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From Forbes.com: China said it would send its chief negotiator on the North Korean nuclear issue to Pyongyang next week while stressing that it was making ‘unremitting efforts’ to resolve the crisis. Deputy foreign minister Wu Dawei will travel to Pyongyang on Monday as part of a delegation to attend celebrations for the 45th anniversary […]
Read MoreFrom Treehugger.com: Chinese developers have unveiled the world’s first permanent magnetic levitation wind power generator at the Wind Power Asia Exhibition 2006 in Beijing. The device is called a MagLev generator, and is being regarded as a key breakthrough in the evolution of global wind power technology. The generator was jointly developed by Guangzhou Energy […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: As capitalism transforms this nominally communist nation, it has quietly reshaped the lives of China’s rural young, creating a new underclass called liu shou er tong, or the “left-behind children.” An entire generation is growing up without parents in deserted villages populated mostly by the very young and elderly. Here […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Housing privatization in Chinese cities, which only began in the early 1990s, has proceeded at an amazingly fast pace. After a mere 10-plus years, more than 80% of Chinese urbanites now own their dwellings. While the Chinese media boasts that the proportion of private housing in Chinese cities is now higher than […]
Read MoreFrom Slate.com, via Howard French’s A Glimpse of the World blog: One of the most bruising critiques of China’s emerging role in the global economy holds that the nation is not only taking the jobs of manufacturing workers in rich countries, but is also simultaneously battering the livelihoods of workers in the poorest regions of […]
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