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From the New York Times: Next week the Nederlanders, one of the big three Broadway theater owners, are planning to announce the details of a new company they have formed that, among other things, will present and market tours and live entertainment in China. But the entry of the Nederlanders into the Asian market is […]
Read MoreForeign Policy reports on potential tensions between China and the U.S. over both countries’ interests in Africa: For years, China has been offering loans, building critical infrastructure, and providing engineering and military advice and hardware to African regimes without extracting any promises that the regimes clean up their human rights records”something Western countries insist upon […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: A group of Shanghai residents has written to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to ask for her support in their fight to stop the extension of the maglev train line. While some of them are worried about finding somewhere to live in time and how they will be compensated, those who are […]
Read MoreSpiegel Online has posted a story summarizing the recent history of the Falun Gong movement in China: But the movement has refused to fold. A constant thorn in the party’s side, it has responded to repression with a series of unusual protests. In 2002, Li’s disciples manipulated the signals of a Chinese TV satellite and […]
Read MoreFrom the China Media Project: The head of China’s top print media regulating agency said yesterday that newly emerging media platforms like Weblogs have “already drawn attention from relevant government offices” and stressed they would soon be brought under their supervision with the help of new management regulations on Internet publishing, according to the Beijing […]
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