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From the Detroit Free Press: From violins and pianos, and on to bassoons, guitars, cellos and nearly every other musical instrument, China is taking the global music market by storm. China already makes more violins and pianos than any other nation on Earth, and its production of brass, woodwind and electronic instruments is soaring. Workshops […]
Read MoreFrom the San Francisco Chronicle: Despite its rising prosperity, China has seen a dramatic increase in public demonstrations after several years of nervous quiet followed the violent government crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989. The number of protests grew to more than 58,000 in 2003, when an estimated 3 million Chinese took to […]
Read MoreFrom the Times: “Express patriotism rationally. Don’t take part in illegal protests. Don’t make trouble,” said the text message sent by Beijing police to millions of mobile phone users in the capital. “Help by not creating trouble, love the nation by not breaking the law.” Officials of China Mobile, the top service provider, said only […]
Read MoreFrom the Houston Chronicle: On the surface, China looks much more impressive than Russia. But this is a country that will be living with the consequences of totalitarianism for some time. Thanks to the one-child policy, there will be hundreds of millions of elderly people without families to support them. Thanks to that same policy, […]
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