Jobs in EU aren’t root of quotas on China – Thomas Fuller

From the International Herald Tribune: The pictures of Chinese-made sweaters, bras and trousers piled up in boxes in European ports have been a powerful symbol of the “flood” of foreign garments entering the European Union. But the threat to European textile producers – and especially to European jobs – has been wildly exaggerated, experts say. […]

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With China’s help, Angola to rebuild roads – Sapa-AFP

From Sapa-AFP, via the Mail and Guardian: Angola plans to begin rebuilding its roads destroyed in the 1975-2002 civil war, starting with a 300km stretch between the capital Luanda and the northern agricultural and mining province of Uige, the national road body said on Tuesday. China has granted Angola a $211-million loan to finance the […]

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China Extends Invitation to Hong Kong’s Legislature – Keith Bradsher

From The New York Times: The Beijing-backed chief executive of Hong Kong invited the territory’s entire legislature to come with him to southern China next month, in what would be the largest visit of pro-democracy politicians from here that the Communist leadership in Beijing has ever allowed. A few small groups of democracy advocates did […]

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China And India: A Rage For Oil – Jason Bush

From Business Week: American attention has lately been focused on China’s emergence as a competitor for dwindling oil supplies — witness the uproar over CNOOC Ltd.’s failed bid for California’s Unocal Corp. But a different, yet equally intense, energy rivalry sure to have a dramatic effect on geopolitics has been playing out on the far […]

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Green China Overview – World Changing

Worldchanging.com has posted a comprehensive overview of their writing on China’s environment: To a very great degree, whether or not we as a planet manage to win the Great Wager depends upon China. The combination of its size, course of economic growth, and existing reliance on pollution- (and carbon-) intensive industries and energy sources lead […]

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Next Steps for China – Eswar S. Prasad

From Finance and Development, a quarterly magazine of the International Monetary Fund: China’s emergence as an economic power and its sheer size have put it firmly at the center of the global economic stage. Its remarkable...

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PowerNet and China Communist Youth League develop “Anti-Japan War Online” game -Interfax

From The Interfax China: PowerNet Technology, a Chinese online gaming firm, has developed a new online game in cooperation with the China Communist Youth League (CCYL) named “Anti-Japan War Online,” which will begin commercial operation by the end of 2005, a PowerNet official said Tuesday. “The game will allow players, especially younger players, to learn […]

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Google loses ground to Baidu – Xinhua

From Xinhua: US Internet search engine company Google, a dazzling success story on Wall Street, is underperforming in China’s booming search engine market, a recent survey has found. Google’s share of China’s Internet search engine market is rapidly being eroded by its Chinese rival Baidu.com Inc, the quasi-government China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) said […]

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Retail Billionaire Moves Apparel Work Out Of China – Chris Noon

From Forbes.com: Out of fashion? Even if China does resolve its textile imports disputes with the U.S. and EU, the made-in-China label may be as dated as shoulder pads. According to a media report, U.K. retailers are shifting production from China to Eastern Europe, Turkey and India to keep pace with customer demand for the […]

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