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From the Independent: When Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in November 2002 and President of China a few months later, the little-known 59-year-old was seen as the man who would usher in a more liberal era. As the first president to have joined the party after the 1949 Communist takeover, […]
Read MoreFrom Macworld: Verso Technologies Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, hopes to soon win a contract to block Chinese Internet users from using eBay Inc.’s Skype VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) software, the company said Monday. A Chinese telecommunications operator has begun a paid trial of Verso’s NetSpective M-Class filter, a product that is designed to block […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A prominent pastor in Beijing’s underground Protestant church was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for illegally printing and distributing Bibles and other religious books, in a case that has attracted attention from Christian groups in the United States and elsewhere… The sentencing came less than two weeks before President […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: For years, the rapid growth of China and India has been based on business with the developed world, and has often meant taking business away from Western industries. Now, companies in the two largest emerging economies in the world are beginning to hunt intensively for business in each other’s markets. […]
Read MoreFrom The Times: Police in Beijing are expecting a terrorist attack against luxury hotels in China in the coming week, according to a warning issued by the American Embassy in the Chinese capital. In a message posted on the embassy’s website this morning, the US State Department advises American tourists to be vigilant if they […]
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