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From the San Francisco Chronicle: Chevron Corp. has given campaign contributions to politicians trying to block the company’s Chinese rival in the bidding war for Unocal Corp., with some of the money flowing in the last month. Chevron, a prolific donor in Washington, has funded some of the lawmakers who have been most critical of […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: With his nylon socks and cigarette pinched between index finger and thumb, Liu looks like any other small-fry entrepreneur in China’s hinterland. Yet for two reasons, he is different. First, his business is oil. Second, he’s running from the police. Liu, who declines to reveal his full name, changes his cell-phone number […]
Read MoreFrom Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, via Asia Media: The CNOOC bid came at a sensitive time in U.S.-China relations. Since earlier this year, the members of the second Bush administration have repeatedly warned that the United States had previously underestimated the speed of the Chinese military’s modernization drive. With the U.S. trade deficit going further […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: RTHK management has formed a taskforce to consult staff and the public over the handling of cost cuts and programming issues following a row over government interference with the public broadcaster’s editorial independence. The move was welcomed by the staff union, which said more communication would […]
Read MoreFrom the Telegraph: China will have more than 23 million men unable to find wives by 2020 because so many more boys are being born than girls, according to a study… These men are known as “bare branches” because they will never bear fruit. History suggests that they will give rise to higher crime rates […]
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