the post-Dalai Lama scenario in Tibet. The plan involves promoting the officially ordained Panchen Lama as the supreme spiritual leader of the Tibetan people […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports on the inordinately high suicide rate among women in rural China: The suicide rate for women in China is 25 percent higher than for men, and the rural rate is three times the urban rate. In Western countries, men are at least twice as likely and sometimes four times as likely […]
Read MoreVia the Foreign Policy blog, the Shift Happens slideshow, which just won the SlideShare World’s Best Presentation Contest: – Only a few slides are directly related to China but it is worth watching nonetheless.
Read MoreThe China staff of the Wall Street Journal is speaking up against Rupert Murdoch’s attempted takeover of the paper. Talking Points Memo blog has obtained a letter from the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters to the Bancroft...
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: When Zhang Rongde ponied up $12 million to build a steel plant in this dusty town in central China, local officials offered the out-of-town entrepreneur tax savings, cheaper electricity rates and the title of “honorary citizen.” In the U.S., an honor such as that might come with a symbolic key […]
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