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From The Australian (link): CHINA has underestimated the amount of new power generation it will need to meet demand, according to a report that estimates an extra $US180 billion ($243 billion) will have to be spent by 2020. International consultancy Capgemini has forecast that the country will need another 280 gigawatts of electricity generation by […]
Read MoreThanks to China analyst David Cowhig for sending the following commentary into CDT: The February 23 issue of the Economist mentions an article in the February 10, 2006 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) that traces the spread of H5N1 after its establishment in southern China a decade ago […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Chinese police have rounded up at least eight democracy campaigners involved in hunger strikes that have spread to more than 16 provinces, a leading activist said on Friday. Most of those detained in the past 10 days had gone on hunger strikes to protest what they call increasingly violent harassment of dissidents […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio (link): Chinese collectors and corporations are using their new wealth to buy back some of the thousands of China’s art treasures that have been lost overseas, plundered in war and stolen by tomb robbers. One company has made this its specialty: the Poly Corporation, which started as an arms trading branch […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder, via San Jose Mercury News (link): The latest weapons in the tussle between China and Taiwan are cuddly and adorable and do little all day but chew bamboo and frolic. China has offered two giant pandas to Taiwan as a goodwill gesture. It has named the two pandas Tuantuan and Yuanyuan, a […]
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