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From the Los Angeles Times: Global commerce is neatly wrapped for Christmas on the streets of Toytown. In cardboard boxes. Thousands of the corrugated containers filled with Chinese-made vinyl dolls, plastic action figures, electronic gadgets, video games, clothing and die-cast cars pour daily into wholesale and retail toy shops in a dozen-block area on the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Pressure on Western firms to improve conditions at factories in China is paying off, experts say, with some firms granting workers rights that are still taboo for most employees in the Communist state. After being faced with boycotts in the 1990s, many foreign companies adopted stricter labour codes to counter accusations by consumers […]
Read MoreFrom the Sunday Times: They have been banned, censored, gagged and imprisoned. They have suffered, mentally and physically, for their art. But, as China has opened its arms to the West in the past 10 years, and relaxed its cultural stranglehold, Chinese artists’ fight for expression has finally paid off. An emerging generation of YCAs […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Hundreds of villagers incited by a few instigators violently attacked a wind power plant on Dec. 6, and assaulted the police, the Information Office of the city government of Shanwei in south China’s Guangdong Province said here Saturday. In an investigation report of the incident, the office called the armed assault a serious […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Some hot topics come and go: the End of History; Imperial Overstretch; Europe as Venus, the US as Mars. And some keep coming back, sometimes after long pauses. The Rise of China is back, with a vengeance, in...
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