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On History News Network, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom writes: Western reports on the recent anti-Japanese protests by Chinese students have often stressed the need to pay attention to one sort of historical issue: ongoing controversies related to Japan’s treatment of its World War II atrocities. But to make sense fully of what has been going on […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Formerly called Qingdao Refrigerator Co., the firm was more than $10 million in debt in the early 1980s. Today Haier is one of the world’s top five producers of household appliances, with 30,000 employees and more than $12 billion in revenue. CEO Zhang joined the company in 1984, when he was 35. An […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: The US-based Clinton Foundation will help Yunnan Province in its battle against HIV/AIDS during the next three years. The foundation will focus its resources on anti-retroviral drug treatment and upgrading an AIDS laboratory. Representatives of the Clinton Foundation and Yunnan health department officials discussed details of cooperation in AIDS prevention and treatment […]
Read MoreFrom Quill Magazine, blogger Joseph Bosco writes: When a free press becomes a reality in China ” and it surely will ” it will come after countless small victories and even more tragic sacrifices by brave, persistent souls. This is a story about one of the small victories. Just as I was wrapping up the […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Few Westerners have heard of the Uygurs, a proud, Turkic-speaking people descended from nomads, who today scratch out a living in the rugged mountains and deserts of landlocked Xinjiang province. But supporters see them as a prime example of a beleaguered population caught in the crunch between the vaunted worldwide drive for […]
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