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From Washington Monthly: In May 2002, ten months before he became president of China, Hu Jintao visited Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon. The meeting, as then-Vice President Hu saw it, had gone well. Routine U.S.-Chinese military-to-military contacts, which had been suspended since 2001 after a tense standoff over a damaged U.S. spy plane, were to […]
Read MoreFrom an editorial in South Africa’s Business Day: It is only recently that China and SA have sought to broaden their relationship. Wen’s visit, the first official one to SA by a Chinese prime minister, holds out prospects as well as challenges. It will help build ties and perhaps give impetus to, among other things, […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: Emergency surgery on a leading activist for the rights of farmers displaced by China’s Three Gorges Dam appears to have saved his life but Fu Xiancai is unlikely ever to walk again. His neck was broken by unknown attackers as he walked home from a police interrogation on 8 June. “He had […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: China’s judiciary is to set up a system to expose interference from local party and administrative officials in court decisions. A notice jointly issued by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, the Supreme People’s Court and the Ministry of Supervision ordered courts to report swiftly any […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The search engines of two of the most popular Web portals on the mainland have been blocked in a sign of intensified internet censorship, with millions of users expected to be affected. Sina and Sohu are the latest victims of Beijing’s increasing control of the internet […]
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