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From Newsweek: These days the word “slow” is not often paired in the same sentence with the famously roaring Chinese economy. Indeed, Beijing has been trying for two years to restrain the excesses of a country growing at the precipitous pace of 9.5 percent. Yet there are emerging signs that the campaign is starting to […]
Read MoreFrom the Miami Herald: These days, it seems as if China and Venezuela are moving toward the same point but from opposite ends of a vast ocean. China is the socialist state that has a thriving industrial sector and is embracing elements of capitalism; Venezuela is the capitalist country with massive oil reserves that is […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: It has been 60 years since Japan’s invading army of two million soldiers laid down its arms in China, but Jiaozhuanghu and scores of other well-funded memorials and museums in the country play a part in nurturing widespread resentment over Japanese wartime aggression and atrocities. This enduring sense of grievance, […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: Chinese security agencies are tightening their controls over foreign non-government organisations operating in the country, fearing they are a cover for efforts to overthrow communist rule. Over the past two years, Beijing has watched with growing anxiety the overthrow of authoritarian regimes led by Soviet-era strongmen in Georgia, Ukraine and […]
Read MoreFrom the Australian: On Thursday, Yahoo, the US portal, announced it would pay $US1 billion ($1.3 billion) as part of a deal to gain a 40 per cent stake in Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce company that had cash revenues of only $US68m in 2004. The deal followed hard on the heels of a stunning Nasdaq […]
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