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From Reuters: A vandal damaged the giant portrait of China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong that hangs over the Forbidden City on Saturday, prompting police to clear the area and adjacent Tiananmen Square, witnesses said. Most of the picture was intact, but workers could be seen in a crane cleaning the lower left area of the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Abortion is legal and widely accessible in China, yet the usual profile is of married women complying, voluntarily or not, with the one-child policy. But as Chinese society rapidly changes, so has the face of abortion. More young, single women are having abortions and even constitute a majority of those […]
Read MoreAsia Times reviews Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World by Joshua Kurlantzick: Joshua Kurlantzick’s new book Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World is a balanced and elegant application of Nye’s concept of soft power to the question of how China is engaging the world. Kurlantzick’s analysis manages […]
Read MoreRobert Samuelson writes about the problems he perceives in the U.S.-China trade relationship: It sometimes seems that almost everything we buy comes from China: DVD players, computers, shoes, toys, socks. This is, of course, a myth. In 2006, imports from China totaled $288 billion, about 16 percent of all U.S. imports and equal to only […]
Read MoreTaiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has written an op-ed in the Washington Post about Taiwan’s failure to gain member status in the World Health Organization due to a secret memorandum signed between the WHO and China: Taiwan is not a member of the WHO, nor is it an observer at the World Health Assembly (WHA) — […]
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