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ESWN has posted a series of questions and answers about the recent riots at Huankantou, based on translations of several documents about the incident. The first question: Q:¬† Is it true that there is a total news blackout on the Huaxi/Huankantou incident and the only available information comes from western media? Are these the sole […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Washington Post: The European Union could impose limits on cheap Chinese textile and clothing imports if an investigation into the large increase of Chinese goods on the market reveals the European market is being disrupted, EU trade chief Peter Mandelson said Sunday. But he insisted he was not seeking to […]
Read MoreThe International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam has posted an online exhibit of propaganda posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China. The China posters are here: The former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China: three countries where posters played an important political role and received a large amount of artistic attention. This is […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday urged Japan to reflect on its World War II aggression and back up its apologies with action, after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in a bid to ease tensions between the two Asian powers. In a rare public statement, Hu also demanded that Tokyo not […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The past month has seen an eruption of anti-Japanese protests in several Chinese cities. The protesters were angry at Japan’s approval of a nationalist textbook which they accuse of glossing over atrocities during the years when Japan occupied China. However Rupert Wingfield-Hayes says the Chinese also have a habit of forgetting awkward […]
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