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From the Washington Post: After Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill raised the idea of a “technical” interruption of fuel in a meeting in Beijing on April 26, one senior Chinese official, Yang Xiyu, complained that the Americans were focused on too narrow a range of tools for China to influence Pyongyang. Chinese officials […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: Around 20% of the world’s hijacked computers sending out spam, attacking websites and hosting unsavoury material are in China, says a report… China already has the second biggest net-using population in the world, even though only 8% of its people go online… But China is not just keeping up on ordinary net […]
Read MoreESWN has translated Cheng Yizhong’s acceptance speech for the 2005 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. The Chinese government barred Cheng from traveling to Dakar, Senegal to accept the award: I want to thank...
Read MoreFrom IHT: Hu’s visit to Russia, which will start Sunday, will be his second since he assumed office in 2003. He has yet to visit the United States as president. This time he will push for “further development of the Chinese-Russian strategic partnership,” said Li Hui, an assistant Chinese foreign minister, at a press briefing […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Pat Oliphant will be the first American editorial cartoonist published in China by a Chinese-language newspaper, Universal Press Syndicate said Thursday. Oliphant, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, is expected to begin appearing in The Beijing Youth Daily within the next month, Universal said. The message will be that “this is the […]
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