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Ford, GM, IBM and China: A Match Made in the Han Dynasty

John Wagner Givens | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: GM Bailout, GM Bankruptcy, Gm, GM Buyouts, Hummer Sale, Chinese Government, Volvo, Ford, Hummer, China, Ford to Sell Volvo to Geely, World News

For cultural and historical reasons, China has relatively less experience in brand building, so the US currently seems to have a comparative advantage in internationally known brands.

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Xu Zhiyong and What His Detention Means for Rule of Law in China

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Hu Jintao, People's Republic of China, Rule of Law, Tax Evasion, Chinese Democracy, Public-Interest-Lawyers, Communist Party, Beijing, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Sichuan Earthquake, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese Government, Anti-Discrimination Law, Xu-Zhiyong, China National People's Congress, Rule of Law China, World News

The Chinese Communist Party is unified by one principle: to remain in power. Any organized effort, even if within the confines of the law, will be viewed as a threat to the CCP's authority.

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China's "Green Dam" Overflows and Bursts

Leslie Harris | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Yahoo, Microsoft, Chinese Government, United States, China, Human Rights, Google, Content-Control Software, World News

Chinese Internet users won an important victory this week when the Chinese government indefinitely delayed implementation of the widely condemned "Green Dam" filtering software.

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Twenty Years Later, Still Calling for Freedom in China

Speaker Nancy Pelosi | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

The United States Congress says to the people of China and freedom-loving people everywhere: Your cause is our cause. We will never forget, and we will continue to push for freedom.

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Forgetting June 4th

Lauren Hilgers | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: China Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen 20th Anniversary, Tiananmen Square, China, Tiananmen Protests, Beijing, Tiananmen Crackdown Anniversary, Tiananmen Crackdown, Tiananmen, Tiananmen Square Crackdown, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Chinese Government, 六四事件, Tiananmen 20 Years Later, Tianamen, Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary, World News

Censored in Chinese media and left out of official histories, there has been little to keep memory of Tiananmen Square going.

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Rebuilding China's Moral Foundation by Telling the Truth About Tiananmen

Xiao Qiang | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Tiananmen Crackdown Anniversary, Tiananmen Crackdown, China Tiananmen Square, Beijing, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Tiananmen 20th Anniversary, Tianamen, Tiananmen 20 Years Later, Tiananmen Square Crackdown, Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary, Chinese Government, 六四事件, Tiananmen, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Protests, China, World News

Without a basic grounding in the truth about Tiananmen, there is no moral foundation for China's rise. The Chinese government must come to terms with its own history.

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Tiananmen Square, 20 Years Later: News, Photos And Video From Around The World (六四事件)

Huffington Post | David Flumenbaum | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Tiananmen Crackdown, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Tiananmen 20th Anniversary, Chinese Government, Tiananmen Crackdown Anniversary, China Tiananmen Square, Beijing, Tianamen, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen 20 Years Later, Tiananmen Square Crackdown, Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary, 六四事件, Tiananmen, China, Tiananmen Protests, Slideshow, World News

Some call it the "Tiananmen Square Massacre," others say the "Tiananmen Square Crackdown," and in China it is known merely as an "incident," the "June...

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Google's Android to Run on Acer Netbooks

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Conan O'Brien, Bing, Twitter, Android, Operating System, Chinese Government, Mediabytes, App Store, Jimmy Fallon, Shelly Palmer, Notebooks, Youtube, Media News, Verizon Wireless, Hotmail, Jay Leno, The Tonight Show, China, Acer, Flickr, Media News

Acer is set to be the first PC manufacturer to package its netbooks with Google's Android operating system. One of the finest selling points about Google's OS is that its free.

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Fck Your Mother Ship, Fck Censorship

Disgrasian | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Internet, Grass Mud Horse, Double Entendres, Political Activism, Internet Censorship, Free Speech, Protest, China Internet Access, Chinese Government, Resistance, China Censorship, China Human Rights, Chinese Democracy, Chinese Censorship, China, World News

This is China we're talking about, so the video isn't just funny, punny wordplay. The grass-mud horse video has become a national symbol of resistance to authority and censorship.

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Going to the Country: Unemployed Chinese Migrant Workers Return Home

John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

In the world's biggest annual migration every Chinese New Year over one hundred million internal migrants take a break from their jobs and studies in ...

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Dear President Obama: In Talking to China, Remember its People

Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

If you really want to take U.S.-China relations to a new level that rises above the day-to-day issues, you need to find new ways to engage the Chinese people themselves -- not just their government.

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Chinese Melamine Trial: Dairy Boss Pleads Guilty, May Face Death Penalty

Reuters | Posted 01.31.2009 | World

Read More: Chinese Government, Milk Products, Dairy, Melamine, China, Tainted Chinese Milk, World News

BEIJING (Reuters) - The chairwoman of a Chinese dairy company went on trial on Wednesday over a tainted milk scandal that has killed at least six chil...

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Social Instability, Mass Unrest in China: Not Anytime Soon

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 01.15.2009 | World

Read More: Chinese Democracy, Economic Turmoil in China, Chinese Protests, Chinese Government, Mass Unrest, China, Chinese Culture, World News

In China, exports have hit a wall, with tens of thousands of small manufacturing companies closing their doors, throwing millions of migrant workers out of work. Is China ready to explode?

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China Bans Lip-Synching in Response to Olympics Pseudo-Scandal

John Wagner Givens | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Olympics, Lin Miaoke, China Olympics, Chinese Government, Freedoms in China, China Lip-Synching, Ministry of Culture, Lip-Synching in China, Chinese Censorship, China, Yang Peiyi, Colbert Report, The Colbert Report, World News

The Chinese state has staked its legitimacy on providing economic growth, stability and an ever increasing stature for China on the world stage. The 2008 Olympics had to be flawless.

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China Blames Attack On Foreign Journalists On AIDS Sufferers

China Media Project | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Hiv/Aids China, HIV/AIDS, Henan Province, Belgian Television Crew China, Chinese Government, China, Foreign Media in China, Attack on Foreign Journalists in China, World News

By David Bandurski -- The attack last week on a Belgian television crew in Henan province has drawn condemnation from foreign media, NGOs and governme...

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Pirates of Somalia

Eric Margolis | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: India, Ethiopia, Obama Indonesia, Terrorism, Horn of Africa, Somali Pirates, Russia Georgia War, Ukraine, Singapore, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Chinese Government, North America, Somalia, Darfur Sudan, Soviet Union, Politics News

They are 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and cute little Johnny Depps they are not. This year alone, brazen Somali pirates have attacked 95 vessels. The corsairs still hold 16 ships and up to 300 sailors.

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China Criticism Must Continue

Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vancouver, Beijing Olympics, Beijing, Athlete, Air Quality, Nbc, Chinese, Graham Bensinger, Chinese Government, Gymnist, China, Pollution, London, Beijing Air Quality, Olympics, 2010 Olympics, Darfur, Government, Sports, Us Gymnastics, Sudan, Gymnastics, 2012 Olympics, Politics News

There were columnists during the Olympic Games suggesting that China's image is changing. It's incredibly ignorant to even imply that.

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Tainted Chinese Milk Has Now Hospitalized Over 10,000 Children

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: China, Foreign Affairs, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Tainted Chinese Milk, Politics News

BEIJING — More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized in China's tainted milk scandal, Chinese health officials revealed, while the country de...

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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Cadbury Recalls Chinese-Made Chocolate As 22 More Are Arrested In Milk Scandal

AP | MIN LEE | Posted 10.30.2008 | Business

Read More: China, Chinese Government, China Milk Scandal, Milk, Cadbury, Business News

HONG KONG — British candy maker Cadbury announced a recall Monday of chocolate made in its Beijing factory after it was found to contain melamin...

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China Space Mission Article Hits Web Before Launch

Posted 10.26.2008 | Media

Read More: China, Space, Chinese Censorship, Chinese Government, Media News

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China Acknowledges Gymnastics Team Age Confusion, Blames Bad Paperwork

ESPN | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Underage Chinese Gymnasts, Chinese Gymnastics, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, China Olympics, Chinese Government, China Team Age, Chinese Gymnastic Team Age, Home News

China today acknowledged the confusion about the ages of its Olympic gymnasts. China's deputy sports minister blamed paperwork problems. ESPN has th...

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Beijing Police "Rough Up" Two AP Photographers, Detain More Activists

AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 09.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Olympics, Beijing Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics, China, Chinese Censorship, Chinese Government, Media News

BEIJING — Police descended on a group of foreign pro-Tibet activists and some disgruntled business owners from Hong Kong on Thursday, taking bot...

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Olympics Clean-Up Hides The Real Beijing

AP | ANITA CHANG | Posted 09.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Olympics, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chinese Government, Home News

BEIJING — It all began when my colleague Steve's favorite noodle lady was forced to close down. Soon after, the Popsicle lady was gone, followed...

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China's Olympic Insecurity

Jamie Metzl | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nationalism, Olympics, Falun Gong, Chinese Government, Suppressing Dissent, China and Tibet, China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Uighurs, Chinese Censorship, Beijing Olympics, Politics News

The Chinese deserve their moment in the sun. If, however, the Tibetans, Falun Gong, or Uighurs in China cause a nationalist backlash, the ugly face of Chinese nationalism will be exposed.

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