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From the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: In fact, China is effectively two economies. It is a manufacturing Goliath, a major engine for worldwide economic growth that has doubled its foreign trade in just three years. But roughly 500 million of the 1.3 billion Chinese live on less than $2 a day […]
Read MoreFrom the Observer: Beijing Military Hospital has a 6am wake-up call; Qing is the first to respond. He was brought to the hospital by his parents after he tried to stab one of his classmates. The 17-year-old has been diagnosed as suffering from a new disease emerging in a time of China’s prosperity. Like the […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The UN rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, has arrived in China for a fact-finding mission to examine allegations of official maltreatment. It is the first time a UN rapporteur on torture will be allowed to visit China’s prisons and detention centres. It has taken years of negotiations for Beijing to agree to […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Siemens AG‘s contract to supply China 60 locomotives as fast as France’s TGV trains may herald billions of dollars of orders for global engineering companies, economists including China Securities Research Co.’s Hu Yanni said. Siemens, Germany’s largest engineering company, will make three trains that run at top speeds of 300 kilometers (186 miles) […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See said Monday that supporting the Vatican’s push for greater religious freedom in China was a priority. Ambassador Francis Rooney issued a statement a day after President Bush told Chinese leaders in Beijing to expand religious, political and social liberties. Bush also […]
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