This is an excellent post discussing ethnicity, mentality and sports in China. And quite a good destruction of the China Blogosphere's favourite "Is he a lawyer or not?" celebrity Chris Devonshire Ellis.
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China has succumbed to hubris. It has mistaken the soft diplomacy of Barack Obama for weakness, mistaken the US credit crisis for decline, and mistaken its own mercantilist bubble for ascendancy. There are echoes of Anglo-German spats before the First World War, when Wilhelmine Berlin so badly misjudged the strategic balance of power and over-played its hand.
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As China and other large developing nations became more prosperous, it was always assumed that they would become more like the suburbs of Washington or London—liberal, democratic, market-friendly bastions not only of Western-style consumerism but also of political liberty. With time and wealth, "they" would become just like "us."
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Classic. No matter where you go in the world you can't escape telephone customer "service". Another gem about life on the edge of China.
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The world's shortest man, He Pingping, who was just 74.6cm (2ft 5in) tall, has died in Rome. He was born in 1988 in Wulanchabu, China, with a form of primordial dwarfism, and was officially recognised as the world's shortest man in 2008. He was admitted to hospital two weeks ago after suffering a chest complaint and died on Saturday, but his death has only just been announced.
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It took the onset of World War II to lift the world out of the Great Depression that began in 1929.
Ignore the historical hyperbole that claim Roosevelt’s “New Deal” had anything to do with it. It was war, plain and simple, that galvanized the U.S. manufacturing complex into debt-driven growth, and ended the period of stagnation following the economic contraction from 1929 to 34.
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I have family visiting this week, and as usual one quarter of my living room has turned into a suitcase ghetto. I was sitting on the sofa watching the cats play “King of the Hill” on the luggage mountain when my eyes were drawn to a bright orange tag on one of the larger bags.
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Some things in life are just too good to give up even in the name of your waistline, and these dishes are five of them
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Remember the G-2? America's financial difficulties and foreign entanglements, together with China's economic ascent, led many last year to envisage the emergence of a sort of global condominium between the two countries. The G-8 had morphed by necessity into the G-20, which, whenever it really mattered, would shed its zero: the United States and China would call the shots.
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Western women who love Chinese men have a unique perspective to a woman's experience in China -- which makes their blogs valuable in the blogsphere. Here's my list, in alphabetical order.
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In less than two months the 2010 Shanghai World Expo will start its six-month run. As I’m slowly catching Expo Fever, I thought I’d run through a few of my favourite pavilions, comparing and contrasting what the official word on the structure is with my amateur thoughts and opinions.
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China prefers not to view itself as a global power that needs to take more responsibility in world politics, according to a wordy press statement from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday following the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress. But reality and spin collided at times Sunday as Wen struggled to convince that China is not the world's newest superpower.
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It's always the same round here. Someone opens a new business. It takes off.
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China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related causes of disagreement.
read more »BEIJING // China has gained direct access to the Sea of Japan for the first time in 100 years through a North Korean port, leaving the other two regional players, Japan and South Korea, deeply concerned about the communist state’s ambitions.
read more »The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region.
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China's economy is humming along in high gear, thanks to a fast-growing pile of dicey debt. Such booms tend to end badly.
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I am convinced about 99.9% of all emails go through. But the way I interpret that is that at least one email I send per day will not reach its destination. If I do not hear back from someone rather quickly, I just assume they did not get my email and so I send it again. In other words, I assume the worst.
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China will toughen requirements for reporters by launching a new certification system that requires training in Marxist and communist theories of news, a media official said, citing problems with the current crop of mainland journalists.
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The bubbly enthusiasm that many analysts express about the Chinese economy reminds me of the old-time variety show host Lawrence Welk, who banished worries each week with soothing sounds from his "Champagne Music Makers."
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