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China, Olympics & Politics – Opinions
April 11, 2008, Comments Off on China, Olympics & Politics – Opinions

April 11 Gwynne Dyer: Controversial flame has never burned brightly (New Zealand Herald) What’s actually colliding ...

China, Beijing Olympics
April 8, 2008, 3 Comments

 See also Tibet and The Olympic Protest Primer April 24 China to clear out students, refugees before Olympics Beijing & ...

Chinese biofuel 'could endanger biodiversity'
March 18, 2008, Comments Off on Chinese biofuel 'could endanger biodiversity'

Jatropha curcus Flickr/jurvetson [BEIJING] Using China’s forests and ‘idle land’ to produce biofuels c ...

The Great Leap Backward?
March 3, 2008, Comments Off on The Great Leap Backward?

March 3 2008 Brazil’s lesson for China: do not ignore inequality“: (FT) In the late 1960s and 1970s, when Brazil ...

Wednesday Night #1356
February 27, 2008, 4 Comments

We welcome two new faces this week, guest experts, who bring knowledge of at least three extremely pertinent topics to t ...

China imposing green policy on companies
February 25, 2008, 1 Comment

February 25, 2008 (Reuters) Beijing has put into effect a “green securities” plan aimed at making it harder ...

Wednesday Night #1353
February 6, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1353

If there’s anything going on in the world besides Super Tuesday, it’s hard to discern it in the media, wheth ...

Wednesday Night #1348
January 2, 2008, 4 Comments

2 January 2008 Oh Come all Ye Faithful Pedant and Insightful Oh Come Ye, Oh Come Ye to Wednesday Night. Come and be clev ...

Beijing’s Olympic Quest: Turn Smoggy Sky Blue
December 29, 2007, Comments Off on Beijing’s Olympic Quest: Turn Smoggy Sky Blue

China’s unsolved riddle is how to reconcile fast economic growth with environmental protection. But Beijing’s Olympi ...

Asia in 2008
December 20, 2007, Comments Off on Asia in 2008

20 December 2007 The Economist The Olympics put China on the international stage IF THIS is to be the Asian century, fut ...