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When U.S. forces raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan last week, they employed a new, top-secret stealth helicopter. One of the helicopters crashed on site, and Chinese officials want to take a look at...
Read MoreFollowing this week’s Strategic and Economic Dialogue meetings between Chinese and U.S. officials, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan talked about the current state of U.S.-China...
Read MoreFor the Sydney Morning Herald, John Garnaut writes about a meeting former President Jiang Zemin held with China’s Soviet historians to try to understand why the Soviet Union failed. In recent years, Garnaut argues, the...
Read MoreThe crackdown on free speech following calls for a “Jasmine Revolution” in China has netted numerous prominent and less well-known artists, activists, lawyers, writers and others. But one other group is also...
Read MoreAn investigation in Hunan has revealed that family planning officials and local village officials confiscated babies from families who could not afford to pay the fine for having more than one child, and sold the children to...
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