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The Guardian reports on the frosty welcome President Hu Jintao received during his recent visit to Zambia: Hostility is such in some quarters that the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, on an eight-country tour of Africa to promote Beijing’s blossoming trade relationship with the continent, cancelled plans to launch a $200m (¬£100m) smelter at a Chinese-owned […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, an update on AIDS activist Gao Yaojie, who has been held at her home to prevent her from traveling to the U.S. to receive an award: The U.S. Embassy in the Chinese capital has raised the issue with the Foreign Ministry, but ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said she knew nothing of Gao’s case. […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: With hordes of foreign visitors expected in town for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing wants to cleanse its signs of translation nonsense. For the next eight months, 10 teams of linguistic monitors will patrol the city’s parks, museums, subway stations and other public places searching for gaffes to fix. Already, […]
Read MoreJournalist and author James Mann recently testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, where he presented his view that political change in China is not inevitable and the U.S. should stop treating it as such: In our dealing with China, the problem of the wrong paradigm comes from the opposite direction. It’s not […]
Read MoreThe Economist reports on how local officials are finding they can benefit from the presence of temples and other religious institutions in their jurisdictions: Many local governments in rural China are mired in debt. Recent central government efforts to keep peasants happy by abolishing centuries-old taxes have not made life any easier for these bureaucracies. […]
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