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From the New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World blog (link): For months now, Caitrin McKiernan has gone from place to place in this city to ask Chinese people an unlikely question: What does the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. mean to you? The questions don’t end there, either. […]
Read MoreFrom DNAIndia.com (link): To most observers, the period in China when the Cultural Revolution played itself out horribly was a ‘lost decade’, a black hole in the country’s history. During this period, millions of people were killed or driven to suicide as Chairman Mao Zedong’s foot soldiers moved ruthlessly and recklessly to seize power within […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC (link): US industrial giant General Electric has struck a deal with the Chinese government to invest $50m (¬£27m) on developing green technologies. GE, which employs 13,000 people in mainland China, said energy efficiency and water filtration were among the projects to be developed. GE’s Chinese unit currently brings in revenues of $5bn […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link): By instinct and training, we journalists are skeptics about religious activists. Their appeals are seen in newsrooms as special pleadings from organized interest groups. Editors reinforce reporters’ instincts to treat religion politely but suspiciously. Ours is a secular trade honoring information more than faith. This professional dichotomy ran through my […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times (link): The Chinese are coming! They are invading the Far East! If headlines in the new and free – but often sensational and irresponsible – Russian press are to be believed, a massive influx of Chinese into Siberia and the Russian Far East is turning the area “yellow” and Russia is about […]
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