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From AP, via ABCNews.com: More than 6,000 people died in accidents in China’s coal mines and petroleum industries last year, with the proportion of those killed in major disasters rising sharply, the government reported Friday. The number of total fatalities from 3,341 coal mine explosions, fires and floods was 5,986, nearly level with the 6,027 […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China and India have emerged as the big winners — and Russia and Germany as the top losers — in the first round of a broad restructuring of U.S. diplomatic posts ordered by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice announced plans last month to shift hundreds of Foreign Service positions from […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times, via Asia Media: The hype about China’s future is unremitting. Indeed, there is a growing sense in some quarters that China is the future. There are two ways of highlighting this “fact.” One is to recount China’s rapid economic growth over the last two decades and to conclude that, with this […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: By 2050 China will have eradicated poverty, established itself as a world power in science and lifted the average lifespan of its billion-plus citizens to 80 years, according to two blueprints for the future published yesterday. Even by the standards of a country that has a passion for long-term economic plans, the […]
Read MoreFreedom House just published a new report titled “Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China.” The full report is available to download here (PDF file): State control over the news media in China is achieved through a complex combination of party monitoring of news content, legal restrictions on journalists, and financial incentives for […]
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