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How Can You Air Your Dirty Linen? — Critiquing the Rio Tinto Case* - Apr 1, 2010 - 11:57:03 AM
Recently, veteran Phoenix TV commentator Anthony Yuen, generally given to nauseating praise of the CCP and extreme “patriotic” stances, used exceptionally blunt language in regard to the Rio Tinto case. He said it was dirty linen not only for Rio Tinto, but for the Chinese people as well.

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Where Krugman is Wrong? - Mar 24, 2010 - 7:20:01 AM
Paul Krugman’s column  in the New York Times on 15 March was entitled “Taking on China.” taking aim at China’s currency manipulation, it recommended the United States implement punitive tariffs on Chinese goods of up to 25%, initiating a full scale trade war.

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The Party’s “New Beijing Consensus” - Mar 17, 2010 - 3:39:16 AM
In 2009 China's economy grew rapidly relying on huge government investment. The consequences have however come as a shock to the Party’s commanding heights. They have become aware that China faces serious risk of simultaneous economic and social crises, resulting in the most serious crisis concerns since June 4, 1989.

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China's Rule of Law is in Full Retreat - Mar 3, 2010 - 9:27:54 AM
Attending today's lunch and hearing so much praise makes me feel very uneasy.   I don't know how many times I have celebrated my birthday this year, and here comes Sun Guodong, hosting yet another event.

The first celebration was with fellow scholars and the second with my family, but I felt like something was missing.  There was no event with lawyers, or rather we might say some lawyers wanted to have a birthday celebration for me but didn't have a chance.  I think today's event might settle that.  However, in listening to these words of praise my ears have pricked up, as I must say you have expressed aspirations I have definitely never fulfilled.  Perhaps it was just the circumstances around me.  Because today the situation for the rule of law in China is grim.  So in these circumstances perhaps your expectations of me are even higher.  But I think I have not been able to do enough.

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China's IDN flop, Who to blame? - Feb 26, 2010 - 7:21:02 PM
On Jan. 21, 2010, ICANN approved the first four internationalized top-level domain names. Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have passed the language character (string) evaluation. An alarming shock to the Chinese internet communities, China being one of the pioneers in IDN policy & development exploration, is not on the list. ICANN declined to comment after its news release when approached by Chinese internet news reporters. Insider source has point the failure directly to Rod Beckstrom, the new ICANN CEO & former US National Security Agency Chief. Did Rod Beckstrom really failed China's IDN application as "inspired" by the US government?