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From the Ottawa Citizen, via Slashdot: Having experienced limits in accessing both news and email, it came as little surprise to find that the search engines were subject to similar restrictions. Searches for articles on circumventing the Chinese filters yielded a long list of results, none of which could be opened. Moreover, inputting politically sensitive […]
Read MoreThe Economist reviews three books about contemporary China: The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, and Your Job By Oded Shenkar China Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World By Ted C. Fishman and Foreign Babes in Beijing: […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Express: A Chinese company has launched a new service to break the internet addiction of youngsters in the northwest city of Xi’an. Yanghu Adolescent Quality Development Company Ltd, the first private firm set up specifically to help net-addicted youth, registered in March 2005 will begin operation later this month. The company claims to […]
Read MoreFrom a Boston Globe editorial: THERE ARE obvious reasons and not-so-obvious reasons to applaud the unprecedented visit to Beijing by the leader of Taiwan’s Nationalist Party, Lien Chan. It is certainly better for leaders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to be settling their quarrels by political means rather than peremptory declarations or threats […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: A second leading Taiwan opposition politician will head to China tomorrow for what he calls a “bridge-building” visit to ease more than 50 years of hostilities with the mainland. “The theme song for my trip is Simon and Garfunkel’s `Bridge Over Troubled Water,”‘ People First Party Chairman James Soong, 63, told reporters today […]
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