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Superpower: China’s Choices Echo Around The World (Information Week)

Today, Paul McDougall and John Foley wrote on the Information Week: When the Chinese government makes technology decisions, it impacts businesses around the world. “China’s always wondering, ‘Are we going to have our own standards, or are we going to follow world standards?’” says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “And it’s one of the few countries […]

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Four books about Changing China

This is a book review on today’s San Francisco Chronicle, written by Sandip Roy. “The image of the lone young man confronting the giant tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square in 1989 was at once so terrifying and so romantic that it seems to have become the lens through which the West still regards China. That […]

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The great Chinese aircraft carrier mystery (STI)

The Straits Times (STI) published an article written by Anthony Paul today, about online rumours of Chinese aircraft carriers. It said: “Several websites refer to ‘eyewitness reports’ of three graving docks at Shanghai, each with carrier construction under way. First mention appears to have come in a lengthy report on the ‘Strong Nation Forum’ (Qiangguo […]

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Baidu president takes on Google (Xinhua)

This is from Chinaview today. “When Google launched its Chinese language advertising service in February, the battle suddenly heated up as domestic search engine operators rushed to get a market share they deserve. Among domestic competitors, Robin Lee’s Baidu seems to be one of the most promising, as the firm began generating profits last year […]

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Tiananmen Mothers are Detained (NYT)

Ding Zilin and others in Tiananmen Mother Movement have been detained. This report is from New York Times on March 29, 2004. “At least three family members of people gunned down by the Chinese military during the June 1989 crackdown on dissent in Beijing have been detained, as the authorities seek to prevent protests connected […]

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