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Despite its sprawl, Beijing is surprisingly walkable, at least within the 3rd Ring Road. City planners will have to work hard not just to preserve, but further enhance the capital's walkability.
Although Zhou Qifeng, President of Peking University earned his master's and doctorate degrees from a university in the US, he thought US education is in an awful state.
When the Chinese government states that the most important contribution China can make to the world economy is for its own economy to grow successfully they are not engaging in platitudes. They are articulating the truth.
We are a country of 1.3 billion, yet so few of the people are fully engaged in the so-called global sport. What can we learn from this?
With 400 million native English speakers in North America and Europe, and a further 400 million Chinglish speakers, one wonders what international English is going to look and sound like in 50 years.
It has been 10 years since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. This emerging economy has been working hard and making progress on intellectual property protection, but developed countries still find fault time and again.
At a time when global business performance declined dramatically, multinational corporations maintained a stable or high profit level in China, which has helped strengthen their confidence investing in China.
China's protection and preservation record is poor, but that is no reason for other countries to feel smug. The west might want to clean up their own abattoirs and cages before they start casting too many stones.
Chinese kids don't have time for sport. Chinese kids work too hard. Asian-American kids are being refused university places because they are stereotyped as "boring" and "overworked".
Employment-related discrimination needs urgent action, as people living with HIV continue to be denied jobs because of their HIV status; are fired if their status is revealed; or their career prospects are limited if they admit to living with HIV.
In China, polls show people believe society is generally going forward; therefore, there is no echo for the general US and European 'Occupy' movement – simply interest in it.
The loss to Iraq was the last straw. For millions of football fans across China, the humiliating elimination from the 2014 World Cup was the proverbial nail in the coffin of the nation's soccer hopes and dreams.
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