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From the Standard: At this point, withdrawing PNTR from China would be unlikely to improve the situation and might even be counterproductive. But free trade has not meant a free China. It is time for the United States to pursue a more aggressive policy toward Beijing rather than waiting for the flow of commerce to […]
Read MoreFrom RFA: Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan are preparing a prison facility in at least one location for AIDS patients who cause trouble by complaining about their treatment at the hands of local officials, a recent report by RFA’s Mandarin service has revealed… Sources said HIV/AIDS patients who had been to Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: President Bush has decided the United States and China should begin holding regular senior-level talks on a range of political, security and possibly economic issues, signifying both China’s interest in the prestige of such sessions and the administration’s efforts to come to grips with China’s rising influence in Asia, senior administration […]
Read MoreSeveral articles about the upcoming China-India summit. From the IHT: When China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, arrives here on Saturday, his four-day visit will be filled with the usual handshakes and protocols that would ordinarily go little noticed beyond this region. This diplomatic mission, though, will have an altogether different feeling. Perhaps for the first […]
Read MoreFrom the IHT: The spectacular rise of China as a world economic power is one of the great changes of our time. For Europe, as for the United States, it poses a massive competitive challenge. Europe, the United States and Japan are still the big players in the world’s service, high-tech and luxury goods markets, […]
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