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From the Los Angeles Times: Along a scenic beach where fishermen mend their nets by hand, an endless row of storefronts stretches into the distance, all selling the same thing. Not sunscreen, umbrellas or cold drinks. Land. Never mind that the area is home to a violent separatist movement, or that foreigners are regarded with […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: China’s installed wind-power generation capacity is likely to top five mln kilowatts next year, two years ahead of what was envisaged in the national development plan, Xinhua news agency reported. It cited an industry official Li Junfeng as saying that wind power is developing rapidly in China and that installed capacity would surely […]
Read MoreThe New York Times Magazine looks at the education system in China through the lens of a former student superstar there now studying at Harvard: Even as American educators seek to emulate Asian pedagogy ” a test-centered ethos and a rigorous focus on math, science and engineering ” Chinese educators are trying to blend a […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The arrests in Shanghai were part of Hu’s cautious but relentless drive to cement his power as party leader and ensure faithfulness to his vision up and down the hierarchy. That effort, foreign and Chinese specialists said, will reach a high point at the 17th Party Congress in the fall, when […]
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