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From AP, via the San Francisco Chronicle: Chinese health officials on Monday plan to announce an AIDS cooperation partnership with a U.S. institute, a measure that takes aim at combating what health officials fear will be a tenfold surge in HIV infection in China over the next five years. The partnership between the Chinese Center […]
Read MoreFrom Grist Magazine: China has been a global trade presence since well before Marco Polo trekked there, but, as the recent flurry of successful and attempted acquisitions of major Western brands suggests, its influence has surged of late. If you like the German spectator sport of schadenfreude, one delicious consequence of this is watching presidents, […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Peter Mandelson, EU trade commissioner, on Monday claimed China had a “moral and political obligation” to help solve the trade crisis which has left millions of Chinese garments piling up at Europe’s ports. He was speaking after the collapse of talks in Beijing aimed at resolving the dispute, which has infuriated […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The second season of Super Girls, a TV pop star contest, came to a close on Friday night, but, after generating massive ratings and similarly huge earnings, organizers could be forgiven for not paying too much attention to who actually won. The Hunan Satellite Television show’s ratings have reportedly overtaken the benchmark […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: It was another routine night for Shawn Carpenter. After a long day analyzing computer-network security for Sandia National Laboratories, where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed, Carpenter, 36, retreated to his ranch house in the hills overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., for a quick dinner and an early bedtime. He set his […]
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