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From the Pacific News Service, via sfgate.com: Liu is the latest of a string of Chinese women bloggers who have become famous, some even worldwide. They talk about sex and relationships openly, changing the dialogue between the sexes. In a culture where sexual attitudes are still repressive, the racy details shared by the women bloggers […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: At a time of rising political tensions, heightened by a growing nationalism, China and Japan are more intertwined economically than they have ever been. In their breadth and intensity, the ties have begun to surpass those between the United States and Japan, whose economic relationship has often been called the […]
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, Robert Skidelsky writes about two books: Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde V. Prestowitz, and China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman: The “rise” of China has […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China on Thursday urged the Vatican to put into action its will to better relations with China. “The Vatican is very clear about the principles that China advanced for developing China-Vatican relations,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan at a regular press conference. The first is that the Vatican must terminate its […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: General Motors Corp became the latest auto maker to commit publicly to the production of gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles for the Chinese market, announcing plans to manufacture hybrids in China by 2008 with its Chinese partner SAIC Motor Corp, the Wall Street Journal reported. GM said it has set a goal of […]
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