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From the Financial Express: When Lu Xuesong was dismissed from her position as a teacher of Chinese cinema at an arts college in Jilin province in May, she was so angered at the school’s refusal to say why that she posted a plea on the internet. All her materials, she said, had been approved by […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: U.S. and North Korean diplomats acknowledged an irreconcilable deadlock Thursday in stalled nuclear disarmament talks, throwing into doubt the future of Chinese-sponsored six-party negotiations that have been under way for more than two years without result. The stalemate, over North Korea’s demand for a light-water nuclear reactor to produce electricity, brought […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: China will be the key area of growth for the global luxury goods market in the coming years as the country’s economy continues to grow and the tastes of Chinese consumers mature, Ernst & Young said. China is now the world’s third largest luxury goods consumer with more than two bln […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: Even assuming that recent reports about President Hu Jintao’s intention to “rehabilitate the reputation” of the late Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief Hu Yaobang are true, this seems yet another instance of the Chinese supremo’s well-disguised Machiavellianism. Evidence abounds that the 62 year-old CCP General Secretary and commander-in-chief is […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: At Bei Shan Si, an ancient Taoist shrine that sits atop one of the peaks that ring this old Silk Road city, worshipers turn out in large numbers on a misty Sunday morning to climb the shrine’s many stairs, to burn incense in an appeal to the gods, or simply […]
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