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www.rfa.org — DANDONG, China—A freezing December wind rakes across northeast China, as a group of seven children sit in a circle in the living room of a missionary's Dandong apartment, a stone's throw from the border with Stalinist North Korea.

www.wired.com — Google appears to be content to remain in China doing business as usual while it finds a way to work within the system, according to one of the search giant’s founders. This despite a strong statement 30 days ago that it would stop censoring search results in China and possibly pull its business out of that country.

ecumenicalbuddhism.blogspot.com — It is believed that no country in the world has ever adopted a color in such a thoroughgoing way as China, where red is a symbol that gives color to the soul of the nation. In the past, red stood for dignity and mystery. Even now, we adore the color much more than we love it. It is can be said that 'China Red' is an eternal theme for China, and an essential color for the Chinese people.

photo.newsweek.com — Over the past few decades, China has undergone what is considered one of the fastest and most far-reaching national metamorphoses in human history. Isolated and impoverished at the end of Mao’s reign in 1976, China now has the world’s most dynamic economy. The next step is to maintain order without inhibiting economic growth.

www.nytimes.com — Deep inside a Chinese military engineering institute in September 2008, a researcher took a break from his duties and decided — against official policy — to check his private e-mail messages. Among the new arrivals was an electronic holiday greeting card that purported to be from a state defense office.