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Qaddafi’s imminent fall – some views from China

The news coming out of Libya this morning has been reported without much commentary by Xinhua News Agency and most newspapers and websites in China. That has not stopped editors from using the news to sell papers; see for example … Continue reading

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A personal history of the beginning of the Red Guards

A new blog and the blogger’s translation of an article about the early days of the Cultural Revolution.

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40 million new poor

China raised the poverty line from annual income of 1067 RMB to 1300. The change of the measurement caused a two-fold growth of China’s poor people: from 40 million to 80 million.

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