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My good friend Taide brought an article to my attention: “Can Fenqing or Angry Youths Think for Themselves?”
The Can Fenqing or Angry Youths Think for Themselves article (in the following: angry article or angry author) refers to an earlier article by Jamil Anderlini in the Financial Times.
I have no doubt that [...]

Liu Xiaobo’s wife Liu Xia 刘霞 was granted a short visit to her husband in custody on 1 January 2009, according to Liu’s lawyer Mo Shaoping 莫少平 in an interview with Radio Free Asia.  Liu has been detained since 12 December 2008 in connection with his role in the drafting, signing and disseminating [...]

A certain Dr Bittner is going back to South America to volunteer with a small clinic, according to his website earlier this month, quoted by the Daily Mail. There were two more possible reasons for his departure: several patients filed a lawsuit against his practice for allegedly allowing his unlicensed girlfriend to carry out operations [...]

The owner is a little worried the hotel might be perceived as a brothel.
      

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC, 国家发展和改革委员会 or 发改会), a macroeconomic management agency under the state council,  has lowered fuel prices with effect from December 19 as follows, according to Jiangsu News:
from 6,480 to 5,580 Yuan per ton for gasoline; from 6,070 to 4,970 Yuan per ton for Diesel; and from 7,450 to 5,050 Yuan per ton for aviation [...]

Hello Children,
here is another patriotic piece which warms my heart.
“We Chinese are just too good and honest, too honest to other people. China was bulied by other countries all the time, but we never bully other people for our own dignity but are still criticized by the values of others. *Sigh* We are just too [...]

Helmut Schmidt, German chancellor from 1974 to 1982, and co-editor of Germany’s big weekly Die Zeit for most of the time since, turns  90 this week. He’s an icon in Germany, for being an ostensibly uncaring know-it-all, for his hard work, for regaining an unexpected amount of trust abroad for his country after its only [...]

Cabbage doesn’t find as many buyers this year as expected. The wholesale price in Zhifang Township, Ruzhou (汝州), Henan Province, was around 6 Fen per kilogram in early December, according to dahe.cn, and it was six Mao per kilogramm a year ago, according to that source. Last year, farmers could count on buyers from places [...]

Be nondirective, make
your few words precious.
When the work is done, end
gained, everyone will say:
We did it by ourselves,
naturally.                     –  Tao Te Ching, 17
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China’s state chairman Hu Jintao yesterday praised the achievements made during the past 30 years of reform. He also said that that China would never adopt a “Western political system” - the success of [...]

The Times Blog posts an excerpt from a speech to the United Nations by Deng Xiaoping in April 1974:
If capitalism is restored in a big socialist country, it will inevitably become a superpower. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which has been carried out in China in recent years, and the campaign of criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius [...]