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With the idea in mind that, “if you take your eyes off China for even a few days, a lot can change,” Time Magazine has launched a “China Blog,” with contributions from their China-based reporters: Simon Elegant, Bill Powell, Austin Ramzy, and Susan Jakes. Read it here.
Read MoreFrom China This Week blog: A 67-meter-high building near the West Lake in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province falls down after the demolition blast went off on January 6, 2006. The 22-storey building, also the highest building near the West Lake, was torn down successfully Saturday, causing no casualty. It served as the […]
Read MoreThe Observer excerpts “The Writing on the Wall,” a new book by Will Hutton, formerly editor of the Observer and economics editor of the Guardian: China is the new factor in global politics and economics, and its rulers and people know it. It now has more than $1 trillion of foreign exchange reserves, the world’s […]
Read MoreTaipei Times reports on the sacking of Huang Liangtian, editor of Baixing magazine: The editor of a popular Chinese publication yesterday said that he was fired after reporting widely on corruption, driving home the fact that new relaxed rules on foreign journalists do not apply to locals. Huang Liangtian, 50, was sacked after transforming Baixing […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, another article about China’s promotion of Chinese language training through government-sponsored Confucius Institutes, this one focusing on concerns that the institutes are primarily channels to promote government propaganda: What do New York, Hawaii, Kansas, California, Mexico, France, Serbia, South Korea, Egypt, Australia, Russia, and Rwanda have in common? Almost nothing, […]
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