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China’s oil quest causes friction – Antoaneta Bezlova

From Asia Times: A week before Chinese President Hu Jintao’s scheduled meeting with US President George W Bush (later canceled due to Hurricane Katrina), on the fringes of the United Nations summit in New York, Washington warned Beijing that the two countries would be on a collision course if China continues to pursue energy deals […]

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It’s Only a Religion, Say ‘the Other’ Chinese Muslims – Nat Green

From Pacific News Service: At a time when Islamic populations around the world are under increased scrutiny, the Chinese Hui are often confused in the Western media with China’s second-largest Muslim minority, the restive Uighurs, an ethnically distinct group concentrated in China’s Central-Asian Xinjiang province. Chafing under Chinese rule, the Uighurs have given the Chinese […]

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China as imperialist; China as colonist – Macabe Keliher

From Asia Times Online: In the 17th and 18th centuries, China as a state underwent a great transformation, the consequences of which reverberate to the present day. Through extensive and sometimes protracted military conquest, China’s last imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), effectively altered the special understanding the empire ruled from Beijing by doubling the territory […]

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China mining fatalities rise

From AFP, via NEWS.com.au: CHINA recorded some 2700 mining fatalities in the first half of the year, with major accidents involving up to 29 fatalities more than doubling during the period, state press reported today. Some 2672 miners died in Chinese mines during the first six months of the year, a 3.3 per cent rise […]

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Overproduction blamed for China mine blast

From The Washington Times: A Chinese government official has blamed overproduction of coal for causing the mine explosion that killed 81 in Xinjiang autonomous region. Li Yizhong, director of the State Administration for Work Safety, said overproduction, lack of a work safety license and bad management should be blamed for the accident, the Xinhua news […]

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Coal Mine Blast in Western China Kills 41

From LOCAL 8 :: KFMB Stations, San Diego, California: An explosion in a coal mine Monday in China’s far west killed 41 people, with another 42 still missing, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The blast occurred at 2:30 a.m. in the Shenlong Coal Mine in the Xinjiang region, when about 87 miners were working, […]

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Alim A Seytoff: Uighurs feel China’s squeeze

From Asia Times online: China is one of the most prominent authoritarian states to have successfully asserted such opportunistic claims in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Washington, DC, and New York City that killed more than 3,000 Americans. The main reason is that prior to September 11, Beijing had failed to silence […]

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Geoffrey Lean: Fears that new strain of bird flu will kill millions

From The Independent: International experts fear that bird flu is mutating into a strain that will cause a worldwide pandemic, killing many millions of people after the mass deaths of wild birds in China. Unconfirmed reports say that more than 100 people have also died, suggesting that the virus may have evolved to pass from […]

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