Tuesday, February 9, 2010 . Yawei Liu: When Things Get Tough… These days, when things turn tough for China, China seems to get tougher. Need examples? Here are some recent ones. Iran continues to move forward with its nuclear program and Western powers want China to join in imposing sanctions against Tehran. ... Read full article ... More Featured Articles ChinaScope 40: China's response to Haiti earthquake: This week's China Scope focuses on how China responded to the ear >> ChinaScope 39: Google's fight in China: The world's biggest internet search engine, Google, says it may s >> State Council Publishes Draft of New Demolition Regulation, Public Debate Continues Following the State Council’s public release of “Regulation Governing Requisition and Compensation of State-Owned Land (Draft)” on its website on January 29, 2010, the Chinese public has engaged in a close analysis of the text of the draft regulation and in debate over both its improvements in comparison ... Read full article - Governance China’s Middle Class Makes Up 23% of Total Population: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences China’s middle class now comprises 23% of its total population, according to a new report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). According to sociologist Lu Xueyi, the middle class had been growing steadily prior to 2000, and was approximated to be 15% in the 2001 national census. However, in the last decade that growth has accelerated. ... Read full article - Society People’s Daily: 70% of Netizens Believe County-level Cadres Are Most Corrupt People’s Daily and People’s Daily Online conducted an online survey to find out which hot-button issues people care most about and most want to see discussed at the Two Sessions. ... Read full article - Selected Translation Chinese reaction to Hillary Clinton’s remarks on Internet freedom Hours before Hillary Clinton gave her speech extolling Internet freedom, He Yafei, a vice foreign minister, met with reporters and expressed his desire to keep the Google incident separate from international diplomacy. ... Read full article - Data & Commentary Zhang Weiying: The main focus for the next thirty years is political reform If we look at reform over a sixty-year span, the emphasis of the past thirty years has been on economic reform. The emphasis of the next thirty years should be on reform of the political system. ... Read full article - Selected Translation Gansu Province to deploy team of 650 online commentators In an article that appeared Monday on Gansu Daily Online, it was announced that the Gansu Provincial government intends to deploy a team of 650 online commentators to interact with netizens on websites, BBS forums, and blogs, in an attempt to guide online public opinion toward a ... Read full article - Media Minimum wage set to increase in cities across China Following the lead of Jiangsu, which announced a 12 percent increase in the minimum wage this month, several other municipalities have indicated they too will raise the minimum wage this year. ... Source: China Labour Bulletin China aide to go to North Korea for nuclear talks - report SEOUL (Reuters) – A senior Chinese Communist Party official will visit Pyongyang next week in what appears to be a move to press North Korea to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks, a South Korean ... Source: Reuters Tainted milk resurfaces At least 100,000 tons of toxic milk powder found in a 2008 scandal, which left at least six babies dead and 300,000 people sick, was not destroyed and may have been sold for human and animal consumption ... Source: Global Times Star US pandas head for China as goodwill ambassadors DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Virginia (AFP) – Two US-born pandas flew off in a giant cargo plane Thursday for a new life in China as goodwill ambassadors to brighten moody US-China relations. ... Source: AFP   Newsletter

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