Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Kevin Rudd is trying to seriously organize a pan-Asian free trade/security agreement (the word EU is bandied around quite a bit in the article), which would include such assorted groups as ASEAN, Japan, India, Indonesia, China, and... the US??? The organization look like it would be more focused on security ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
My Taiwanese friend who used to be based in Shanghai came up from Hong Kong, where she is now living, to visit me recently. She told me last night that all her Taiwanese friends in town are heading back to Taiwan for the vote this Saturday.
“Wait, do they go back ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Thanks to my friend Liz for sending this to me:
See below reflections on Wu Yi's retiring, by your State Council Information Office (SCIO). That's a really awesome poem. I am sort of in awe of the intersection of poetry and politics.
I feel light all over.
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2008-03/08/content_12000268.htm
Her transcendent spirit and reclusive sentiment ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Speaking to my American friends and colleagues, it has always struck me how China is, rightly, held up as a major issue by US politicians, yet is still largely a marginal issue in UK government circles. Sure, the papers are full of China stories, but, bar occasional state visits or ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
The Chinese Government has recently started an ambitious program of "teaching people how to answer questions." It seems some clever people up top have began to realize that telling journalists to go away is not a solution that will stand the test of time, and proposed the alternate plan of ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I just received an email from an Australian-Chinese friend of mine who, it transpires, played a key role in mobilizing the Chinese community in his local Sydney constituency to vote out prime minister John Howard, who not only lost the election but also looks like he will lose his seat ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
One of the nice things about being an American, is you can talk about American politics with people from all over the world. Whereas, when I tell people that I have the personal phone number of the Czech Minister of Labor, no one seems to give a damn. So when ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Yesterday Jasper Becker, publisher of Asia Weekly and the author of Dragon Rising (among many other titles), gave an informal talk about the 17th National Party Congress (which as Bradley mentioned, began today) , at a dim sum brunch hosted by the Yale Club of Beijing. At some point ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
By Bradley Gardner
The 17th Party Congress begins today, and while there are half a billion rumors being leaked to the media from "party members who wish not to be named," my ears tend to perk up when I hear unsubstantiated rumors that leadership changes will affect the economy in some ...
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