By: Brian Liu Despite China’s recent economic success, social and economic problems lie just beyond the horizon. These issues include an unsustainable economic model, a failed One-Child policy, and political corruption. The burden of these problems now falls into the lap of Xi Jinping, China’s newly selected leader of the executive politburo committee. In order to remedy such problems, the [...]
It has taken on Cold War-like tones: the United States on one end and China on the other, polarized. What might be one of their gains is another one’s loss, making relations between the two little more than another iteration of the zero-sum game. This likeness to the Cold War has been developing for some years. It began with the [...]
by David Chen GoDaddy.com has made itself very visible in the past few years, largely through its racy commercials featuring crude, sexually suggestive advertisements for its online domain registration services. What it is less known for, though, is being a leader in combating internet censorship in the notoriously restrictive People’s Republic of China. It may not be a revolutionary company [...]
China’s reaction to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to its own Liu Xiaobo has been anything but warm. The government has put Liu’s wife under house arrest and silenced all attempts at celebration. This attitude towards dissidents needs to change.
Obama entered office emphasizing the “mutual interests” that the U.S. shares with China and the “mutual respect” that they have. He hoped that he could get China to cooperate with the rest of the world on important global issues — on Iran, climate change, and China’s currency manipulation. Instead, Obama has been ignored, rebuffed, and even humiliated.
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