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U.S. Secretary Defense Robert Gates is in China to rebuild military ties between the two countries. From Reuters: Gates’s trip to China comes a week ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States...
Read MoreInvestors.com reports on the popularity of Sina Weibo microblogging service, which has filled the void left by the blocking of Twitter in China: Many use Weibo, the microblogging site owned and operated by Chinese Web portal...
Read MoreIn the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes about his meeting with Hou Yifan, a 16-year-old who recently became the youngest world chess champion: Napoleon is famously said to have declared, “When China wakes, it will shake...
Read MoreFollowing the discovery that over 200 children suffer from lead poisoning from a nearby battery factory, a local environmental official in Anhui has been suspended. From NPR: Zhao Yiping, the head of the local environmental...
Read MoreWhen Robert Gates arrives in China over the weekend, it will be the first visit to the country by a U.S. Secretary of Defense in 11 years. The Washington Post reports: In the past year, China’s diplomatic and military...
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