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From Deutsche Presse-Agentur, via monstersandcritics.com (link): President Hu Jintao made it clear just before a high-profile meeting with President George W Bush: China will not be pressured into helping the United States slim its huge trade gap. Hu’s rebuff of US calls to make China’s currency more expensive could hardly have surprised Bush, who was […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent (link): OH, NOT The Art of War again. When President Hu of China meets President Bush today he will hand him a copy of the classic work on military strategy by Sun Tzu, the Chinese 6th-century philosopher, according to the South China Morning Post. The book, a favourite gift in diplomatic encounters, […]
Read MoreFrom Three Gorges Probe (link): Wang Yongchen, Beijing-based journalist and founder of the environmental group Green Earth Volunteers, travelled recently to the Nu River valley in Yunnan province, southwest China, where exploration activity is under way for a string of controversial hydro dams. She wanted to find out what local people have been told about […]
Read MoreFrom CNet News (link): Yahoo may have helped Chinese police identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the third such case, an advocacy group for journalists said Wednesday. News implicating Yahoo in the imprisonment of Jiang Lijun in 2003 surfaced on the eve of a summit between Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Policy Magazine (link): Beijing’s investment in Africa dates back some six centuries, when explorers set off from Asia across the Indian Ocean. More recently, during the early years of the Cold War, Beijing lined up supporters for its “one China” policy on Taiwan by dangling aid as a carrot. China has often played […]
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