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From the AP: China tried to quell an uproar Saturday over a general’s comment that Beijing might use nuclear weapons against the United States in a conflict over Taiwan, saying the statement was his personal opinion. The U.S. State Department on Friday criticized the remark by Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, a dean at China’s National […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: China’s third-largest oil company has run into roadblocks in both houses of Congress over its bid to buy California’s Unocal Corp., a controversial quest that has raised national security fears. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., introduced a bill in the Senate on Friday that would bar the Chinese National Offshore Oil […]
Read MoreFrom Slate: Kristof is right that China’s blogging rules can be sidestepped by experts. But what he and others overlook is a larger assault on the identity of the Internet itself. The Web was conceived as one global medium, by its nature open and free. But countries like China are pushing hard to divide that […]
Read MoreFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education, via a Glimpse of the World blog: Mr. Jiao is the latest casualty in the Chinese government’s war against academic dissent, a campaign that has caught many scholars by surprise. Shortly before a new, younger generation of Chinese leaders took office in 2002, intellectuals in Beijing were hoping that […]
Read MoreThe New Yorker has an article, titled the Turtles, which has no web link, about Beijing real estate tycoons Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin. Sam Crane has an interesting post about the article on his blog Useless Tree.
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