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From the Washington Post: While the dollar peg has been immensely beneficial to China’s development, it has not been without cost. While it helped create millions of badly needed export jobs for Chinese workers, it also robbed those workers and their companies of the full value of their labors by underpricing their products. And to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: While Bollywood and some of its stars are busy fending off allegations of underworld links, some of the biggest Hollywood movie studios are quietly entering China’s dream factories. With more than US$150 million in new investments, they have plans to push the growing Chinese film industry into a higher orbit in the […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: Shunned by Western leaders and investors for his government’s human rights policies, Zimbabwe has begun a determined campaign to hitch its plummeting fortunes to China’s rising star. Mugabe calls the policy “Look East” and has relentlessly promoted it as another way to thumb Zimbabwe’s nose […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent Online: The number of Web users in China, the world’s second largest Internet market, grew by nine million people in the first half of this year to hit 103-million, the China Daily said on Friday. The growth represented an increase of 18,4 percent over the same period last year in a market […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Government officials in a rural area near Beijing have backed off plans to seize land in a dispute with local farmers that resulted in a violent confrontation last month, state media reported Thursday. The clash, involving hundreds of armed thugs, left six villagers dead, and part of it was captured on […]
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