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From Business Week: All in all, the expectation is that Hu’s visit will be a relatively friendly affair that will paper over a far more complex reality governing Sino-American ties. “China and the U.S. share important common interests in the Asia Pacific region, and we are willing to work together to make the Asia Pacific […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: On a hazy afternoon that threatens rain, my two companions and I hail a taxi. Our driver, Wang Yi, is friendly and professional. He flips the fare meter and starts a small narrative as we make our way through the city’s urban labyrinth… Actually, Yi is not a real taxi […]
Read MoreFrom the New Left Review: A railway worker caught up in the events of Tiananmen Square, now using his radio show to broadcast the problems of Chinese factory hands live on air. Han Dongfang describes life in the Red Army, student-worker unity in 1989, surviving TB and torture in prison and the China Labour Bulletin‘s […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Khaleej Times: Like most women in similar circumstances in China, Wen was at first too afraid to speak up in fear of risking her reputation, dishonouring her family and losing her job. “Most people don’t understand. Even my mother thinks: why does it happen only to you?” she said. “I became very […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Gays, long neglected in China out of moral concern, are a group that exists and is of major concern to fight against HIV/AIDS, said Chinese Vice Health Minister Wang Longde Wednesday. At the Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, Beijing Plus Ten meeting commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on […]
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