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In the New York Times, actor Richard Gere, who is also Chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet, wrote an op-ed about the new Qinghai-Tibet Railway: THE opening this month of the final segment of world’s highest railway, from Beijing to Lhasa, Tibet, is a staggering engineering achievement and a testimony to the developing greatness […]
Read MoreThe Levitator blog has posted a photo series about a “petitioners’ village” in Beijing, taken from a documentary which has been posted online. The full documentary is available to download here. From The Levitator (found via Peking Duck): China has a unique system for handling official malfeasance – the “letters and visits” or petition system. […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: The membership of the monopoly Communist Party that rules China is more idealistic, accomplished, creative, capable, earnest and truth-seeking than before, has greater faith, boasts improved capabilities and is of a higher quality. That’s the party’s selfassessment outlined Thursday at the conclusion of an 18-month education campaign designed to “maintain […]
Read MoreFrom Deutsche Presse-Agentur: Fuelled by its economic growth and armed with a new sense of self-confidence, China now counts itself among the powerful nations of the world and is eager to assert its global authority among the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations. ‘China and the G8 countries are each important players in the international […]
Read MoreAn apartment building near Dongzhimen in Beijing, by Natalie Behring.
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