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ESWN has translated a Q & A (scroll down to bottom of page) between a reporter for Nanfang Net and a Panyu District government spokesperson about the recall effort in Taishi village, including the recent attack on activist Lu Banglie: Around 8:40pm on September 8, Lu Banglie brought two foreigners into Taishi village in a […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Discontent and protest are on the rise across China. Zhou Yongkang, China’s Minister of Public Security, reported recently that in 2004 there were 74,000 “mass incidents” – demonstrations, riots and other acts of civil disobedience. That’s an average of 200 a day; a worrisome number for China’s leaders, who, at a plenary […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: The U.S. Treasury secretary, John Snow, has been talking to China, and the finance ministers and central bankers of the world’s 20 leading countries, the G-20, have been meeting near Beijing, with the inevitable fixation on the yuan. But the really deep, fundamental and unsustainable global imbalance is not between […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: It’s goodbye to Mao and hello to Europe’s top architects, all Australia’s iron ore… and half the World’s concrete. With its sights set on Olympic gold, Beijing is being rebuilt round the clock.
Read MoreFrom AP, via MSNBC: Ba Jin, one of China’s most revered communist-era writers who attacked the evils of the pre-revolutionary era in novels, short stories and essays, died Monday in Shanghai, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 100. Best known for his 1931 novel “Family,” the story of a disintegrating feudal household, Ba […]
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