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From The Useless Tree blog (link): Thirty years ago today a crowd of people gathered in Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. They were ostensibly mourning the death of Zhou Enlai, the longstanding Prime Minister who had died in January. A formal public commemoration had been blocked by Zhou’s political enemies, led by the […]
Read MoreESWN has translated an article (link) by prominent Chinese journalist and former managing editor of Southern Weekend, Qian Gang, about the connections between Liu Binyan and the restructuring of Freezing Point: Number 2, Ocean Transport Warehouse, Dongzhimen South Little Street, Beijing, is the address of China Youth Daily. There is half a century between 1956 […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia (link): In 1999, officials in the city of Zhongshan decided to tear down a shipyard and replace it with a park. The city, situated across the mouth of the Pearl River from Hong Kong, has a tradition of putting its wealth to good civic use: its tidy streets are adorned with banks […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times (link): Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov’s six days in China represent a long time for an authoritarian leader who is known to dislike leaving his presidential palace unoccupied for very long. The length of his stay, his third to China, highlights the importance that Turkmenbashi, as he is known, places on developing his […]
Read MoreFrom the FInancial Times (link): Amid all the squeals in Washington at the yawning US trade deficit with China, one strikes a specially resonant political chord: that unfair Chinese competition is annihilating US manufacturing industry and “stealing American jobs”. The assertion is so common it has assumed the status of fact. Yet it is almost […]
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