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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 2007

    • Big Oil Shut Out Of Iraq Deals

      CNN  |  Apr 6, 07 8:24 AM CDT

      Big Oil Shut Out Of Iraq Deals

      (Newser) - U.S. oil companies are far from first in line as Iraq doles out its initial oil contracts.   China, India—even Vietnam and Indonesia—have the inside track instead, thanks to contracts and infrastructure dating back to the Saddam regime, and more positive Iraqi sentiment. "They have no involvement with the secular or ethnic people," an Iraqi energy analyst says. "The conditions favor them." More »

    • Crisis Shows Isolated Iran

      MSNBC  |  Apr 2, 07 8:09 AM CDT

      Crisis Shows Isolated Iran

      (Newser) - Iran’s abduction of the British sailors and its subsequent belligerence may actually be evidence that international sanctions against the rogue nation are working. Fareed Zakaria argues in Newsweek that Iran’s posturing reflects its growing isolation, after both Russia and China backed U.N. condemnation of its nuclear program. "Tehran appears to be trying to demonstrate that it can push back.” More »

  • March 2007

    • Beijing Ban Spurs Organ Shortage

      Der Spiegel  |  Mar 29, 07 11:14 AM CDT

      Beijing Ban Spurs Organ Shortage

      (Newser) - South Korea has a kidney shortage, and the Beijing Olympics are to blame, Der Spiegel reports. China, attempting to clean up its human rights reputation in preparation the 2008 games, has banned organ trafficking and cut down on the state executions that used to create supply. Now countries that used to rely on this most controversial of Chinese exports are feeling the pinch. More »

    • Old News Rules in New China

      Washington Post  |  Mar 23, 07 2:52 PM CDT

      Old News Rules in New China

      (Newser) - Just about the only Western consumer product the Chinese aren't buying these days is news:  they're clinging tenaciously to their stodgy, state-run nighty news program, where not even the hairstyles have changed in decades. More »

    • China Embraces Private Property

      Economist  |  Mar 9, 07 8:57 PM CST

      China Embraces Private Property

      (Newser) - China's burgeoning middle class will be feeling a little more secure next week, when the National People's Congress is expected to pass the country's first property-rights bill. The measure has become a lightening rod for criticism of China’s leadership, with communists using it as evidence that the government is abandoning the largely rural poor, and urban property owners clamoring for faster economic reform. More »

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Children Celebrate International Children's Day In Beijing   (Getty Images)
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China Prepares For 2008 Olympic Games   (Getty Images)
The sun goes down behind a building in Beijing.
The sun goes down behind a building in Beijing.   (Getty Images)
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Background

China on the Rise
PBS

NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman traveled to China in the summer of 2005 to produce a seven-part series on the Asian nation%u2019s rise as a global economic contender and America%u2019s anxiety that China will overtake the United States as a superpower in the 21st century.

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