AlterNet April 20, 2006

[Editor’s Note: China’s president, Hu Jintao, meets today with President Bush at a time when Chinese relations with the U.S. are tense and likely to get worse. But here Michale Klare takes a look behind the scenes to reveal that American leaders are fighting tooth and nail to keep China from taking over the role of the world’s most powerful nation.] (Keep reading…)

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Le Monde Diplomatique April 2006

The Middle Kingdom convulses with change (Keep reading…)

from World Socialist Web Site 25 March 2006

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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n22/print/nath01_.html London Review of books,17 November 2005

Mao Zedong’s long, wicked life has generated some lengthy biographies in English. Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s is the longest, having overtaken Philip Short’s Mao (1999) and Li Zhisui’s The Private Life of Chairman Mao (1995). It represents an extraordinary research effort. The authors have been working on the project since at least 1986, to judge by the date of the earliest interview cited, which – and this is typical of the access they gained to many highly-placed and interesting people – was with Milovan Djilas. They have visited remote battle sites of the Long March, Mao’s cave in Yan’an, ‘over two dozen’ of Mao’s secret private villas around the country, the Russian presidential and foreign ministry archives, and other archives in Albania, Bulgaria, London and Washington DC. They even tried – and failed – to get access to the Chinese war memorial in Pyongyang. (Keep reading…)

(Washington Post Foreign Service)

XIZHOU, China — A lean worker in a red T-shirt squatted beside the battered police motorcycle and, reaching out with his cigarette lighter, ignited a trickle of leaking gasoline. Flames immediately whooshed to life, witnesses recalled, and black smoke licked up in an oily cloud, signaling that a chaotic strike at Futai Textile Factory had turned into a riot. (Keep reading…)

March/April 2005 Issue

In 1995, representatives from 189 countries gathered in Beijing for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. They were “determined to advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere.” States present — including Canada — acknowledged the “increasing poverty that is affecting the lives of the majority of the world’s people, in particular women and children, with origins in both the national and international domains” and dedicated themselves “unreservedly to addressing these constraints and obstacles” through “urgent action.” (Keep reading…)