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From Danwei, a summary of students’ online reactions to the new restrictions placed on university BBS sites: Other, cheekier students on the BBS in question – “Shui-Mu Qinghua,” abbreviated, in accordance with the heretical non-Pinyin romanization of the university’s name as ‘Tsinghua,’ as “SMTH” – have taken to using Chairman Mao quotations to title their […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A nightmare has descended on this poor farming village, filling its muddy lanes and brick homes with dread. Despite official denials, the peasants here have concluded that two teenage girls who ventured to the big city to earn some money were sealed alive in their coffins and left to die unspeakable […]
Read MoreJoseph Nye writes in the Taipei Times about China’s rising military power: China’s inability to compete with the US on a global basis does not mean that it could not challenge the US in East Asia, or that war over Taiwan is impossible. Weaker countries sometimes attack when they feel backed into a corner, such […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily reported on the March 19 explosion in a coal mine in Shanxi Province: Rescuers on Thursday morning found remains of five more miners killed in a coal mine gas blast last Saturday in Shuozhou, north China’s Shanxi Province, bringing the death toll of the coal mine tragedy to 70. Information from the headquarters […]
Read MoreAsia Times has two articles about the global impact of China’s hunger for natural resources: “Commodity prices skyrocket” and “Too much for Mother Earth“: China is snapping up resources at an unprecedented rate, driving world commodity prices through the roof. But more alarming is the scenario 25 years down the line, when China’s per capita […]
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