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From Time Asia (link): In the fall of 1991, at the age of 18, Yiyun Li reported to the barren city of Xinyang for a year in the Chinese army. The government had decreed that any student bound for Beijing’s Peking University, as Li was, first had to complete a period of military training and […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune (link): Call it displacement, call it rise and fall, or trading places, or what have you, there is something hugely important taking place in East Asia – a palpable shift in the relative positions of Japan and China. Sure, you can see this shift in the statistics, which show Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune (link): Faced with rising inequality and unrest in the countryside, the Chinese government has formally announced major initiatives to expand health, education and welfare benefits for farmers but left unresolved the fundamental issue of whether farmers should be allowed to buy or sell their land. […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): Japan’s relations with China are at a lower point than at any time since the two countries normalised relations in 1972 and they are getting worse. Leaders in Japan who argue otherwise are trying to fool the public, or they are fooling themselves. The spiralling downward of political relations comes […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post, the next installment in Philip Pan’s Great Firewall of China Series (link): A state-run newspaper reported Tuesday that Google Inc. is under investigation for operating without a proper license in China and quoted an unnamed government official as saying the Internet giant needs to cooperate further with the authorities in blocking […]
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