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While China's exports suffered serious impact from the financial crisis, a Beijing-based private enterprise has completed the acquisition of the largest overseas commercial property development project so far. On December 23, Wu Li, president of the Beijing Toward Group announced the group had acquired a very large commercial shopping center in the United States. According to Wu, the shopping mall his company acquired is located in ...
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Reports that China single-handedly torpedoed Copenhagen have caused great distress among those who believe that the conference’s failures spell doom for our planet. Mark Lynas of the Guardian, who witnessed the train-wreck first-hand, provides this insightful and engaging account of conference events. He concludes the article with a passionate indictment of China’s role in the international community: Copenhagen was much worse than just ...
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From BBC (emphasis added), Leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been jailed for 11 years for inciting subversion of state power , after a trial condemned in the West. [...] Mr Liu is a prominent government critic and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests. A writer and former university professor, he has been in jail since 2008, after being arrested for writing a document known as Charter 08. The ...
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BEIJING -- China's leading dissident, Liu Xiaobo, expects to receive a long prison sentence Friday on charges that he had incited subversion to state power through his writings and role in Charter 08, a petition advocating greater freedom and democracy. The case has sent a signal that the Chinese Communist Party will continue to stifle domestic political critics, especially those who seek to organize their fellow Chinese. And it provided ...
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China has accused foreign diplomats of meddling in its internal affairs, after some were critical of the trial of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The country's foreign ministry urged those who had expressed concerns about the trial to respect its legal process. Spokeswoman Jiang Yu said the criticism was a gross interference in China's internal affairs. Dissident Liu Xiaobo is on trial for inciting subversion of state power . A ...
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