Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
A recent op-ed piece in the Chinese edition of the Financial Times made the bold suggestion that China would be better off casting aside centuries of history and shifting its seat of government away from Beijing. The author, a researcher at the Ministry of Commerce, suggested that Beijing’s location in ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
By Matthew Plowright
Last Thursday, a PR executive I had arranged a meeting with was one and a half hours late. When she eventually arrived, she was extremely apologetic, recounting with horror her two hour cab ride from Zhongguancun, Beijing’s IT district in the north-west of the city to her firm’s ...
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