From Asia Times: Having already impressed the world with the creation of its glittering, international-quality infrastructure, the erstwhile Middle Kingdom has now turned its attention to transforming its universities into world-class institutions. “Our government realizes the connection between a nation’s overall power and the quality of its higher education,” said Dr Weiying Zhang, assistant president […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: What is usually lost in the fashionable discussions comparing India and China as models of economic growth and development is the fact that development is not solely about shiny surfaces and broad roads. China has indeed outstripped India by these criteria, but perhaps even more significantly, it has transformed its formerly […]
Read MoreFrom The Indian Press: The latest development in the high-stakes rivalry between energy hungry India and China saw India once again trumped by its Himalayan neighbour. The acquistion of PetroKazakhstan Inc, by a unit of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) is being feted in the mainland as a major victory at a time the country […]
Read MoreFrom India’s The Financial Express: As India’s Union Budget- approaches, staggering quantities of newsprint are being devoured by an equally staggering number of pundits and journalists. In March, Beijing’s Parliamentary building, the Great Hall of the People , will witness the Budget presentation by the Chinese finance minister, during the annual meeting of the National […]
Read MoreAt the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pallavi Aiyar reviews Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler, former China correspondent for The New Yorker. She discusses the tight focus of Hessler’s writing on...
Read MoreYale Global is publishing a two-part series that will look at, “widening inequality in China and its effects on children.” The first article, written by Pallavi Aiyar, describes a tour of Europe organized for the...
Read MoreIn the New Statesman, Sukhdev Sandhu reviews Smoke and Mirrors: an Experience of China by Pallavi Aiyar: Now, with the Beijing Olympics fresh in the memory and the next Commonwealth Games due in just two years in Delhi, more...
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