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From Asia Times: On the surface, relations between India and China are positive. India’s economic ties with China are booming. China is set to emerge as India’s leading trade partner in the near future, leaving its current No 1 partner, the United States, behind. Between 2000 and 2005, trade with China registered a hike of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: More than four-fifths of the wetlands along northern China’s biggest river system have dried up because of over-development, the state media reported yesterday in the latest warning of the dire environmental consequences of the country’s economic growth. Fifty years ago, the Haihe river and its tributaries formed an ecologically rich area that […]
Read MoreFrom journalism.co.uk: The BBC World Service has rubbished claims that a new language-learning site for China is offering politically neutral content to bypass government censorship. A story published on 3 February by the Financial Times (FT) described the content of BBCChina.com.cn as ‘studiously uncontroversial’, avoiding any of the corporation’s hard-hitting news coverage so the site […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Many of China’s major museums have begun constructing digital clones of themselves in the form of websites and producing twin-language exhibition catalogues as the country evolves into a global high-tech and cultural power. But in etching out their images in cyberspace as part of China’s “digital museum project,” some art centres have […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Buckets are inseparable from the life and work of 32-year-old poet Liu Dongwu. Liu is chief editor of Nanfeiyan, a literary magazine based in Dongguan, South China’s Guangdong Province. The name translates as “wild goose flying southward.” Liu has managed to rise to literary fame from his hard beginnings as a migrant […]
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