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From the IHT: In terms of overall giving, China is still far from the top of the international league tables. In the days after the tsunami, Beijing pledged $62 million and added $20 million more at the Jakarta aid summit a week later. Donations from ordinary Chinese come to about $35 million… But the seeming […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: …While most of the NPC session was humdrum on the face of it, the combined policy initiatives the 3,000 delegates endorsed are comparable in their significance to the reform measures introduced by Deng Xiaoping. They signal the coming of age of the new leaders, president and Communist Party chief Hu Jintao and […]
Read MoreThe U.S. has voiced opposition to the passage of China’s anti-secession law, according to the Courier-Mail: THE US today branded “unfortunate” China’s adoption of a law giving its military the legal basis to attack Taiwan if the island moves towards independence. “We view the adoption of the anti-secession law as unfortunate. It does not serve […]
Read MoreChina blocked portions of the BBC’s China Week reports, according to this report in South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: Transmissions of the BBC World channel’s week-long series of mainland-themed programmes to hotels and apartment compounds for foreigners were repeatedly blocked yesterday during reports on politics and other sensitive issues. A story […]
Read MoreOrville Schell has published an essay in Time Asia on China’s failure to deal with its history: By the time former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and Premier Zhao Ziyang died in January, he seemed to have...
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