Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China

• OECD: Inequality in China Leveling Off

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.

• Atlantic:Don't Panic About China

Author explains why the West should embrace—rather than fear—the next superpower.

• Time:Haiti and China: A Tale of Two Earthquakes

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.

• NYT:In War Against the Internet, China Is Just a Skirmish

On why the norm of the Internet may not be laissez-faire, but fragmentation of community along linguistic and national lines.

• ATimes:The peace imperative

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.

• TreeHugger:Why Blaming China Misses the Point

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.

• NYT:Diplomacy That Will Live in Infamy

Interesting op-ed on British, American, Russian, and Japanese imperialism in East Asia in the early-mid 20th century.

• Frgn Affrs:What to Read on the Financial Crisis

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.

• ATimes:How Eurocentric is your day?

From the toilet to music to science, our world may be more interconnected than you think!

• Frgn Polcy:Take Me Back to Constantinople

Advice to empire builders: learn from Byzantine not Rome.

• Zompist: On Aruging

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.

• Newsweek: the Recession’s Real Winner

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.

• Time:India's China Panic

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.

• Time:What China's Hu Would Really Like to Tell Obama

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...

• ChinaBeat:A Han Chinese Student on the Urumqi Violence of Summer 2009

An Xinjiang Native studying in the U.S. for his Ph.D. shares his thoughts on this summer's violence and its fallout.

• Newsweek:Lawyers Are Taking Over China's Government

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.

• WSJ:Gauging the Chinese Yuan’s Trade Potential

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.

• ATimes:A positive role for Sino-Western synergy

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.

• ATimes:Xinjiang serves as pan-Asian pivot

Some clarifications are needed about the many misinformation that has come about since the Urumqi riots.

• ATimes:China leads an Asian charge

China may be enjoying its new found role as a leader engine of International growth. Playing this role will however not be easy...

• Economist:Asia, An Astonishing Rebound

Asia’s emerging economies are leading the way out of recession; the tough part now is to make their recovery last.

• NYT:How Russia Defines Genocide Down

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.

• Time:Can China Save the World?

China faces enormous challenges. It is not yet the leader of the global economy, but it's getting there.

• TaiwanToday:Japanese strategist predicts cross-strait trends

Japanese strategist Kenichi Ohmae discusses why closer (economic) integration with the mainland is a matter of survival for Taiwan.

• Chinayouren:Lessons from Xinjiang - the Media

One view of what we can learn about the media - both Chinese and Western - from their coverage of the recent Xinjiang riots.

• Newsweek:Africa’s New Path

Rwanda's Paul Kagame Charts A Way Forward.

• NYT:China’s President Congratulates Taiwan Leader on Election as Chairman of Party

Taiwan and Mainland leaders exchange 1st direct messages between CCP and KMT since CCP tookover the mainland in 1949.

• NYT:Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future

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 on the July 5 Riots in Urumchi

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.

• Guardian:Unity is deep in China's blood

China's perspectives on Xinjiang, by Fu Ying, China's ambassador to the UK.

• Frgn Polcy:Think Again: Asia's Rise

On why Asia's (and China's) Rise is by no means guaranteed...

• WSJ:China’s Ethnic Fault Lines

Rising tensions and resistance to Beijing’s control challenge China’s ‘harmonious’ society

• Prospect:Does the future really belong to China?

A two year-old debate that is nevertheless reminiscent of many of the ideological clashes we've had here on Fool's Mountain.

• ATimes:Ghost of Marx haunts China's riots

Is the fall of communist ideology responsible for China's ethnic strife today?

• Asian Officials Push Back Against Savings Glut Theory

Should Asians' alleged over-saving and under-consuming habits be blamed for causing the global financial crisis?

• NYT:Green Power Takes Root in the Chinese Desert

Through a combination of carrots and sticks, Beijing is starting to change how this country generates energy.

• NYT:Chinese Fireworks Display

According to this NY Times Op-Ed, unless the U.S. gets its fiscal house in order, relations with China will be fundamentally unstable.

• Antiwar:Leave China Alone

Everyone - including Hillary Clinton - seems to have a take on 6-4. Here may be a slightly more realistic version.

• Time:On the Streets of China, Electric Bikes Are Swarming

Auto sales are rising in China - but electric bike sales growth are even larger.

• WashPost:In China, Liberty Has Many Faces

What does liberty mean for the Chinese people?  Here is a small sample.

• WSJ:In China, a New Breed of Dissidents

20 Years After Tiananmen, Beijing Tolerates a Safer Wave of Protest.

• Guardian:Young, gifted and red - the Communist party's quiet revolution

World's largest political party has maintained power by transforming itself and its relationship with the Chinese public.

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• 一甲子的故事

北京的知識圈最近流行一個順口溜

• 马玲:中国共产党八十八岁生日反思

中共自身寻求改革的必要性与紧迫性

• 郑永年:中国社会信任的解体及其结果

最大危险是权力和资本走在一起

• 周晓东:也谈“中国社会信任的解体及其结果”

从制度上改善应该不是一条唯一的道路。

• 新语丝专栏:汶川地震

• 左右派都挨打 識時務者為英雄

大陸意識形態的主潮流是「打左燈、向右轉」

• 王力雄:西藏问题的文化反思

回顾西藏问题的起伏，不少人难免有一种费解。

• 吴毅:文物追索与民族情感

理性的文化和心态有赖于理性行为的累积。

• 张莉——哭泣的白度母

不仅拥有美丽和善良，而且拥有无畏和果敢。

• 新语丝:中医是什么？

这一“中”一“西”两个字，不知道贻误多少仁人志士！
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