Welcome to the New and Improved CDT!

Welcome to the new CDT. We have moved to WordPress publishing platform and have upgraded some features to be more streamlined and efficient. And, after several months of malfunctioning, the Comments, Archives, and Search...

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What Next for China?

In The Telegraph, Philip Ehrmann, Manager of the Jupiter China Fund gives his opinion on the future of the Chinese economy: The country, home to 1.3 billion people, is on a rapid growth path, with GDP having grown by 11.4 per...

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Video: China’s Stolen Children

China’s Stolen Children is a documentary showing how the one-child policy has created a booming trade in stolen children, via Youtube: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Part 7: Part 8: Part...

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New Year Crisis Hits China

From The Financial Times: Chinese authorities were on Tuesday scrambling to resolve a crisis in transport and power systems that has left millions of travellers stranded, closed scores of factories and is threatening to inflict...

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Sometimes Trains Just Don’t Run On Time

From The Telegraph blog: One train from Beijing managed to arrive in Hong Kong exactly 24 hours late, which puts being stuck at Clapham Junction for 30 minutes in rush-hour in its proper perspective. Since those millions are all...

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If Ma Ying-jeou Is In The Mainland

This commentary was published on many bulletin boards inside the Great Firewall, such as Cat898.com, one of the most popular online forums in China. The post stayed for several hours before being deleted by censors. It is now on...

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China Admits Worker Deaths

  From the BBC: China has admitted that six workers have been killed on Olympic Games construction projects since 2003. Until now, Beijing had denied there had been any fatalities on the building sites being readied for this...

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How Not to Fight HIV/Aids

On the Guardian website, Joe Amon takes a critical look at the Chinese government’s AIDS prevention efforts: More than 25 years into the global Aids epidemic, one thing we’ve learned is that you can’t fight HIV...

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