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From AP, via Business Week: U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow was touring the financial center of Shanghai on Wednesday as he embarked on a visit expected to focus on China’s currency policies and its huge and growing trade surplus with the United States. Chinese officials said the currency issue would be on the agenda during […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s second manned spacecraft blasted off from a remote northwestern launch site on Wednesday, just two years after the country joined an elite club of space powers. Astronauts Fei Junlong, 40, and Nie Haisheng, 41, were handpicked from 14 fighter pilots and had been in the running for China’s first manned space launch […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Mr Lu was beaten when he took the Guardian’s Shanghai correspondent to Taishi, the focus of a campaign by locals and civil rights activists to unseat the village chief, who they have accused of corruption… Mr Lu said yesterday that he knew it was dangerous, and that he was used to the […]
Read MoreThe World radio program reported on Chinese bloggers and Internet censorship today: Bloggers in China have rock-star status. Their popularity has Beijing concerned. While the bloggers avoid discussions of politics, they are drawing many young Chinese to the on-line world of Internet communication. The World’s Matthew Bell reports. Listen online here.
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times, via Asia Media: Chinese police tried two times but failed to indict a detained New York Times researcher on suspicion of leaking state secrets, a lawyer close to the case said yesterday. Their evidence was weak, he claimed. Mr Zhao Yan was detained in September last year on suspicion of helping […]
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