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From Reuters: China’s current leaders played a prominent role in the secrecy-shrouded 1990 burial of reformist Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang, whose death in 1989 sparked the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests. Video footage obtained by Reuters of the events 15 years ago show a grim-looking Wen Jiabao, then 48 and now China’s premier, wearing a cream […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe: As President Bush readies his chopsticks to dine with President Hu Jintao tomorrow, he might ponder whether the rise of China means the eclipse of the United States. Some Americans see China pushing us aside. Some even grasp at China’s rise as a stick to beat the Bush administration. Any rise […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China and Japan – the two giants of East Asia – are competing for energy resources around the globe. Their rivalry in the East China Sea, Russia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia has been well documented. Yet little has been written in Washington about the impact of Sino-Japanese rivalry in Africa. With […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Los Angeles Times: In a speech evoking bodybuilding, civil rights icon Rosa Parks and the power of the individual, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urged a university audience in China to emerge from the constraints of their political system and attain success in the global world. “America is a nation that believes […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Skype, the internet telephony company owned by eBay, is in talks with Chinese state-owned operators that it is optimistic will clear the way for the launch of its computer-to-telephone call service in the world’s most populous telecoms market. Niklas Zennstr√∂m, Skype chief executive, waved aside suggestions that Verso Technologies, a US […]
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