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From a special issue of Newsweek titled “China’s Century,” Fareed Zakaria writes: Every businessman these days has a dazzling statistic about China, meant to stun the listener into silence. And they are an...
Read MoreESWN has translated excerpts from a number of documents about the writings by journalist Shi Tao that got him imprisoned on “state secrets” charges. Writer Liu Xiaobo writes: I have been reading what Shi Tao has been publishing in overseas media in recent times.¬† I don’t see any “national secrets,” unless Shi Tao’s poems contain […]
Read MoreFrom Deutsche Welle: The EU is set to launch a probe into China’s exploding textile exports this week just as trade officials are warning that doing so could be perilous to trade structures and other industries. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is urging the European Union and China to talk through their dispute over China’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: An historic meeting between the two sides in China’s 1926-49 civil war”the mainland’s Communist Party and the Taiwan-based Kuomintang”has ended in a pledge to seek a definitive end to hostilities and pursue economic integration. The Kuomintang leader, Lien Chan, may also have done some good with his call”televised across the mainland”for the […]
Read MoreFrom CNN’s special feature Eye on China, a report called “Environment pays price of progress“: Look out the window of an office block in downtown Shanghai, and the smog can sometimes be so thick it is hard to make out the building on the other side of the street. Around the capital, Beijing, the desert […]
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