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With North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on his third visit to China in a year, observers are expressing optimism that finally the “Dear Leader” may be ready to implement significant economic reforms to his impoverished...
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Read MoreIn the New York Review of Books, Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, reviews Henry Kissinger’s new book, On China: It is hard to fit Henry Kissinger’s latest book, On China, into any...
Read MoreJournalist and Internet analyst Hu Yong writes for China Media Project: Back in May 2010, when Guangdong province had just opened up the first Public Security Bureau [police] microblog in the whole country, I wrote a piece...
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