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But having already contended with a noisy democracy movement in Hong Kong, Beijing has no taste for another in Macau. So the city's government is starting to tackle local problems. It is in the process of revising labor laws to provide greater protection for local workers, and in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Split Personality | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

Of all the buzz around the Beijing Olympics, the most puzzling is the idea that the Games will "introduce" Americans to China. The world's oldest civilization? Home of 1.3 billion people? Tireless exporter of goods and importer of jobs? Introduced? Haven't we already met?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Panda Paradox | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

Contemporary China is a trickier subject. It's vibrant and fascinating but also an economic rival with human-rights and environmental issues. And for the corporations that run studios and cut distribution, satellite and Internet deals with Beijing, it's a vast market with a growing middle class--and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Panda Paradox | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

It may be just as well that pop culture doesn't want to take on China, given its history of cold war demonization and Charlie Chan caricatures. But the news media covering the Olympics don't have the luxury of ignoring it. Broadcasters have found their access restricted by China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Panda Paradox | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

SUN WEIDE, chief spokesman for the Beijing Olympics organizing committee, on restricting press access to certain overseas Internet sites despite earlier claims that the media would not be censored

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

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