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From AP: China called bird flu a “serious epidemic” and pledged to step up measures to fight the deadly virus Tuesday as officials announced three new outbreaks of the disease in the country’s poultry. The outbreaks were detected last week in western and southern China, resulting in the killing of nearly 175,000 birds, the official […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Daily News: Now could be the time for China to throw its weight around for the good of the world and come out an ecological hero of epic proportions. This is far from impossible. The necessary elements are right there. The Chinese giant could clean up its image, get the best […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Independent (Bangladesh): Slowly but surely, China is executing a shift in tax and spending policies to help meet its goal of rebalancing growth from investment to consumption. Worried by a widening rich-poor gap that could undermine stability, Beijing has already stepped up spending on social security and scrapped agricultural taxes. It […]
Read MoreFrom a Washington Post editorial: President Bush spoke up yesterday for democracy in Mongolia, a poor, windswept nation of 2.4 million people that never before had been visited by a U.S. president. Wedged between communist China and authoritarian Russia, Mongolia’s democrats certainly could use the boost they received from Mr. Bush. But it’s striking that […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Beijing has good reasons to believe that Washington is a city of counter- revolutionaries, with troublemakers running amok. Washington, a long-time prime destination for those with “anti-China” sentiment, has been unusually busy in recent weeks. A number of high-profile “enemies of China” have taken turns coming to town to bad-mouth China. Taiwan’s […]
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