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Melinda Liu
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Feb 27, 2009 06:16 PM
Reporter Nick Mackie traveled to Wanzhou, perched on the banks of the Yangtze River, to see if residents were responding to the government’s drive to boost domestic consumption of household goods. With the economic crisis biting deeper, Beijing hopes...
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Newsweek
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Feb 22, 2009 11:10 PM
by Barrett Sheridan. This appeared in the magazine issue dated Mar 2, 2009. If there is a single lesson to have emerged from the current financial crisis, it is that lending got out of control. The West needs less of it—not less compared with today's...
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Melinda Liu
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Feb 18, 2009 02:23 PM
Jennifer Conrad reports on why the important anniversaries of 2009 could make it a year of living dangerously for the leadership in Beijing: October 1 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, a date that will be celebrated...
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Newsweek
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Feb 16, 2009 03:21 AM
The U.S. ignored Beijing's request that it pay 1 percent of GDP to help China go green. It shouldn't. by Fred Guterl. This appeared in the magazine issue dated Feb 23, 2009. Gao Guangsheng has an odd sense of timing. In late October, as the global financial...
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Newsweek
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Feb 13, 2009 03:29 PM
by Mary Hennock. Everyone's familiar with the American dream: work and study hard and you'll get ahead. But China has its own version, which hopeful parents and their children have adhered to ever since the emperor started meritocratic civil-service exams...
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Melinda Liu
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Feb 10, 2009 01:05 PM
Now we learn CCTV contracted a provincial company to lay on a lavish fireworks display for the Lantern Festival. Organizers ignited Olympics-grade pyrotechnics off the roof of an unoccupied building -- which went up in flames -- beside the iconic Rem...
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Melinda Liu
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Feb 9, 2009 10:18 PM
A prodigious cacophony of fireworks greeted today’s Lantern Festival, or yuan xiao jie 元宵節 – so prodigious in fact that a building forming part of China Central Television’s new headquarters caught fire. The 159-meter-tall structure is still burning now;...
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Mary Hennock
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Feb 2, 2009 12:54 PM
My house-cleaner has just spent 12 days in jail in an escapade that reveals much about why China is not likely to enjoy the rule of law anytime soon. Let me say right away, she was not innocent. Liu Ayi (Auntie Liu) broke the law and was punished. Nonetheless...
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