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From the Toronto Star, another review of Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals: Mao’s goals in the Cultural Revolution were threefold: to restore his position as unrivalled leader, to cut down his rivals and to ensure a “revolutionary successor generation” that would keep China on a Marxist path. To achieve those goals, […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: In Beijing, you are not allowed to set the air conditioning below 28C, the street lighting in the suburbs around the city has solar panels attached and the athletes in the Olympic village being built for the 2008 Games will all power-shower using renewable energy. Laudable though that may sound, Beijing’s environmental […]
Read MoreIn The Observer, David Smith reports from the U.N.-sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Athens: This time there was no hiding place. Countries accused of turning the internet into a tool of repression – and the companies accused of helping them do it – were confronted with the full force of international condemnation at a special […]
Read MoreMore coverage of the China-Africa summit now ongoing in Beijing. From the New York Times: China’s enthusiasm for Africa has raised concerns among many in the West while the United States is distracted by its efforts to curb terrorism, and France, Britain and other former colonial powers exert less influence in Africa than they once […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent, a look at how the retrial in rights activist Chen Guangcheng’s case has encouraged those hoping for legal reform in China: Chen Guangcheng, the blind “barefoot lawyer” and activist who was jailed in August, had become a byword for the failings of the Chinese justice system – locked up for over four […]
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