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Newshour correspondent Paul Solman has been reporting from China in a special series called China on the Rise. Yesterday’s broadcast was called “Misinvestment in China“: In recent years, China’s government has channeled investment into urban and business development, neglecting its enormous peasant class. The government recently pledged, however, to bridge the income gap. On today’s […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: While most Chinese hearts soared with the launch on Wednesday morning of the spacecraft Shenzhou VI, which took two Chinese “taikonauts” into orbit, China’s leader was in no mood to celebrate. … Hu’s absence, and presumably his ill-humor, bear out rumors circulating in the higher reaches of power in China: he suffered […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via Andante.com: The Nuremberg State Theatre is to introduce Richard Wagner’s monumental four-opera epic Der Ring des Nibelungen to music lovers at the Eighth Beijing Music Festival.… Yu Long, artistic director of the Beijing Music Festival, said: “This is a historic moment for Asia.” Yu is proud to be able to present […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Policy: The recent democratic revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kirgizstan sent small tremors through China’s leadership. To avoid its own “color revolution” Beijing is now quietly cracking down on those who would dare to show dissent. Its primary target? China’s civil society.
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: The Communist Party leadership has approved an economic blueprint that it says will address China’s yawning wealth gap and reduce “outstanding contradictions” that have led to a rash of social unrest. Hu Jintao, president and Communist Party chief, concluding an annual planning session Tuesday, put […]
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