Chinese and US Bluffs

Taiwan had a chance to prove to the world, and most of all to China, that a free democratic election is a just and righteous method for choosing leaders. That chance was blown, and now with angry opposition protests raging across the island screaming "invalid" and...

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China: Whining Victim or Great Power?

In the weeks following Dr. Khan's confession, the network he used to improve Pakistan's military technology and enrich himself and his laboratory has led IAEA inspectors into a rat's nest of businessmen from Malaysia to Colorado. Conspicuously missing from the...

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Iron Stomachs

There is a story I have been hearing lately that goes something like this: "A Japanese Dairy Group opened a factory in China and began processing dairy products for consumption in Japan. The Japanese, being both fastidious and organized in character, kept the factory...

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Can China Keep Up the Pace?

A recent study by a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences claims the emerging Chinese middle class is a myth. All those interviewed who believe they are middle class, are actually deluding themselves or lying. Or are being lied to. A concurrent stream of research by the...

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Chinese Beats

There is an air of expectation drowning out the thumping disco music in the private room rented out to celebrate old friends meeting again. Three or four bottles of Chivas are scattered amongst the dice and glasses and plates of fruit and one of the girls is pouring...

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Another Christmas in China

December 27, 2003 Another Christmas in China Christmas in Chengdu has reached great proportions. Shopkeepers have seen the frenzy with which people shop during the holidays and they therefore adorn their storefronts with Christmas trees, snowflakes and white-lettered...

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Taiwan, the Errant Son

Except for maybe Sichuanese and (Inner) Mongolians, Chinese aren't really the fist fighting type. Of course a fight breaks out every second in a country of 1.3 billion, but relatively speaking, most Chinese will yell and point and have the neighbors gather before they...

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China’s MBA Craze

I was the basketball coach at the First Annual Chengdu MBA Student Basketball Tournament last week. The four biggest universities in the city (and Sichuan Province for that matter) all fielded teams: Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Southwest...

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Anti-Fools of the World Unite!

I think Americans would be surprised to know how conservative the views of many Chinese are concerning such "mutual" problems as Iraq, North Korea, terrorism and the whole world order as it is now. Of course, young Chinese males with internet access tend to rant on...

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