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From the Washington Post (link): President Chen Shui-bian declared Monday that he will soon open debate on a new constitution for Taiwan, including the explosive issues of sovereignty, territory and formal independence for the self-ruled island. But Chen, who has incurred the wrath of China and the irritation of the United States over his relentless […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian (link): The US is being swept by a rush to learn Mandarin, the official form of the language used in mainland China. From wealthy New York mothers hiring Chinese nannies for their toddlers, to west coast parents demanding classes from their local schools to a defence department education project in Oregon. The […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune (link): But alongside what often seems like a one-note U.S. agenda of fighting terrorism, Indonesia and Australia, the next stop on Rice’s journey, have another overriding interest. It can be summed up in one word: China. For Indonesia and Australia, proximity to China is all. For them, China is not […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): Long Yongtu, the diplomat who negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation, has urged western governments to stop politicising trade and start telling their voters the truth about globalisation. He said that some politicians in Europe and North America had been blaming China for problems in their own economies […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor (link): An underground video sweeping Chinese cyberspace has half the country cracking up. Titled “A Murder Caused by Mantou,” the video is a spoof of a new film, “The Promise,” by famed director Chen Kaige. Using satiric elements similar to Monty Python and the Simpsons, the spoof has flooded cyberspace […]
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