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From Reuters: A Chinese government delegation visited refugee camps and met officials in western Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur province to “get acquainted” with the situation there, state media reported on Sunday… China, which buys much of Sudan’s oil and wields veto power over U.N. resolutions, is facing rising criticism from Western governments and rights campaigners for […]
Read MoreJohn Kennedy at Global Voices also writes about the potentially deadly chemical plant now under construction in Xiamen: In November last year, construction began on a chemical plant in Haicang district, located on Xiamen island in the capital of Southwestern China’s Fujian province, slated to produce the solvent toluene, terephthalic acid, benzene and, for example, […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Divorce, once nearly unheard of in China, has become more common than ever as women such as Wu gain financial independence and shrug off the diminishing stigma of leaving their husbands. Legal barriers to divorce have fallen away — couples needed permission from their employers until just four years ago — […]
Read MoreThe Guardian reports on a new highway network that will reconnect countries along the old Silk Road: China is at the heart of the network. In addition to existing roads, it is building more than 10,000 miles of new highways. The push into central Asia is making some of the world’s most remote regions more […]
Read MorePacific Times on KQED had a report tonight about U.S.-China relations: Capitalists see China, with its 1.3 billion people, as a market hungry for goods and services. But it’s also a source of worry for those competing with the world’s largest factory. Thirty-six years after President Nixon visited China, you can now catch a nonstop […]
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