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From The Standard: China has reacted angrily to US comments about the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, telling the United States not to interfere in Beijing’s internal affairs and pay attention to its own human rights problems. “China is strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposes the US statement on [the] Tiananmen incident,” said foreign ministry spokesman Liu […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: A FIERCE internal debate in China between economic reformers and new leftists opposed to the rush to embrace capitalism finally burst into the public eye yesterday. The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party that has ruled China since 1949, ran a commentary that left no room for questions over the […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Even as the main dam of the mammoth Three Gorges reservoir, the world’s largest hydroelectric project, was completed in late May several months ahead of schedule, China is gearing up to launch another massive Yangtze River dam-building project. Sandwiched between the towering majesty of the Jade Dragon and Haba Snow Mountains in […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Chinese authorities have postponed an informal trial date for a New York Times researcher accused of fraud and disclosing state secrets, his lawyer said today. The researcher, Zhao Yan, 44, who worked in the Beijing bureau of The New York Times, was preliminarily scheduled to stand trial on June 8. […]
Read MoreFrom the Telegraph blog: Westerners are incredibly oblivious of popular trends in China, sometimes. There’s a famous story about Faye Wong (aka Wang Fei), another Beijing-born actress-cum-pop star who made her name in Hong Kong, and the time she moved into one of the new, mainly expat, luxury housing compounds near the airport. At the […]
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