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The recent election in Zambia is an indication of a rising backlash against China’s recent surge of activity in Africa. From the New York Times: Zambia’s wildest and most entertaining presidential campaign in memory staggered to a finish on Thursday as voters chose between the wooden incumbent, Levy Mwanawasa, and a silver-tongued populist who pledged […]
Read MoreXinhua reports: China will open 300 new drug needle exchange centers by the end of the year amid efforts to curb high rates of HIV infection among intravenous drug users. At the end of 2005, the country had 91 free needle exchange centers, according to China’s Ministry of Health. About 44.3 percent of the estimated […]
Read MoreESWN has translated an article that appeared on Chinese News Net, with the following explanation: “This essay was originally scheduled to be published in the September 28, 2006 issue of Southern Weekend but was withdrawn for some reason. There is no explanation about how the essay then ended up on an overseas Chinese website.”: Under […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor, a report on the harassment of independent candidates running for local People’s Congress positions: The polls closed at noon and by 2 p.m. Yao Lifa was hunkered down inside a restaurant with a group of first-time candidates, waiting to hear who had been elected to their local assembly. Mr. Yao […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The Chinese government said Wednesday that it had disciplined two officials for illegally seizing farmland, two days after it removed the party chief of Shanghai on corruption charges. The actions, coming little more than a week before a key Chinese Communist Party meeting, have prompted speculation that President Hu Jintao […]
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