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From Xinhua: The middle class in China’s society is likely to reach 40 percent of its work force within 20 years, if it maintains the current yearly growth rate of 1 percent, said a Chinese expert at the Second China-Europe Senior Forum on Government Management held here Wednesday. Lu Xueyi, a professor of the Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: While the world’s leaders gathered in New York this week for the United Nations summit, President Hu Jintao of China and President Bush finally had a chance at a long overdue meeting late Tuesday. Few Americans noticed that President Hu’s visit was postponed so the White House could address Hurricane […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese President Hu Jintao offered the world’s poorest countries tariff-free trade, debt relief and cheap loans on Wednesday — but excluded about a dozen states which recognize China’s rival Taiwan. Hu used his speech at a United Nations summit to underscore fast-growing China’s support for the developing world, calling on rich countries to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: Washington is a complex welter of emotions on China. Lately, each day there appear to be fewer “panda huggers” in the US State Department, and at the Pentagon they have become scarcer still. Beijing’s sentencing of Chinese journalist Shi Tao to 10 years in prison after he e-mailed comments made in a […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: Chinese President Hu Jintao’s meeting with George W. Bush this week in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations’ 60th anniversary celebration, continues the series of encounters between top American and Chinese leaders that started in 1972. With each meeting, the drama and historical import has diminished. That’s a positive […]
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