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China 2008: Environmental Crisis

This next article in the CDT series on important issues facing China in 2008 focuses on the Environment. See also previous posts on Nationalism, the Developing World, and the Global Financial Crisis. China’s environmental...

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Ditch the Tatty Flag of Nationalism

Isabel Hilton, the editor of Chinadialogue.net writes on the Guardian: When China signed up for the Olympics, it promised to improve human rights and press freedom, as well as to clean up the air and provide impeccable...

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The future of dissent: hacking Chinese censorship – Giovanni Navarria

From openDemocracy: Since the spread of the internet in the mid-nineties, privacy concerns have increased exponentially. Cyberspace has often been equated to Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, or to a new, digital version of George Orwell’s Big Brother, capable of seeing and controlling everything and everyone. This rather dystopic vision has rightly generated fear and distrust of […]

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To become a 21st century hegemon, China will need toshare its wealth

As part of the Guardian’s weeklong special about China, Isabel Hilton writes that in order for China to reach global superpower status, it first has to “share the internal wealth and build a more equal, well-educated society.” She writes, “Only two big ideas now survive from Mao’s copious outpourings: one is a truculent nationalism that […]

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