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From the BBC: The death of the last remaining member of the “Gang of Four“, Yao Wenyuan, ends one of the most troubled chapters in China’s modern history. But many in China, especially those are too young to remember it themselves, know very little about the persecution and bloodshed orchestrated by Mao Zedong’s Gang of […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: Microsoft Corp said it was acting in line with global laws when it deleted a Chinese web blog hosted on its MSN Spaces service which posted articles critical of a management purge at a Beijing newspaper. ‘As a multi-national business, Microsoft operates in countries around the world. In line with Microsoft […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: …With Beijing due to host the 2008 Olympics, the next few years are being seen as offering China a chance to show that it is more than just the world’s centre of manufacturing industry. Films will play a major part in that drive, but they are not the only focus. China has […]
Read MoreFrom the American Enterprise Institute (via Peking Duck): The most recent Federal Reserve estimates suggest that the US productivity machine is humming and that US economic potential growth is likely to be about 3 per cent for the foreseeable future. This would be not only a triumph for free-market economics but would place the US […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: Her parents are caucasian Americans, her home is a $1 million villa on the Hudson River and her favorite place to play is a swing in the yard. But when Hilton Augusta Rogers, aged 2, swings through the air on sunny mornings she doesn’t express her joy in English. “Geng gao,” she […]
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