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From the New York Times: A government environmental review has recommended reducing the number of dams included in a controversial hydropower proposal on the Nu River in southwestern China in order to limit environmental damage and decrease the number of people who would be resettled, a Hong Kong newspaper has reported. The newspaper, Wen Wei […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: A recent survey shows that the newly rich in China are younger than ever. A study conducted by the Cenozoic Market Supervision Organization shows that 60 percent of the newly rich in China were born in the 1970s and are well-educated. The survey also categorizes the newly rich, aged from 18 to 45, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Australian: China’s Communist Party vigilantly guards its history, but this year the country must navigate a cascade of traumatic anniversaries of Mao Zedong’s rule that may provoke debate over its censored past. Forty years ago, in May 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, the tumultuous mass campaign that spiralled into a […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: WHEN Margaret Jones, the first Herald correspondent to be assigned to China, moved into a 15-storey apartment block in central Beijing in 1974, the yellow-and-white building was the acme of modernity in the Chinese capital. The city’s first high-rise built to earthquake-proof standards, it and another matching tower in the […]
Read MoreFrom a Los Angeles Times editorial: CHINA IS AN EASY TARGET for our economic grumbling. It is ruled by a Communist Party. Its currency, the yuan, does not float freely. It often looks like a monolithic machine, with factories of assembly-line workers churning out low-cost goods to fund its march toward world domination. It has […]
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