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January 13, 2013

Japan og India = sant

Stilt overfor et Kina som blir stadig mektigere styrker Japan og India forbindelsene på alle områder. Les saken
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Published on January 13, 2013 08:23

January 12, 2013

Mao's Greap Leap: Worse Than You Ever Imagined

Last summer I took a trip to Xinyang, a rural area of wheat fields and tea plantations in central China’s Henan province (...) The Xinyang Incident is the subject of the first chapter of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958–1962, the Chinese journalist Yang Jisheng’s epic account of the worst famine in history. Yang conservatively estimates that 36 million people died of unnatural causes,
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Published on January 12, 2013 01:22

India’s rising middle class prefers sons

This nation’s child-gender ratio — the number of girls to boys — is at its most
lopsided in 50 years, as a growing number of couples opt to abort female fetuses
or neglect infant girls in their desperation for sons. Read more
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Published on January 12, 2013 01:07

Mislykket møte for Kina-kremmerne

Norske næringslivsledere fikk i går klart svar fra regjeringen. Utsendingene fra næringslivet forlangte en tydeligere Kina-strategi fra regjeringens side. – Vi har allerede en tydelig Kina-strategi, vi ønsker et sterkest mulig samarbeid på alle områder. Vår dør står vidåpen, og vi følger det opp overalt hvor vi kan, sier næringsminister Trond Giske (Ap). Problemet er ikke Norge, men Kina. Les
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Published on January 12, 2013 01:03

January 11, 2013

Krysantemum - et nytt og farlig symbol i Kina

Kinesiske journalister er lei av sensuren og demonstrerer for pressefrihet. Og midt i striden står en vakker blomst. Les mer
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Published on January 11, 2013 13:54

The Old Fears of China’s New Leaders

The Chinese Communist Party is skilled at estimating the extent of threats and while there is nothing it cannot do, at the moment exemplary arrests will probably deal with the problem in Guangzhou, writes sinologist Johathan Mirsky. Read more
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Published on January 11, 2013 06:55

January 10, 2013

Misfornøyde Kina-kremmere møter regjeringen

I dag får norske næringslivstopper anledning til å ta opp sine bekymringer på et møte med næringsminister Trond Giske og utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide. – Næringslivet er mest opptatt av hva som er regjeringens strategi framover, sier seniorrådgiver i Kina-spørsmål Henning Kristoffersen i Det Norske Veritas (DNV) til NTB. Les mer
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Published on January 10, 2013 23:39

Curse of the ‘Little Emperors’

China is a collosal country and, as befits such a global powerhouse, it has made some colossal mistakes. Take its infamous
one-child policy, implemented in 1979 and condemned from that day forward. A new
study released in Science makes it clear just how
misguided the idea was. Read more
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Published on January 10, 2013 23:34

Can China's journalists win the fight against censorship?

Staff at the freewheeling Guangdong-based Southern Weekly news magazine have published open letters demanding the ousting of the provincial propaganda chief. If they succeed, they could galvanise the media to challenge press restrictions across the country. So what are their chances? Read more
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Published on January 10, 2013 23:20

- Utenlandske krefter sto bak protestene

Offisielle kinesiske medier hevder at "utenlandske krefter" sto bak journalistopprøret i Sør-Kina. Streiken i avisen i storbyen Guangzhou er nå over, og journalistene er tilbake på jobb. Les mer
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Published on January 10, 2013 05:55

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