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China – Another Internet Clampdown

The Chinese government, feeling threatened by the flow and exchange of information among its 100 million Internet users, announced yesterday the imposition of new regulations intended to limit access to news and commentary not pre-approved by the government’s Propaganda Department. The new rules will allow only the posting of “healthy …

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China’s Bourgeois Bandwagon

The bourgeois bandwagon is steaming along at full speed in China, as, spurred by government efforts to further boost average per-capita living space and private home ownership, residential building construction activity will advance at an estimated 8.8 percent annual pace in real terms through 2009, greatly outperforming other major national …

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