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The Comedy Central fake news pundit show, The Colbert Report, is celebrating the Year of the Pig with a special China report. In one segment, Colbert introduces his new term for the China-U.S. relationship: “Frenemy” (“The biggest way that China is our friend is that they are our enemy”). He also interviews journalist Sheryl WuDunn. […]
Read MoreBBC reports on a new anti-corruption drive which will extend out to the provinces to rein in local officials: In 2006, about 97,000 officials were found guilty of bribe-taking or breaching financial rules. The figure is down on 2005. But despite the fall, most people in China, including the party leadership, believe corruption is endemic […]
Read MoreThree Gorges Probe translated and posted an abridged version of an article that ran in the Guangzhou Daily: Everybody knows the Yangtze River has long been troubled by floods, but nobody knows when exactly it became gripped by a new problem: drought. Normally, July and August are the peak months of the flood season. But […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: But, strangely enough, the big strategic questions about China’s emergence as a great power remain pretty much the same. Will China have a “peaceful rise”, as its officials insist? Or will growing Chinese power and ambition one day bring the country into conflict with the US or Japan? How serious is […]
Read MoreForeign Policy in Focus has a report on the global effects of China’s severe air and water pollution, which is now traveling as far as the west coast of the U.S.: Information on Chinese emissions is sketchy since the government has not publicly disclosed CO2 or mercury emissions data since 2001. The most commonly cited […]
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