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Secret China has published a lengthy interview with Jiao Guobiao, author of Declaration of the Campaign against The Central Propaganda Department. ESWN has translated the interview here. Jiao, who is currently in the US, says: “I think that it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak out, just as it is the responsibility of the […]
Read MoreAs the Chinese media is caught between market-oriented reforms and demands to provide government propaganda, some outlets are having a hard time defining themselves. CCTV has axed its news station which focused on the western regions of the country as part of the government’s development scheme and was the first CCTV subsidiary to operate as […]
Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen writes about the historical interactions between India and China and their relevance for the development of the two countries today. While the two countries’ Buddhist connections have been widely studied, Sen writes, “religion is only one part of the much bigger story […]
Read MoreAt The APEC meetings in Santiago, Chile, President Hu Jintao said that the Chinese government plans to cut economic growth to nine percent, down from 9.1 last year, according to this Bloomberg article. Hu also met with President Bush, and China pledged to work with the US to get North Korea to resume negotiations over […]
Read MoreIn the Taipei Times, a doctor writes about her experiences visiting China’s AIDS-plagued villages as a volunteer for Medicins sans Frontieres and the challenges facing doctors and patients in China: “This new anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, which the international community has lauded, is more open and proactive than before. But it must still operate in the context […]
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