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From Reuters, via ABCNews.com: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz prodded China on Tuesday to give more power to the people for the sake of sustaining strong economic growth. Wolfowitz, a staunch conservative who served as deputy U.S. secretary of defense before joining the bank, said China had made progress in giving a voice to ordinary […]
Read MoreFrom Planetark: Greenpeace on Monday called for greater investment in wind turbines in China, the world’s top coal consumer, saying Beijing’s ambitious target for renewable energy means it could emerge the global top wind power by 2020… In February, China’s parliament passed a renewable energy law, which will take effect next January, which sets tariffs […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Veteran dissident Liu Xiaobo, in an open letter to Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, accuses the US company of betraying its customers and supporting dictatorship by providing information on journalist Shi Tao to Chinese authorities. “Major foreign companies should not be helping the Chinese government to limit freedom of speech on the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The half-poetic, half-academic title of the Friday program at the Peter Norton Symphony Space was “Yunnan Revealed: Indigenous Music and Dance From China’s Land of Clouds.” It was full of interesting bits, and everywhere it has been, which is mostly to East Coast colleges, it has been festooned with panels […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: China affirmed its place in one of the world’s most exclusive clubs with the expected conclusion Monday of a second manned space flight. More than four decades after the US and Soviet Union accomplished a similar feat, China can still lay claim to being only the third nation to put […]
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