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From the Washington Post: Every time newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube visits his native Zimbabwe, he said, there seem to be more Chinese. He sees them shopping at boutiques, driving fancy cars, picking up their children from elite private schools. And as in much of Africa, Ncube said, China’s reach into Zimbabwe’s economy is equally pervasive: […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The theatrical aspects of Taiwan politics can be an embarrassment for those who see the island republic as a beacon of liberal democracy. But perhaps more worrying is not what happens on the public stage but the behind-the-scene deals which inhibit good government. Conversely, although cross-straits tensions with the mainland […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: In the mid-19th century Karl Marx claimed that European colonisers, though corrupt and violent, were the “unconscious tool of history” that would propel India and China into modernity. He described the backward “Asiatic mode of production”, defined by the absence of private ownership and the presence of a rigid, centralised form of […]
Read MoreFrom the Times Online: The vice-mayor of Beijing overseeing the construction of Olympic venues for the 2008 Games has built himself a pleasure palace filled with young concubines on the outskirts of the city. Details of Liu Zhihua’s colourful private life emerged today after he was sacked from his post when a foreign businessman reported […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The advertising market of China’s print media is now threatened by Internet portals, search engines and other websites, just like everywhere else in the world, so much so that some large newspaper groups are trying to form an alliance to boycott the provision of content to Internet news providers, in a desperate […]
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