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From Xinhua: By the end of June 2005, China has reported 126,808 people infected with HIV, including 28,789 AIDS patients. The death toll of HIV/AIDS had reached 7,375, according to Hao Yang, deputy head of the disease control department with the Ministry of Health on Friday.
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Of all the mistakes the U.S. is making in dealing with China’s rise, the most obvious is this: thinking we’ve seen this before. Well, we haven’t. Never before has such an underdeveloped economy with such a huge population and history of innovation muscled its way onto the world stage so fast. To say […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: As much as Chinese leaders hope that a leap of nationalistic pride for completing the space mission would help assuage popular discontent over social injustice and corruption, they feel there is a need to justify the expenditure. Despite an economy that is expected to grow 9.2% this year, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, touring this village in the Sichuan province to promote “financial modernization,” urged China on Thursday to take lessons from the United States on how to spend more, borrow more and save less. Mr. Snow argued that China’s consumers and entrepreneurs are badly in need of […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via MSNBC: China’s reach into space, joining an elite club of nations setting their exploratory sights beyond Earth, is posing a serious challenge to the United States that could have military implications, analysts said. China on Wednesday successfully launched its second manned space mission, albeit aboard a ship based on an old Soviet […]
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