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Edward Snowden's Leaks May Actually Strengthen U.S.-China Relations
With the issue of cyber-snooping out in the open, Beijing and Washington are now on a more equal footing.
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May You Live in Interesting Times: China's Leader-Legitimacy Problem
For the first time in its history, the all-powerful Communist Party has no clear way to guarantee a smooth power transfer.
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Why Chen Guangcheng's Arrival in the U.S. Is Also a Victory for China
The country's leadership, long sensitive to the embarrassment of releasing dissidents, is showing more confidence and flexibility.
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Fang Lizhi: China's Andrei Sakharov
The speeches of the astrophysicist Fang Lizhi have galvanized students and given political discourse in China a new depth of field, and although he has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party his influence is undiminished
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When a Rising China and a Humbled West Meet, Who Bows Deeper?
It's a centuries-old question that's taking on new significance as the two ends of the world come together, on slightly different terms.
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How Walmart Is Changing China
The world’s biggest corporation and the world’s most populous nation have launched a bold experiment in consumer behavior and environmental stewardship: to set green standards for 20,000 suppliers making several hundred thousand items sold to billions of shoppers worldwide. Will that effort take hold, or will it unravel in a recriminatory tangle of misguided expectations and broken promises?
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Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao
A recent return to deifying Mao is less straightforward than it seems
