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China’s loggers down chainsaws in attempt to regrow forests [Guardian]
2009: China’s Green Great Wall is a project by public servants grow new trees every March 12 to fight desertification. A ‘man-made ecological barrier is designed to halt sand and dust storms’ as 3500...
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Ferguson vs. Kissinger on the future of China, and what it means for the rest...
Kissinger and Ferguson are spot on in this review by Foreign Policy magazine. Kissinger’s perception is that China will revive itself to resume its position as middle kingdom in maintaining harmony,...
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Fighting China’s Golden Shield: Cisco sued over jailing and torture of...
China’s Golden Shield 金盾工程, colloquially known as the ‘Great Firewall of China’ (防火长城) comes under scrutiny here as Cisco is sued by Chinese political prisoners for the jailing and torture of...
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Beijing curbs online dissent by menacing social network’s owner [Independent...
A step back in the democratisation of the flow of information in China? This opens up a multitude of questions. I wonder what the international community might think. Will the politicians step forth to...
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Kublai Khan: China’s favourite barbarian [BBC]
A most interesting piece from the BBC on China’s love-hate relationships with things foreign – indeed they spent millennia building a string of walls Ripley’s Believe it or Not claimed could be seen...
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Trees planted to form a barricade to pollution #China [China Daily]
China Daily: Adding on to the Green Wall of China, its longer-term plan to hold back the expansion of the Gobi desert. Slated to be 4500km long when completed in 2050, it currently progresses with a...
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President Xi’s Singapore Lessons #China [Project Syndicate]
Nobel laureate Michael Spence on a crucial point of China’s development – and how long after Deng Xiaoping’s and Lee Kuan Yew’s friendship that helped sparked the opening of China, Singapore’s lesson...
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Chinese travelers the world’s biggest spenders [CNN] #RisingChina
Winds of change five years ahead of schedule in UN forecast. CNN reports China now matters most as top source of global tourism cash having spent US$100b on outbound tourism. UNWTO says the volume of...
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A life by the wall [China Daily] #RisingChina #GreatWall #CrossPollination
Epic journey through decades that inspires – for myself, trekking along the Great Wall in an ‘interface’ with history is high up the agenda; but to even contemplate running the distance, wow. Kneecaps...
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Talent shows get thumbs down from regulators [Global Times] #RisingChina...
China takes step toward further media convergence… 国家广播电影电视总局 + 中华人民共和国新闻出版总署 forms tag team as print and broadcast regulator. To prevent the homogeneous development of TV programs and to provide...
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