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AGW Today: Earthquake, Teach In, Sea Rise
Pirate's Cove —
... Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, left 80,000 people dead or missing, a growing number of American and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the calamity was triggered by a four-year-old reservoir built close to the earthquake’s geological fault line. ...
AGW Today: Earthquake, Teach In, Sea Rise
Stop The ACLU —
... Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China , left 80,000 people dead or missing, a growing number of American and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the calamity was triggered by a four-year-old reservoir built close to the earthquake’s geological fault line. A ...
Forget It, Senator. It's Chinatown.
Politics Daily —
... It is customary for politicians eager to connect with ethnic voters to butcher a few words in Spanish, Chinese or other foreign tongues. But Ms. Gillibrand is no ordinary politician when it comes to linguistic and cultural comfort: as an Asian studies major at Dartmouth, she studied for six months in China and Taiwan, becoming proficient enough to absorb stories in Chinese newspapers, and later spent four months in Hong Kong as a corporate lawyer. ...
The Green Giant
JustOneMinute —
... tells us about China's commitment to wind and solar power: DUNHUANG, China — As the United States takes its first steps toward mandating that power companies generate more electricity from renewable sources, China already has a similar requirement and is investing billions to remake itself into a green energy superpower. Through a combination of carrots and sticks, Beijing is starting to change how this country generates energy. Although ...
Why You Should Care About Caijing
The New Republic blogs —
... Chinese business magazine, has been thrown into turmoil after a dispute over its editorial policy and business governance led to the resignation of 11 high-ranking executives and nearly 70 other workers from the business staff, according to people close to the magazine. The magazine s general manager, its top advertising executive and the head of its conference unit are among those who have submitted resignation letters. And Hu Shuli, considered the most powerful business editor in China , may be forced to resign from the magazine, which is based in Beijing. The dispute ...
Good News: Russia Looking at China for Inspiration
PoliGazette —
... ’s party, United Russia, is increasingly examining how it can emulate the Chinese Communist Party, especially its skill in shepherding China through the financial crisis relatively unbowed. ...
Talking Budget Cuts Before Seeing Our Lenders (i.e., China)
The New Republic blogs —
... visits China for the first time on Sunday, he will, in many ways, be assuming the role of profligate spender coming to pay his respects to his banker. That stark fact China is the largest foreign lender to the United States has changed the core of the relationship between the United States and the only country with a reasonable chance of challenging its status as the world s sole superpower. The result: unlike his immediate predecessors, who publicly pushed and prodded China to follow the Western model and become more open politically and economically, Mr. Obama will be ...
"Pacific" Means Peaceful
JustOneMinute —
... has steered clear of public meetings with Chinese liberals, free press advocates and even ordinary Chinese during his first visit to China , showing deference to the Chinese leadership’s aversions to such interactions that is unusual for a visiting American president. Past Presidents set a different precedent: Human rights is everyone’s is the prime example. In 1998, President ...
