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From Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: China’s economists are grappling with the significance of the country’s economic size after gross domestic product (GDP) was officially restated as being much larger than previously thought. They are warning that, while the country’s bigger and more mature status is winning accolades from investment banks, the new picture […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: THE Chinese Foreign Minister embarked yesterday on his first tour of a year in which he will rack up tens of thousands of air miles in pursuit of increasingly scarce natural resources to fuel the world’s fastest growing large economy. Over the next ten days, Li Zhaoxing will regale the leaders of […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax China: In the wake of further bird flu outbreaks in China, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said yesterday in Shanghai that global cooperation is needed to control the impact of a possible avian flu pandemic. “When you are thirsty it is too late to dig the well,” Mineta said quoting an old Chinese […]
Read MoreESWN has translated most of an investigative report into the Dongzhou killings by a Chinese human rights group, Chinese Rights Defenders (ÂÖ¨Ê∞ëÁª¥ÊùÉÔºâ„ÄÇ The original Chinese version is here: On December 6, the Guangdong province Shanwei city government sent out armed policemen to use firearms to suppress Dongzhou villagers, causing many casualties. When the news came […]
Read MoreFrom the Global Journalist: Recently released Internet dissident Huang Qi emerged from a five-year incarceration to witness that the Chinese Web had also suffered. Huang, first detained in 2000, angered officials with his Web site, which tracked down people missing after the 1989 pro-democracy movement. From 2000 to 2005, the party enforced surveillance of Web […]
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