that for all our desire to effect change, outsiders have little leverage to shape China’s future." ... (China, Human rights in China, New York Review of Books) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-04 15:21 - 0 comments

(China, The Daily Beast) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-03 15:31 - 0 comments

at times, a dark farce. Now, through his own sheer will, his life has come to symbolize, for China ... (China, Human rights in China, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-30 14:55 - 0 comments

Perth Writers Festival 6094359 India and China seem on track for world domination in the next century. So apart from knowing they have a hunger for our minerals, what else should we know? ...

SlowTV - admin - 2012-04-28 19:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

China's crisis: Bo Xilai and the Communist Party  " The tale reads like a primer on the rise of Chinese oligarchs, but it is so ... (China, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-24 14:59 - 0 comments

Bo Xilai said to have spied on other top officials " The story of how China's president was monitored also shows the level of mistrust ... (Bo Xilai, China, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-27 15:03 - 0 comments

North Korea's missile: the China factor " Long before North Korea put the missile on a launch pad, right around the time that the U.S. ... (China, North Korea, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-13 15:13 - 0 comments

India tests nuclear-capable missile "India ’s successful test on Thursday is the latest escalation of an arms race in Asia, where the assertiveness and rising military power of China has rattled the region. By launching a ballistic missile ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-20 15:05 - 0 comments

Death of a Briton at centre of China scandal ... year was thrust to the center of the biggest political scandal to hit  China ’s Communist Party in a generation, as the authorities declared the death a murder and named the wife of one of China's most ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-11 14:57 - 0 comments

Tricky strategies with the US and China "A nyone who is inclined to think that America would defeat China in any strategic contest the way it beat the Soviets has forgotten a vital difference. China's economy works.  For Australia, ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-29 13:53 - 0 comments

Apple's factories in China are breaking ... factories in  China , which assemble millions of iPhones and iPads each year, the independent Fair Labor ... (Apple Inc, China, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-30 14:43 - 0 comments

The god of gamblers " The speed of Macau's growth is breathtaking; for a decade, the economy has ballooned, on average, nearly twice as fast as mainland China's. In 2010, high rollers in Macau wagered about six hundred billion dollars, roughly ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-03 15:06 - 0 comments

(Human rights in China, Tibet, Washington Post) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-02 14:51 - 0 comments

in China's Communist Party " Today's unceremonious dismissal of Bo Xilai, the powerful ... shockwaves across China ... (China, The Daily Beast) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-16 13:59 - 0 comments

to the future of the nation – the rise of China, the global politics of climate change, the need in Australia ... (malcolm turnbull) (April 2012, The Monthly Essays, China, Climate Change, Liberal Party, Malcolm ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Apple Inc, China, New Yorker) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-27 14:10 - 0 comments

China's high-speed building boom " Liu Zhangning was tending her cabbage patch when she saw a tall yellow construction crane ... (Architecture, China, LA Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-09 14:35 - 0 comments

The Retraction and the Finkelstein Enquiry "Recently they aired an episode called Mr Daisey and the Apple Factory, a story about conditions at a factory in China that produces Apple products. It was a hugely popular show. The only problem was, ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-22 14:14 - 0 comments

Four mao too many " Last Wednesday I tried to close my bank account. I won't pretend that the Bank of China is the most Orwellian ... General item (China, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-15 14:25 - 0 comments

and shipped to China. The handsome timber houses in New England sealing ports remain as monuments ...

The Monthly - David Day - 2012-03-01 10:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

For Russia and China, the Arab Spring only offers a warning "Tomorrow's visit to Damascus by Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei ... (Arab Spring, China, Russia, Russian politics, The Independent) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-06 14:16 - 0 comments

He Told the Truth About China’s Tyranny “At the Oslo ceremony, an empty chair was substituted for the absent laureate. Within hours, the words “empty chair” were banned from the Internet in China ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-01-18 14:53 - 0 comments

The Insider "Meet Xi Jinping, China's heir apparent - the cleanest, least offensive, most loyal politician the party could find.  ... Lead item (China, Foreign Policy) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-14 14:03 - 0 comments

Will China break? "I t's impossible not to be worried: China's story just sounds too much like the crack-ups we've already ... (China, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-12-20 14:33 - 0 comments

A Southeast Asian murder mystery " Naw Kham has become a near-legendary figure. So many shipping attacks are attributed to this 46-year-old ethnic Shan that it seems as if the Mekong ambitions of the Asian superpower (China) are being foiled ...

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