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Lester Brown, author of Who Will Feed China?, attempts to answer his own question in an op-ed in the Washington Post: The evidence of China’s plight is clear. Since 1950, some 24,000 villages in the northwestern part of the...
Read MoreAt a press conference to close the annual NPC meetings, Premier Wen Jiabao rejected any comparisons between the situation in China and those in Tunisia and Egypt that led to popular revolutions there. From AP: Social stability...
Read MoreAP reports on young migrant workers who no longer feel at home in the countryside and intend to spend the rest of their lives in the city, thereby altering China’s urban demographics: Unlike older migrant workers who came...
Read MoreTwo writers and political activists, Xu Wei and Jin Haike, were released from prison after serving their ten-year sentence for participating in an informal political discussion group called the New Youth Study Group. From AP: Xu...
Read MoreThe Chinese government is putting aside tensions between China and Japan over the past year in order to offer assistance and condolences in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan: When news of the disaster...
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