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From Yale Global Online: Every day, countless commentators prophesize the ascendance of the world’s next superpowers, China and India, the two “Asian giants” shaking off their ancient slumber and rising to the call of the 21st century. According to popular punditry, their place in the firmament of globalization’s success stories is already guaranteed. Yet economist […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: China’s ratification of the UN Convention Against Corruption is the latest wrinkle in a three-year anti-corruption campaign that included an “audit storm” to scrutinize official spending. However, as Mark DeWeaver points out, it appears that the leadership had other motives besides purifying society: most of those prosecuted were cronies of ex-president Jiang […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China and Thailand said on Friday suspected human cases of bird flu were false alarms but the U.N.’s health agency said it had no details on the Chinese case and wanted more information. Since last week China has revealed three outbreaks of the H5N1 virus that killed 3,800 chickens, ducks and geese. A […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Taipei Times: In an upscale Beijing restaurant, a youthful real estate developer from Taipei muses ruefully over the possibility of union between China’s communist colossus and his home country. “When I first came here 18 months ago I thought that if China takes over Taiwan it’s OK,” says Chang Chieh, 24. “But […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Addressing a meeting of senior Communist Party officials in Beijing last week, visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld emphasized the need for China to open its political system and to ease any policy that “limits speech, information or choices.” Perhaps he hadn’t yet seen Beijing’s white paper, Building of Political Democracy in […]
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