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From the International Herald Tribune: The U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, warned that China must make significant structural changes in its economic policies, lest it remain “a problem for the international economy.” In an interview Wednesday, Rice also laid out the administration’s concerns about China’s military buildup, its human rights record and its restrictions […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A leading state-run newspaper has scrapped a controversial appraisal system linking reporters’ pay to government approval after a high-profile protest by a veteran editor. Li Datong , a senior editor at the China Youth Daily, launched a rare attack on his employer over the plan to […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has detained a U.S. citizen on suspicion of spying for ideological foe Taiwan, keeping him under house arrest without charge for nearly three months, the U.S. embassy in Beijing said on Friday. Chinese-born Xie Chunren, 56, was arrested in the southwestern province of Sichuan on May 31 after he traveled there from […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: By linking up with China’s second biggest financial institution, the Royal Bank of Scotland has secured a powerful local partner ahead of the opening of China’s fast-growing banking sector next year. Bank of China is the nation’s top foreign exchange lender and one of the big four banks, which together control 60% […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post (subscription required): Six high-profile journalists from the weekly Economic Observer – one of the mainland’s most important business newspapers – resigned at the start of this month over concerns about the organisation’s expanding bureaucracy. Two more editorial staff members are believed to have resigned a week later. Senior reporter […]
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