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From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Overseas journalists working in Shanghai have issued a statement condemning the violence in Taishi and the attacks on pro-democracy activist Lu Banglie and on reporters covering the unrest. However, the statement from the 140-member Foreign Correspondents’ Club was only issued after heated debate among members over […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Economic inequality and social protests in China have become a frequent topic in the Western press. The startling figure of 74,000 protests across China in 2004, up from 58,000 the previous year, has popped up in many newspapers, as has China’s most recent Gini coefficient of 0.45, suggesting that economic inequality in […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: Western politicians queue up to sing its praises. Economists regard it with awe and delight. Other countries are desperate to imitate it. Yet there is another side to China’s exploding, double-digit-growth miracle economy – it is turning into one of the greatest environmental threats the earth has ever faced. See also “Beijingers […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Boston Globe: China’s communist leaders have issued an economic plan that calls for developing the poor countryside in an effort to narrow the growing and politically explosive gap between rich and poor, state media said Wednesday. The five-year plan was approved at an annual leadership meeting that ended last week but […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Chinese logging companies are still plundering vast swathes of forests in northern Burma in collusion with local ethnic militias, despite Beijing’s past commitments to crack down on illegal logging, an environmental group said. Global Witness, a UK-based agency that links natural resource exploitation with conflict situations, said around 95 per cent […]
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