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From Reuters, via the Washington Post: A Chinese civil rights campaigner who was assaulted by thugs this week was unreachable and appeared to have gone missing on Wednesday after announcing plans to stage a hunger strike outside Beijing’s leadership compound. Yang Maodong’s activism set him on a collision course with the Communist Party, which has […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: China’s growth has sparked a global race with the West for markets and industrial resources. Africa has become a frontier of opportunity for the world’s most populous country and its fastest growing economy. That has meant opportunity, aid and even key diplomatic support _ China is a veto-wielding […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Chinese Internet mavens wasted no time expressing their ire at Google for its participation in the censorship…. But for all of their disappointment, many observers of recent changes in Chinese society say the news of Google’s concessions to censorship will do little to reverse a trend toward increasingly free expression […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: The Pentagon’s new Quadrennial Defense Review makes the first formal step in designating China the number one enemy. Most coverage of the QDR has focused on the planned growth of special operations forces, its hardware decisions, and its articulation of a “long war” against terrorism. But buried in the hard-to-penetrate bureaucratize […]
Read More“Ha Ha Ha America,” a 17-minute film shown at the Sundance Film Festival this year, is described as a “translated harangue from China to the U.S.A. that laughs at our missteps.” It is available for viewing in its entirety on the Sundance website.
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