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From the Observer: Kidney patients who need a transplant in Britain are being targeted by a medical group offering them new organs taken from executed Chinese prisoners. The horrifying trade in human organs has been revealed by British surgeons who say patients are being tempted abroad, but may not fully understand the dangers or the […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe: Zhang Bijian, a senior adviser to President Hu Jintao, is the chief architect of China’s “peaceful rise” policy and chairman of the China Reform Forum, a government-associated think tank. In a recent interview with Jehangir S. Pocha, a Globe correspondent in Beijing, Zhang explained why he thinks China’s growing influence will […]
Read MoreFrom Knight Ridder, via Mercury News: One can only imagine the shock that the Great Helmsman would feel if he came back to life and strolled through China’s cities. But that misses the broader point: Whatever the Chinese Communist Party’s orientation, it retains Mao’s propensity for authoritarian rule and uses him as a buttress to […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China has prosecuted and punished nearly 50,000 corrupt officials at various levels in the on-going nationwide anti-corruption drive in the recent two years, said a senior official with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. The Chinese government and law enforcement organs have made vigorous and continuous efforts in combating corruption, said Wang Zhenchuan, deputy procurator-general […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: After almost a decade of explosive growth in its electronics industry, China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest supplier of information technology goods, according to a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Data in the report due to be published Monday show that China’s […]
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