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  <title>Yawei Liu: When Things Get Tough… </title>
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    <![CDATA[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. ]]>
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  <author>Ahthor:Yawei Liu</author>
  <pubDate>2010-2-4 22:18:30</pubDate>
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  <title>Sweeping Africa under the rug: where is China in Darfur?</title>
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  http://www.chinaelections.net/newsinfo.asp?newsid=20529
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    <![CDATA[China’s “hands-off policy” in Sudan threatens to destabilize the development the Chinese government desperately seeks to promote. The Chinese government should consider political pressure on the Khartoum government to clean up its human rights record and bring about peace]]>
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  <category>focustoday</category>
  <author>Ahthor:Emily Dawes</author>
  <pubDate>2009-7-21 21:25:47</pubDate>
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  <title>For China’s youth, Yao trumps Mao</title>
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    <![CDATA[Yao is a child of globalization and is emblematic of a generation whose members have embraced foreign technologies and cultural practices, and indeed, an entirely different sport from the traditional national pastime, soccer.]]>
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  <category>focustoday</category>
  <author>Ahthor:Fleming Lei</author>
  <pubDate>2009-7-16 3:28:11</pubDate>
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  <title>State Council Publishes Draft of New Demolition Regulation, Public Debate Continues</title>
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    <![CDATA[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]]>
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  <author>Ahthor:Jennifer Grace Smith</author>
  <pubDate>2010-2-5 3:51:15</pubDate>
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  <title>China’s Middle Class Makes Up 23% of Total Population: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences</title>
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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  <author>Ahthor:Jennifer Grace Smith</author>
  <pubDate>2010-2-4 23:00:19</pubDate>
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  <title>People’s Daily: 70% of Netizens Believe County-level Cadres Are Most Corrupt</title>
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    <![CDATA[ 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. ]]>
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  <author>Ahthor:Jennifer Grace Smith</author>
  <pubDate>2010-2-1 23:03:13</pubDate>
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  <title>Chinese reaction to Hillary Clinton’s remarks on Internet freedom</title>
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    <![CDATA[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. ]]>
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  <category>Pic News</category>
  <author>Ahthor:Rose Scobie</author>
  <pubDate>2010-1-27 23:49:56</pubDate>
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  <title>Zhang Weiying: The main focus for the next thirty years is political reform</title>
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  http://www.chinaelections.net/newsinfo.asp?newsid=22619
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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  <author>Ahthor:Zhang Weiying, Translated by Rose Scobie</author>
  <pubDate>2010-1-26 7:26:07</pubDate>
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  <title>Gansu Province to deploy team of 650 online commentators</title>
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    <![CDATA[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 ]]>
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  <category>Pic News</category>
  <author>Ahthor:Jennifer Grace Smith</author>
  <pubDate>2010-1-22 2:49:47</pubDate>
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