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From tainted exports to exchange rates, climate change to one-child policies, the Middle Kingdom often finds itself at the center of controversy

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April 2009
- Nukes? Climate Change? Love 'Em to Death
  
  Newsweek | Apr 5, 09 6:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Few so-called experts predicted the subprime meltdown or the September 11 attacks, Jacob Weisberg writes in Newsweek —so what else might the pundits be wrong about? Nukes are bad : An influential political scientist “argues that possessing nukes induces restraint and caution, causing irresponsible regimes to behave more responsibly.” Climate change = Armageddon : “Carbon emissions could make the earth more fertile and prevent harm from global cooling, which isn't caused by humans.” More »
- China's Trouble: Lots of Dollars, Little Sense
  
  New York Times | Apr 3, 09 12:39 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China’s recent call for an alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency underlines how much trouble the country is in after years of stockpiling greenbacks, Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times . The Chinese, long unwilling to let the yuan float freely on foreign exchanges, are signaling that they need to be rescued from their own mistakes, but “that’s not going to happen.” More »
- China Plans to Lead Way in Electric Cars
  
  New York Times | Apr 1, 09 7:43 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As US automakers continue their late push into the market for hybrids and electric cars, they may soon have a major new competitor to worry about: China. Beijing, which barely registers in the auto world today, has begun a major investment push and plans to join the world leaders in making electric vehicles in three years and pass them after that, the New York Times reports. More »
- Obama Meets With Hu, Plans Visit to China
  
  Time | Apr 1, 09 10:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Obama and Hu Jintao of China met today at the G20 summit in London and agreed to close cooperation on issues ranging from the economic crisis to global security, Time reports. Obama will travel to China later this year. Meanwhile, high-level representatives will meet in Washington during the summer to launch a "strategic and economic dialogue.” More »
March 2009
- In China's West, Muslims Keep Their Own Time
  
  Los Angeles Times | Mar 31, 09 2:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - There are two time zones in Kashgar, China, and they’re two hours apart. Which you follow depends not on geographic location, but on ethnic identity. The town’s dominant Muslim Uighur minority refuses to set its clocks by China’s single, standardized time, instead using the same wacky, sun-based system as the rest of the planet—a divide emblematic of Kashgar’s ethnic unease, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
- China's Grieving Families Stand Up to Government
  
  Washington Post | Mar 28, 09 11:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new political force appears to be emerging in China—grieving parents. The government, usually quick to crack down on dissent, is giving greater leeway to families hit by recent crises such as the tainted-milk scandal and the Sichuan earthquake, the Washington Post reports. Parents have banded together to demand reparations, and initial government attempts to intimidate them were met with public derision. More »
- China Dials Down Earth Hour for Tibet 'Holiday'
  
  Guardian (UK) | Mar 27, 09 1:21 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Chinese government has had a sudden change of heart about Earth Hour because the eco-conscious event falls during a new holiday celebrating the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet. Cities going dark won't create quite the festive atmosphere Beijing envisioned for the first Serf Liberation Day, so the government is ordering journalists and student groups to scale back their participation, the Guardian reports. More »
- This Rally May Be the Real Deal
  
  BusinessWeek | Mar 26, 09 9:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The tentative rally on Wall Street is reason enough for one economist to feel hopeful: "I’m ready to take another shot at calling the bottom," writes Michael Mandel in BusinessWeek. Since (apparently) bottoming out March 9, stocks have risen 20%, and the reasons behind the climb are genuine. Better policy, signs of economic revival, and historical data all point toward a possible sustained boost. More »
- China Lashes Out at US Report on Its Military
  
  BBC | Mar 26, 09 8:49 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Pentagon report on China's military power that warned of "disruptive" new nuclear, space, and cyber programs has provoked angry criticism from Beijing, who accused the defense department of "Cold War thinking," reports Reuters. The report says that China has been successfully expanding its weapons arsenal, though its ability to wage war remains limited. That led the Chinese foreign ministry to blast the Pentagon for "a gross distortion of the facts." More »
- China Uses 'the Pill' to Stop Gerbil Overpopulation
  
  BBC | Mar 25, 09 4:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Chinese officials have resorted to contraceptive pills to control the exploding gerbil population threatening a fragile desert ecosystem, the BBC reports. The government is placing feed pellets mixed with the medication by the gerbils’ burrows, which damage the roots of what plants survive there. Authorities have tried measures to boost gerbil predators—eagles and owls—but to no effect on the rodent population. More »
- 'Good Nazi' Film Awakens Ugly Ghosts
  
  BBC | Mar 24, 09 4:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new film about a hero Nazi party member is threatening to stir old tensions between China and Japan, BBC reports. John Rabe relates the true story of a German businessman who saved thousands of Chinese from a Japanese massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. China is still simmering over the atrocities, which some Japanese deny even occurred. More »
- China Reportedly Blocks YouTube
  
  BBC | Mar 24, 09 2:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - YouTube is suddenly inaccessible for most of China, the BBC reports. Chinese censors have reportedly blocked the site after finding videos of soldiers beating Tibetans, including monks. China wouldn’t confirm whether or not the site was blocked, saying only that it “is not afraid of the internet.” The graphic videos show uniformed Chinese troops beating a man with a baton; another shows them kicking and choking a monk. More »
- China: Ditch the Dollar as World Standard
  
  Wall Street Journal | Mar 24, 09 9:43 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Highlighting international anger over the sorry state of the US economy, China has called for the dollar to be dumped as the global currency standard, the Wall Street Journal reports. China’s central bank said an International Monetary Fund asset could take over the dollar’s global role, Reuters reports. Russia issued a similar call earlier this month ahead of the G-20 summit next week. More »
- US Condom Maker in Peril as Feds Buy Chinese
  
  Kansas City Star | Mar 23, 09 5:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The sole supplier of condoms to Washington's overseas AIDS campaign is likely going out of business thanks to Asian competition, the Kansas City Star reports. The feds are close to signing contracts with companies in South Korea and China, which charge 2 cents per condom; Alabama-based Alatech charges five. Three hundred American jobs hang in the balance. More »
- Beijing Bids Adieu to Visiting Pandas
  
  Xinhua (China) | Mar 23, 09 3:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Beijing's "Olympic pandas"—which drew 2 million fans during their 10-month stay in the city's zoo—have been returned to Sichuan Province, Xinhua reports. Their original habitat was damaged in last May's earthquake, so the pack of eight will reside in a panda reserve for now. Several will return to Beijing when China celebrates its 60th anniversary in two months. More »
- China Busts 100 Monks After Attack on Police
  
  Associated Press | Mar 22, 09 12:16 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - China arrested almost 100 monks after hundreds of Tibetans attacked a Chinese police station, the AP reports. Police nabbed six while 89 others, almost all monks, turned themselves in, said the state news agency. The uproar appeared to be over a Tibetan who disappeared after he escaped from police, the Xinhua agency said; a Tibetan exile said some 2,000 were involved in the protest. More »
- China-India Friction Rises Amid Downturn
  
  Wall Street Journal | Mar 20, 09 8:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With US demand shrinking, China is looking to India to keep its exports buoyant and buy everything from iron ore to stuffed animals. But although China is its largest trading partner, India's not happy: this year it banned toy imports for safety reasons, and the country has lodged a dozen antidumping cases against China at the WTO. "It's a cause for worry," India's commerce secretary told the Wall Street Journal . More »
- Mushrooms, Green Tea Cut Breast Cancer Risk
  
  AFP | Mar 18, 09 11:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A mushroom a day could keep breast cancer away, according to a study that looked at the diets of more than 2,000 Chinese women. Their rates of the disease are four to five times lower than the worldwide average, and part of the reason may be the chemicals that naturally occur in mushrooms and green tea, reports AFP. More »
- China Prepares for Das Kapital : The Musical
  
  Guardian (UK) | Mar 17, 09 10:38 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Karl Marx's Das Kapital offers hundreds of pages of dense German prose on class struggle and modes of production—so why not add some singing and dancing? That's the idea of several Chinese producers who are mounting a Das Kapital musical, which promises a live band and Vegas-style theatrics to liven up the communist's magnum opus. As the Guardian notes, the team will be adding a barebones plot to make the economic treatise stageworthy. More »
- Tibet's Long History of Isolation
  
  New York Times | Mar 15, 09 4:08 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Isolation has long defined Tibet and fueled the region's exotic history, Edward Wong writes in the New York Times . While China's recent clampdown is purely political—this is the 50th anniversary of an attempted uprising—natural remoteness and anti-imperialist struggles have also sealed its borders. “A large element of Tibet’s historical allure grew precisely out of its isolation,” an expert says. More »

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