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The Christian Science Monitor reports on the closure of schools for the kids of migrant workers in Beijing: Standing in the ruins of the school he founded seven years ago to educate the children of Beijing’s migrant workforce, Wang Yi seems at a loss for words. His feet crunch on pulverized concrete and nuggets of […]
Read MoreFrom the Sunday Times: As he promotes Western-style notions of governance in China, Thornton faces a business culture in transition. The government, run by the Communist party, still controls a vast swath of the economy and has no intention of giving up its control ” particularly in strategic industries such as telecommunications. The government owns […]
Read MoreFrom the China Elections and Governance website: These days it does not need a pundit to tell us that corruption, if not controlled, is a serious matter endangering China’s stability and long-term economic development. Barely a day goes by without hearing a corruption scandal erupting here or there. All told, the Chinese Communist Party in […]
Read MoreTo mark the 30th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death, Beijing Review asked three scholars to discuss Mao’s legacy: China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976, caused an estimated one million unnatural deaths, writes the reviewer Judith Shapiro. It is widely viewed as one of history’s most horrific political cataclysms. Yet there […]
Read MoreOn CNet News, Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Business Software Alliance, writes about a recent survey undertaken in China by his company: While China’s economy has grown largely on the strength of its manufacturing base, the country increasingly aspires to be a leader in higher-value fields. Those aspirations have led many around the […]
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