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Articles
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2008-04-18 |
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Let there be Games sans 'sanction' |
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Let there be Games sans 'sanction' China-bashers must realise the country has come a long way from Mao's era; also, if China is not perfect, no society is
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| Date: |
2007-11-23 |
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I scratch your back |
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By inviting in a Chinese bank, America hopes for reciprocity
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| Date: |
2007-11-23 |
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Not enough people in China |
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A shortage of staff means employers will take more risks in 2008
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| Date: |
2007-11-12 |
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China posts record trade surplus |
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China’s trade surplus rose to a record in October, but fell short of many analysts’ predictions
thanks to a jump in the value of imported raw materials.
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| Date: |
2007-11-12 |
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Counterfeit goods in China |
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China is moving forwards, and backwards, on intellectual-property protection
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| Date: |
2007-11-12 |
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Can this really still be China? |
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Kashgar is one of those places I had always wanted to visit but was not quite sure why.
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| Date: |
2007-10-29 |
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An intimidating but brittle colossus |
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The 2008 Olympics has been billed as the biggest coming out party in history, delivering a stage on
which China can reclaim recognition as one of the world’s great and powerful nations.
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| Date: |
2007-10-29 |
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Ni hao, Moon |
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HU JINTAO, China's Communist Party leader, could hardly have asked for such perfect timing. Or maybe he did.
Scarcely had the party finished its ritual “election” of him for another five years
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| Date: |
2007-10-29 |
| Title: |
Chinese historiography |
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“CLASSES struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.” Such, wrote Mao Zedong, is history. Such, too,
was history teaching. In the 1970s it was not uncommon for a teacher to begin a lesson by telling students to take
a ruler, turn to a page of their textbook,
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| Date: |
2007-10-01 |
| Title: |
How fit is the panda? |
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China's booming economy is helping to support global growth as America turns sickly. So now it has to
keep up the pace
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| Date: |
2007-10-01 |
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Aviation in China |
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A fight in Shanghai between two airlines ends Chinese-style: mysteriously
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| Date: |
2007-09-17 |
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Rising prices alarm the Communist |
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CONSUMERS in China's cities have had it good for an unusually long time. During most of the past few years of
double-digit economic growth, inflation
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| Date: |
2007-09-17 |
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China's stock exchanges |
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HONG KONG saw itself as a bit of a financial pioneer when in 2000 it sold shares in its combined stock exchange
and clearing house to the public. Why then, when so many other exchanges have since copied its approach, has it
sought to turn the clock back?
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| Date: |
2007-09-17 |
| Title: |
Not losing Facebook in China |
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XIAONEI.COM does not just look like Facebook, the booming social-networking website. As well as borrowing its
design, it has also lifted its strategy and transplanted it to China.
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| Date: |
2007-08-17 |
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Chinese dragon feels the heat |
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Does the Chinese dragon need to take a cold bath? Recent data releases suggest that the risk of overheating is there. China’s inflation rate reached a 10-year high of 5.6 per cent in July, prompting hawkish noises from the central bank.
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| Date: |
2007-08-17 |
| Title: |
Pay China to cut greenhouse gas emissions |
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Last month China said it would reject any international effort to limit its greenhouse gas emissions. The announcement came on the heels of a report that China has become the world's emissions leader, overtaking America.
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| Date: |
2007-07-30 |
| Title: |
Red flag |
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Businesses in China seem not to have noticed that they face tough new rules
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| Date: |
2007-07-30 |
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China's Chicago |
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A giant city in the south-west is a microcosm of China's struggle to move millions from rural to urban
areas
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| Date: |
2007-07-30 |
| Title: |
China: Luxury Retailers' |
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High-end goods are suffering on the mainland due to a
pinched middle class and brands' failure to create a
loyal following
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| Date: |
2007-07-30 |
| Title: |
It doesn't add up |
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CHINESE students may come top of the world league in mathematics, yet the country's economic numbers are
notoriously dodgy. New figures showing that China's GDP growth quickened to 11.9% in the year to the second
quarter, its fastest since the mid-1990s,
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| Date: |
2007-07-16 |
| Title: |
IDC Study Shows China |
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The analyst group says despite India's attractions, the
mainland will overtake it in offshoring by 2011 due to
risk factors and agent skills
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| Date: |
2007-07-16 |
| Title: |
Bully for China |
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ASK officials in Brussels about relations between China and the European Union, and you will soon hear the word
“values”. A recent EU strategy paper on China calls on Europe to pursue a “dynamic relationship with China based
on our values”, notably including democracy and human rights.
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| Date: |
2007-07-13 |
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Energy for China |
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China's energy challenges are monumental. The economy is in the midst of a highly energy-intensive stage of
growth, but domestic reserves—especially of oil—are far from adequate to meet burgeoning demand. As a result,
the government faces a series of policy challenges
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| Date: |
2007-07-06 |
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The static drama of China’s party reshuffle |
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The climax of the Chinese Communist party’s five-yearly congress, with the unveiling of the country’s new leadership, is something rare in China: a live and public moment of genuine political drama and suspense.
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| Date: |
2007-06-22 |
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China cuts tax rebates to curb exports |
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China has cut and in some cases abolished export tax rebates for some of its largest export categories in the latest attempt by Beijing to rein in its bulging trade surplus and ease trade friction with the US and Europe.
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| Date: |
2007-06-19 |
| Title: |
CHaINA Magazine |
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Magazine on China's supply & logistic chain
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| Date: |
2007-06-13 |
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China’s trade surplus ‘unsustainable’ |
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China’s ballooning trade surplus was on Monday described as “unsustainable” by the European Union’s trade chief after figures showed it had risen by almost 75 per cent, year on year, in May.
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| Date: |
2007-06-13 |
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Villains and victims of global capital flows |
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The two interesting alternative explanations are the “savings glut” and the “money glut”. Both share common themes: globalisation; the revolution in finance; the rise of China;
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| Date: |
2007-06-13 |
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China's taste for luxury comes with risk |
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China’s attraction as a fast-growing market for luxury goods needs to be counterbalanced by its lack of suitable distribution channels and various economic and political threats, say industry experts at a luxury goods conference on Monday.
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