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Obama og Xi: Finner de tonen?

Analytikere håper president Barack Obama og Kinas nyinnsatte president Xi Jinping finner tonen når de møtes i California i dag. Et personlig vennskap kan føre til økt samarbeid mellom de svært forskjellige supermaktene. Les mer

The California Summit: Obama and Xi

President Obama and the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, will meet June 7–8 in California. The meeting has been characterized as a way for the two to establish a personal relationship and build trust. This would all be well if it were President Obama’s first year in office and Sino–American ties were on a sound footing. But it is not and they are not. Read more  Top

Elite in China Molded in Part by Tiananmen

This year is the 24th anniversary of the bloodshed, and the first under a party leadership dominated by officials with such intimate and ambivalent ties to the events of 1989. Many top leaders served their political apprenticeship in the 1980s, when the boundaries between the permissible and the forbidden were not as stark and heavily policed as they are now. Read more

China on a charm offensive in Latin-America

With smiles and, of course, money, China is on an unusual charm offensive to win the love it thinks should accompany the country's economic rise. Hardly any Chinese have heard of Trinidad and Tobago, but Xi and his singer wife, Peng Liyuan, lavished the nation of 1.3 million with a three-day visit. It was a deliberate calculation for Xi to touch down in the Caribbean before his two-day summit

Chen Xitong, Beijing Mayor During Tiananmen Protests, Dies

Chen Xitong, the mayor of Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, died on Sunday, two days before the 24th anniversary of the armed crackdown he had championed. He was 82. “He was a tragic figure; he was a puppet used by more powerful people,” said Yao Jianfu, a former official and government researcher in Beijing, who published a book in Hong Kong last year based on his

The Himalayas Are Changing – for the Worse

 Research conducted by experts from the University of Milan shows that the snowline in the Everest region of the Himalayas, also known as the Khumbu region in the northeast of Nepal, has receded by 180 metres in the last 50 years, while glaciers have shrunk by 13 percent. Read more

Jeg reiser til Bhutan. Blir du med?

I februar neste år reiser jeg til India og Bhutan. Å få adgang til Bhutan, omtalt som Himalayas "Shangri-La", er ikke lett. Nå får du sjansen til å utforske det naturskjønne landet - templene, klostrene, borgene, fjellstiene og den lille hovedstaden Thimpu. Les mer

Kina bygger verdens høyeste boligblokk

På en slette utenfor byen Changsha i Hunan-provinsen i Kina begynner byggingen av verdens høyeste boligblokk. Den blir på 170 etasjer og får plass til 30 000 beboere. Arkitektene hevder at dette er den mest bærekraftige måten å bygge på. I tillegg til de mange leilighetene vil komplekset bestå av drivhus og "organiske bondegårder", tennisbaner og basketballbaner, svømmebassenger, parker - og 92

Kina vil erobre superdatatronen

Kineserne gjør krav på å ha oppdaget nullet. Nå har de bestemt seg for å bygge verdens største supercomputer. Les mer

Deaths must spur China to act on land reform

The deaths of three farmers in Henan, Hubei and Sichuan — killed separately
while protesting against the requisition of their land — have made the central
government sit up.
On May 13, the Ministry of Land and Resources warned officials to enforce
rules against illegal land grabs. Read more