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In an interview with the AFP, a WHO official says that healthcare costs will escalate in China as a lack of education and the government’s vested interests encourage the country’s smokers. One in three of the world’s smokers live in China. More than 1 million people die in China every year from tobacco-related illness; the […]
Read MoreThe China Elections and Governance website has translated an article from Southern Weekend about changes in the focus of peasants’ activism in rural China: “Relying mainly on a recent Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) study, this article describes how the focus of peasant activism has moved from tax disputes to property rights, particularly in […]
Read MoreAccording to reports in the NY Times and Washington Post, Donald Keyser, a former high-ranking State Department official who worked on China, has been arrested on suspicion of providing documents to Taiwan and for concealing a trip to Taiwan. The Post story is here. The New York Times story is here.
Read MoreAccording to an AP report: “Toyota Motor Corp. will begin making its ecologically friendly hybrid model in China by the end of 2005, the first overseas assembly for the company’s Prius vehicle. ”
Read MoreChinese government policy has forced the country’s Muslims to exist in isolation from Muslims around the world, according to a report by the BBC. The lack of religious freedom clearly limits the ways Chinese Muslims are able to practice their faith, but the enforced isolation has an unexpected benefit, especially for women believers: “Beijing’s tight […]
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