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From Caijing: In a move to woo multinational corporations to set up R&D centers in China and conduct with Chinese partners, Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, stresses that the Chinese government will protect the lawful rights and interests of all foreign investors and intellectual property rights holders in […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post has a portrait of Ritan Park in Beijing: Located in the Chinese capital’s embassy district, Ritan Park has long been surrounded by tall buildings and busy streets. Even within its walls, chic restaurants now occupy several of the most beautiful examples of traditional Chinese architecture. A German beer garden protrudes into one […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Roughly a dozen interest rate increases and other moves to tighten money and lending over the last three years have failed to tame growth in China, the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Fueled by soaring exports and huge investments in infrastructure, factories and energy supplies, China could soon overtake Germany to […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: China’s newly rich have become the targets of shady executives and a gangster underworld. Businessmen occasionally hire contract killers to snuff out their competitors. There are unscrupulous bosses who want to keep workers who demand their wages off their backs. And criminals who will blackmail or kidnap the rich in order to […]
Read MoreChina Media Project has translated portions of an editorial from Southern Metropolis Daily about the “Wall of Shame” in Gansu: The Southern Metropolis Daily editorial does not shrink from the deeper import of the “wall of shame” story. It argues that the idea of a “new countryside” is not about new building projects, or even […]
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