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Chang Ping, a prominent Chinese journalist at the Southern Weekend Group and a repeated target of government censors, has been officially dismissed from the company. From the New York Times: The columnist, Chang Ping, said he...
Read MoreAmy Chua’s parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has sparked an intense and heated reaction in the U.S. and elsewhere after an excerpt was published as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with the headline,...
Read MoreThe libertarian Reason Magazine offers a perspective on President Obama’s comments about China in his recent State of the Union address: In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama urged Americans and...
Read MoreThe Chinese government is collecting property tax on a trial basis in Chongqing and Shanghai as a way to tame the heated housing market. From the Wall Street Journal: The trial tax, the closest thing yet to the style of tax...
Read MorePremier Wen Jiabao recently paid a visit to petitioners at the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, where he took his image of populism a step further, the New York Times report: …This week, the 68-year-old prime minister...
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