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From Asia Times: Knowing that its geopolitical power is directly tied to China’s economic rise and the perception that it will continue for the midterm, Beijing has limited its other geopolitical ambitions for the moment and has pursued the “waiting game”, sensing that its hand will increase in value as the game continues, as long […]
Read MoreFrom Wired Magazine: Last month, when anti-Japanese sentiment in China had reached a fever pitch, Edwyn Chan conducted an experiment… Chan, who was raised in Hong Kong but today calls Chengdu, Sichuan, home, realized that doing anything that involves politics could mean trouble, but he also believed this was an opportunity to see whether blogs, […]
Read MoreThis article is from the Guangzhou Daily by Zi Feiyu. It has been translated by Joseph McMullin via the Press Interpreter: Since the beginning of May, wave after wave of parents have come to enroll their students in prominent private schools. At the same time, a national debate has been launched since a report in […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China has formed a special force of undercover online commentators to try to sway public opinion on controversial issues on the Internet, a newspaper said on Thursday… A special force of online commentators had already been operating in Suqian city in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu since April, the Southern Weekend said. […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal, via post-gazette.com: “I don’t feel badly at all about going to work and not spending all my time with my son,” says Peggy Yu, co-founder of dangdang.com, China’s largest online retailer. “He has his life (in school), and I have my life.” It is a sentiment shared by many Chinese […]
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