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From Asia Times: While Santa Claus lives it up with Rudolph at the North Pole, his elves have relocated to southern China’s towns and villages. Some 70% of the world’s Christmas ornaments and other paraphernalia now originate in officially atheist mainland China. Tinsel, Santas, mistletoe and artificial trees of every shape and hue are churned […]
Read MoreNPR’s Talk of the Nation interviewed Elizabeth Economy for today’s program: Critics say that China’s rapid economic growth leads to pollution in the air and water, and leaves mountains of untreated waste. In one recent incident, an explosion at a Chinese chemical plant spilled benzene into a major river, cutting off the water supply to […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The prop plane packed with businessmen swoops into this once sleepy oasis town in far western China, flying in low over the spectacular Tian Shan mountain range, now snowcapped. At the tiny, primitive airport here, where people have to wait outdoors in the biting cold for their luggage, a billboard […]
Read MoreFrom Prospect Magazine: I had been plotting my return to China for about a year, and now an invitation from Lanxin Xiang, author of a book on the Boxer rebellion, to lecture in Shanghai in September 2005 made it possible. I say “return,” because the last time I had been on the mainland was in […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: As a long-time student of US policies and attitudes towards China, I am always amazed at one enduring element I call the China Exception. Presidents can come and go; Congress can be led by either the Democrats or the Republicans; but China has always been viewed with a special eye by Americans. […]
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