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300 pieces of silver are not buried here
THE AFFABLE BBC foreign affairs correspondent, Hugh Sykes, suggested in an item on Radio 4's Broadcasting House at the weekend that British journalists, at least, ought to take it a little easier on the Chinese over the next few weeks. He interviews a white-collar Shanghai office worker who criticizes the obsession with human rights and democracy. The Chinese system works, and "no one can say who is better," says the worker.
A call for multicultural moral relativism if there ever was one.
"If you disagree with that, perhaps you should prepare for this," said Sy...
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Big Oil, is our cheque in the post?
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CLIMATE CHANGE catastrophists routinely accuse their opponents of being in the pay of Big Oil, but in at least a few cases, it is rather less sinister than that. It is more that they are tired of listening to the likes of George Monbiot of The Guardian loftily calling upon governments to force ordinary people to make punitive sacrifices o...
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Garbage and the Green Games
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IN ONE of Beijing's southern suburbs - where a multitude of tenements, industrial units and gated apartment complexes have been built over the last two decades to accommodate the city's ceaseless growth - the government has been pleading with angry local residents to shut up. A small group of concerned citizens were planning to meet at the wee...
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Shanghai protects environment shock
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IN 1805, seven of the most powerful pirate groups in China decided to form a federation, whereupon they carved up the coast between them. Eventually, the British Navy turned up, and using Hong Kong as their base to trade tea, silk and opium, they sought to set up a pirate-free zone all along China's eastern seaboard. During a routine patrol of the ...
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Rock the Kashgar
AFTER A day and a half or so in the barely tolerable sub-...
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Yang Rui's Monologue
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Hua Guofeng (1921-2008)
CHINA HAS been plunged into a state of unmitigated indiff...
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