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Today, China stands tall and competes with global players. The modern infrastructure encapsulates its march toward a modern lifestyle and the rising social standard mesmerizes those who visit China. Yet, a foreigner in China is still a strange creature.
Corruption has been a global phenomenon and prevalent across our societies in its various incarnations. But in developing countries it has come to challenge the basic morality of our political class and officialdom.
It is sometimes said that numbers don't tell the picture of a man's life. But in the case of Roy Rowan, they are a good place to start.
It is another sign of the growing international impact of China that its economic strength has become part of the discussion on how to resolve Greece's debt crisis.
From my Western point of view, it seems "logical" to wait for the oncoming traffic to pass before trying to turn left, but for a Shanghai driver it is perfectly "logical" to try to beat the oncoming traffic
As it was famously put, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." But when by asserting your opinion you seriously infringe on the rights of others, I say, keep it to yourself.
Phil Zimbardo is one of the world's best-known psychologists. Over 200,000 students in China have used his textbook "Psychology and Life," which is now in its 20th edition.
The Chinese Communist Party completes 90 years on 1st July 2011. Ninety years probably is the longest in the history of any political party to survive. It is the only party in the world to continuously rule the biggest and most populated nation of the world since its liberation.
A century ago, China lived at the mercy of imperialists. Westerners called Chinese the "sick man of East Asia". Foreign powers carved up China as their spheres of influence. It was from this sad situation that the Chinese nation started its regeneration under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Over the past 90 years, the Communist Party of China has achieved great achievements with constant reflections on its zigzagging way forward.
In an increasingly commercialized news culture, where better to be first and wrong rather than last and right is a common newsroom mantra and too many journalists fail to stray far from the press release turnaround treadmill, good investigative reporting often falls by the wayside.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao started a three-country tour of Europe last Friday. It not only helps to foster closer economic ties with those countries, but also signals China's desire to diversify both the currency and asset structures of its foreign exchange reserves.
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