Beijing
- Debacle in Beijing
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Debacle in Beijing " The story of a blind Chinese lawyer's flight to the US Embassy in Beijing is likely to ignite accusations and recriminations until the US presidential election in November. But what few will acknowledge is a harsher truth: ...
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- India successfully tests nuclear-capable missile
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capable of reaching Beijing and Shanghai, India joined a small club of nations with long-range nuclear ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-20 15:05 - 0 comments
- The Elephant in the Room
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a generation. No other great power’s rise has seen so many well-wishers as India’s. To Beijing’s great ...
The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- In the Picture
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was widely seen as a poke in the eye for Thein Sein’s patrons in Beijing, and coincided with the quick ...
The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The 'Princelings': China's children of the revolution
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The 'Princelings': China's children of the revolution "A red Ferrari pulled up at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Beijing, and the son of one of China's top leaders stepped out, dressed in a tuxedo. Bo Guagua, 23, ...
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- US expands military ties to Australia, irritating China
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US expands military ties to Australia, irritating China "President Obama announced that the United States planned to deploy 2,500 Marines in Australia to shore up alliances in Asia, but the move prompted a sharp response from Beijing, which accused ...
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- Ai Weiwei breaks his silence: Beijing is a nightmare
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Ai Weiwei breaks his silence: Beijing is a nightmare "I really don't know what I'm going to do. My ordeal made me understand ... (Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China, Human rights in China, Newsweek) ...
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- Gendercide
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At worst: “In cities like Beijing, wagons made scheduled rounds in the early morning to collect corpses ... is 167:100. In Anhui province, the ratio for third children stands at 227:100. And in Beijing, the sex-ratio ...
The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-06-10 14:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- From the Chrysalis
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is Republican: “no less a one-party political city than Beijing,” Remnick says. You don’t just walk in and plant ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-11-17 11:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Power Shift: Our future between Beijing and Washington. Hugh White
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The Wheeler Centre Black Inc. 4213474 Part 1 | Part 2 In his Quarterly Essay, Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing , Hugh White considers the rise of China and Australia’s ...
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- Power Shift: Our future between Beijing and Washington. Hugh White (p2)
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The Wheeler Centre 4213422 Part 1 | Part 2 In his Quarterly Essay , Hugh White considers Australia’s future between Beijing and Washington. As the power balance shifts, and China’s influence grows, ...
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- Chinese director's path from rebel to insider
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Chinese director's path from rebel to insider "Last October, at an art exhibition opening in Beijing, Ai Weiwei challenged Mr. Zhao to defend his decision to boycott Melbourne." Video: The encounter between Zhao Liang and Ai Weiwei ...
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- Plan for China's water crisis spurs concern
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million people in Beijing and 12 million in Tianjin alone — has drained underground aquifers that took ... (Beijing, China, Hubei, Tianjin, Water crisis, Yangtze, New York Times) ...
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- Vanity Case
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from Beijing families. I could go on. But, of course, a readymade is not the same as a trompe ... (vanity case, vanity case) (July 2011, Arts & Letters, Arts Festival, Beijing, Painting, ...
The Monthly - Sebastian Smee - 2011-07-01 09:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Foundering Miracle
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it be sure that Washington will always put Tokyo’s interests ahead of Beijing’s if and when they clash? ... to sacrifice its interests for the sake of Washington’s relationship with Beijing. Japan also fears the opposite risk: relatively minor disputes between Tokyo and Beijing could too easily escalate into major ...
The Monthly - Hugh White - 2011-05-13 14:43 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Beastly Travels
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gaze from the poignant plaster dog. The markets of Beijing are dazzling, piled with jade and peculiar ... (beastly travels, beastly travels) (May 2011, Travel Special, Animal Watching, Beijing, Dogs, England, ...
The Monthly - Sonya Hartnett - 2011-05-13 16:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Holiday on Ice
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comfortable train to return us to Beijing, where the night temperature is a nearly subtropical minus 12 ... holiday) (May 2011, Travel Special, Beijing, China, Dance, Harbin, Immigration Detention, Travel, ...
The Monthly - Linda Jaivin - 2011-05-11 14:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Art of Dissent
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to the ‘bird’s nest’ design of the National Stadium in Beijing by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron – built ...
The Monthly - Terry Smith - 2011-06-02 13:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Nobel Affair
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and a free press. Xiaobo decided to return to Beijing. As he said to a friend: “Haven’t we been preparing ... fearing internecine military conflict, decided to evacuate foreign citizens from Beijing. Australians were ...
The Monthly - Linda Jaivin - 2011-03-16 10:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- China's Quarry
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One senior Chinese official told a Beijing mining conference in 2008 that it was not just a good idea ... no competition. According to David Olsson, Beijing partner of the Australian law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques, ... believe the tentacles of the Beijing government reach so far that they can get all their state-owned ...
The Monthly - Paul Barry - 2010-08-09 16:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Land of the Long Black Cloud
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from the Beijing Olympics to fete Crest Mining’s plans to help dig up 800 million tonnes of coal ...
The Monthly - Guy Pearse - 2010-09-02 12:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment
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in Beijing, as talk of a ‘G2’ and a ‘Chimerican’ global order attest. All this raises new and uneasy questions ... dealings with Beijing and highlighted the deeper challenges we face as we learn to live with China’s power. ... Australian History, Beijing, China, Finance, Foreign Policy, The Global Financial Crisis) ...
The Monthly - Hugh White - 2011-01-13 15:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Looking West
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2008, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, found his visit to Beijing unexpectedly cut short ... Canberra would ally itself with Beijing in the same way it had once hidden behind the skirts of London ... to the Bay of Bengal, where Beijing has all but encircled them with yet more bases and surveillance posts. ...
The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2010-03-17 15:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Chinese Whispers
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in the swankiest bar in Beijing’s Houhai district or a cheap polluted noodle cafe in Linfen and regale you ... prestigious universities in Beijing, Qinghua. He also used to own a bar in China. He lives in Chinatown, New ... for fun, just as they don’t follow you around the hutongs of Beijing for half an hour with cheap poorly ...
The Monthly - Alice Pung - 2010-03-17 16:12 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Longer View
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strong relations that Australia enjoyed with Beijing, Tokyo, Jakarta and Washington upon Howard’s ...
Letters to the Editor - Guest - 2009-11-05 08:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
