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From China Daily: The ever-stronger forces of globalization and the bullet-paced march of a market society across China are fundamentally changing museums and the art they display. “Chinese museums, like Chinese society, are very quickly becoming more open and free,” said Gao Minglu, a widely-respected expert on Chinese art and museums.
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: George Bush‘s personal interest in Mongolia might be thought limited. Yet, when the country’s then leader visited Washington last year, the US president enthusiastically declared “a new era of comprehensive partnership”. Mongolia’s 2.6 million people occupy an area of 604,000 square miles (the UK has nearly 60 million people in 95,000 square […]
Read MoreFrom Le Monde Diplomatique: China has announced that the yuan will no longer be pegged to the dollar; greater currency flexibility will permit Beijing to use monetary policy to control its economy. And the entry of its enormous labour force into the global economy will change the world balance of trade. China wants to bypass […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Things were looking up for Chen Xianzhong, proprietor of Baghdad’s first authentic Chinese restaurant in the new Iraq, until a suicide car bomber blew up outside the place less than two weeks ago. The deafening blast shattered the windows and spewed body parts into the dining room. A foot landed […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the International Herald Tribune: Blogging is blooming in China as the country’s vast pool of Web users try to make their mark online and ambitious local start-ups battle foreign heavyweights for a piece of the market. China now has a 14.2 million-site “blogosphere,” with a new blog, or Web log, created every […]
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