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The increase in inequality in China has leveled off in recent years and could be less severe than previously thought, suggesting that Beijing is starting to make progress in tackling one of its biggest social problems.
Author explains why the West should embrace—rather than fear—the next superpower.
Looking for parallels to Haiti's catastrophe, many point to China. The author went back to Sichuan six months after the catastrophe and was amazed at the speed of physical and economic recovery.
On why the norm of the Internet may not be laissez-faire, but fragmentation of community along linguistic and national lines.
On how China has prospered through peace, established a framework for future peace - and on how the present form of government may present the best guarantee of preserving peace.
Blaming China now for destroying the world won't help future negotiations nor get the world on track to developing new low-carbon economies nor dissuade China from its mission to lead the world in clean development.
Interesting op-ed on British, American, Russian, and Japanese imperialism in East Asia in the early-mid 20th century.
There has been a lot of accusations by some that the world economic crisis has been caused by China. Here are some good readings for those initiated enough to learn more about reality.
From the toilet to music to science, our world may be more interconnected than you think!
Advice to empire builders: learn from Byzantine not Rome.
The best friend a blogger can have is a good enemy. Your friends will, perhaps, read through your posts and make a few comments. But only an enemy will read through your entire argument, for free, finding every error and questionable statement.
China's strange mixture of state intervention, markets, dictatorship, and efficiency is puzzling. But it's time to stop hoping for China's failure and start understanding and adapting to its success.
According to the article, it'd be so much better for India and China to slowly forge a constructive pan-Asian consensus and do away with the "post-colonial baggage" that animates the current Sino-Indian border dispute.
Ever wondered what China's Hu would really like to tell Obama on the sidelines of the upcoming G-20 meeting? Here is an entertaining take...
An Xinjiang Native studying in the U.S. for his Ph.D. shares his thoughts on this summer's violence and its fallout.
In a trend that will change the country, leadership of China's Communist Party is slowly passing from functionaries trained in engineering to those educated in softer sciences like law.
Progress in use of the yuan will depend not just on Chinese government initiatives, but on how much more competitive China’s exporters can become.
It is time to look anew at a reopened Eurasia under the growing influence of China's re-emergence. For those whose objective is long-term geopolitical equilibrium, this is a dynamic to acknowledge, monitor and support.
Some clarifications are needed about the many misinformation that has come about since the Urumqi riots.
China may be enjoying its new found role as a leader engine of International growth. Playing this role will however not be easy...
Asia’s emerging economies are leading the way out of recession; the tough part now is to make their recovery last.
I've always felt that genocide is a term that is overused by the West as a geopolitical propaganda pawn. Here is a case where the West cries foul when Russia plays the game.
China faces enormous challenges. It is not yet the leader of the global economy, but it's getting there.
Japanese strategist Kenichi Ohmae discusses why closer (economic) integration with the mainland is a matter of survival for Taiwan.
One view of what we can learn about the media - both Chinese and Western - from their coverage of the recent Xinjiang riots.
Rwanda's Paul Kagame Charts A Way Forward.
Taiwan and Mainland leaders exchange 1st direct messages between CCP and KMT since CCP tookover the mainland in 1949.
When Xue Longlong's academic records vanished in Wubu, he lost out on a high-paying job, and the woman he hoped to marry abandoned him.
Heyrat Niyaz - a Uyghur journalist, blogger, and AIDS activist - tells of how he tried to warn officials that “blood would flow” in Urumchi on July 5 and gives his thoughts about the background to the ethnic rioting.
China's perspectives on Xinjiang, by Fu Ying, China's ambassador to the UK.
On why Asia's (and China's) Rise is by no means guaranteed...
Rising tensions and resistance to Beijing’s control challenge China’s ‘harmonious’ society
A two year-old debate that is nevertheless reminiscent of many of the ideological clashes we've had here on Fool's Mountain.
Is the fall of communist ideology responsible for China's ethnic strife today?
Should Asians' alleged over-saving and under-consuming habits be blamed for causing the global financial crisis?
Through a combination of carrots and sticks, Beijing is starting to change how this country generates energy.
According to this NY Times Op-Ed, unless the U.S. gets its fiscal house in order, relations with China will be fundamentally unstable.
Everyone - including Hillary Clinton - seems to have a take on 6-4. Here may be a slightly more realistic version.
Auto sales are rising in China - but electric bike sales growth are even larger.
What does liberty mean for the Chinese people? Here is a small sample.
20 Years After Tiananmen, Beijing Tolerates a Safer Wave of Protest.
World's largest political party has maintained power by transforming itself and its relationship with the Chinese public.
#In Chinese北京的知識圈最近流行一個順口溜
中共自身寻求改革的必要性与紧迫性
最大危险是权力和资本走在一起
从制度上改善应该不是一条唯一的道路。
大陸意識形態的主潮流是「打左燈、向右轉」
回顾西藏问题的起伏，不少人难免有一种费解。
理性的文化和心态有赖于理性行为的累积。
不仅拥有美丽和善良，而且拥有无畏和果敢。
这一“中”一“西”两个字，不知道贻误多少仁人志士！
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October 24th, 2009 at 7:29 am
I’ve heard of many many renditions of 阿里山的姑娘 – and this ranks among my favorite! Thanks Dewang…