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From the New York Times Science Section: Ever since 1989, in a collection of buildings occupying about a city block in Beijing, Chinese physicists have been quietly shooting electrons and their evil-twin opposites ” positrons ” around a 80-yard-diameter underground track at nearly the speed of light, and then banging them together in little fireballs […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for this translation and commentary on documents pertaining to the recent trial of reproductive rights activist Chen Guangcheng. For more details on Chen’s trial, see a detailed statement from Chinese Human Rights Defenders. David Cowhig writes: Defense lawyers for Shandong family planning rights activist Chen Guangcheng, accused of incitement […]
Read MoreIn Commentary Magazine, Gordon G. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, writes his view of the prospects for serious unrest in China as reforms continue to take hold: Although, in theory, authoritarian systems are inherently fragile and eventually fall apart, the People’s Republic of China is now widely considered to be both resilient […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China and the Vatican exchanged renewed criticisms over the weekend about China’s selection of a new bishop over the Vatican’s objections, but there were hints on each side that the dispute might be papered over in the months ahead. China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs, while describing Rome’s objections as […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: A wet nurse is a status symbol and young mothers are being lured by the promise of up to eight times their existing salary to breastfeed offspring of the rich. “At first I had my doubts, but the money convinced me,” said a wet nurse known as Madam Gu. “Now I earn […]
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