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From Seed Magazine: For decades, China was barely a blip on the scientific radar. Communism’s arbitrary appointments, combined with the Cultural Revolution’s disdain for education, crippled Chinese science. But today China is in the midst of a scientific revolution. China’s current economic and political strategy, as named by President Hu Jintao at a recent Central […]
Read MoreFrom the Cato Institute: China’s emergence from centuries of isolation and stagnation is one of the great stories of our time. The world’s most populous nation has rejoined the global economy. As Bush and other visitors to China see firsthand, hundreds of millions of citizens there are beginning to taste the rewards of middle-class life […]
Read MoreFrom IEEE Spectrum: This year, a somewhat startling experiment in digital television transmission has been unfolding in Qingdao, the seaside town in northeastern China best known to outsiders as the place where Tsingtao beer is brewed. The town is completing a government-supported project to convert 600 000 of its downtown households to digital cable television, […]
Read MoreFrom IEEE Spectrum: In 1494, upon Christopher Columbus’s return to Europe, delegates from Spain and Portugal met in the Spanish village of Tordesillas to divide the New World. In accord with an earlier papal decree, Portugal asserted dominion over what we now know as Brazil, while Spain claimed the rest of the Americas. However, they […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via CBC: A Chinese city of 480,000 people has become the latest community to shut down a water plant as river-borne toxins from an industrial accident flowed toward it, an official said Saturday. The shutdown Friday in Jiamusi came as China’s chief environmental regulator resigned, taking the blame for the Nov. 13 […]
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