China Economic ReviewChina’s top family-planning official announced that the country would maintain its current family-planning system for at least a decade, ending speculation that the so-called "one-child policy" would be revised, the Wall Street Journal reported. The current set of family-planning policies, which limit most urban families to a single child, will "be kept unchanged at this […]
China says it has thwarted a planned terrorist attack on the Beijing Olympics, AFP reported, citing state media. State media reports quoted officials at the National People’s Congress as saying police officers had killed two militants and arrested 15 in northwest Xinjiang region in late January during a raid. Wang Lequan, Xinjiang’s Communist Party chief, […]
China’s Foreign Ministry said the hijacking of a tour bus with 10 Australians on board by a Chinese man in Xi’an was not an embarrassment for the country ahead of the Olympics, AP reported. The Australians were taken hostage by a man with bombs strapped to his body, who was eventually shot dead by a […]
China is in discussions with the US and North Korea in an attempt to restart talks about terminating Pyongyang’s nuclear program, Reuters reported. Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei said that China has used "all kinds of means" to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table and that discussions were ongoing. China is the […]
In recent weeks, a trend in the US Democratic primaries has been the increased tough talk on globalization and its effects on America’s manufacturing sector. This is a topic – surprise, surprise – that strikes chords in states like Ohio. Senators Obama and Clinton have been one-upping each other in speeches and debates on the […]