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From the Washington Post: From Mao to Yao, China has come a long way, and not everybody here is happy about it. Amid a national controversy over what it means to be a worker in the China of 2005, the Communist Party government announced Thursday that Yao Ming, the 7′-6″ Houston Rockets center from Shanghai, […]
Read MoreIn today’s New York Times, lawyer Pu Zhiqiang writes: We Chinese are outraged by Japan’s World War II crimes – the forcing of Chinese into sexual slavery as “comfort women,” the 1937 massacre of...
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: The Chinese economy is now off the top of its investment-driven business cycle and is moving toward a position of substantial overcapacity, which may begin to weigh heavily on prices next year and should see exports surge.
Read MoreFrom Asia Times, two articles about competition between China and Japan over a Russian oil pipeline. In “China beats Japan in Russian pipeline race,” John Helmer writes: Despite pressure from the government and oil importers in Tokyo for priority in Russian crude deliveries to Japan, Russia’s new eastern oil pipeline will first deliver crude oil […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China opposes setting an artificial timeframe for the Security Council reform and rejects forcing through a reform proposal still lacking broad consensus by means of a vote, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Wang Guangya said Wednesday… After reiterating China’s principles on UN reform, Wang said the proposals for the Security Council reform […]
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