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The Wall Street Journal is running a month-long feature on the rural-urban divide in China (available by subscription only): China is a tale of two countries. One, on the eastern coast and including cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, presents immense opportunity for the roughly 400 million Chinese who live there, for farmers who live […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Combined, India and China account for nearly 40% of the world’s population. Fueled by turbo-charged growth, they are both consolidating their positions as central actors in the international economy. Inevitably, their economic heft will be accompanied by political influence. China is pursuing economic alliances everywhere from Southeast Asia to Latin America; India […]
Read MoreThe Taipei Times has a review of The National Museum of History‘s (NMH) exhibition From the Forgotten Deserts: Centuries of Dazzling Dunhuang Art: Dunhuang is a name that resonates through the ages as one of the truly great treasure troves of art and culture… It would be nice to say that the exhibition, despite its […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never stood in an election, so can it now learn to take part in a democratic process and, of course, emerge the victor? This is the real prize and was the challenge in Nanjing last week in the meeting between Jia Qinglin, chairman of China’s People’s […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China’s web portals have blocked prayers, blessings and other comment on the death of Pope John Paul II from being posted on the Internet, officials said. While popular portals such as Sina.com and Sohu.com‘s on-line discussion forums were flooded with messages about the pope Saturday, no messages could be seen Monday.
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