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Beijing has many charms for visitors: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, weird and wonderful new architecture, a slew of museums celebrating China's millennia of culture and history. The list is long. But even the most academically inclined out-of-town visitor invariably ends up asking - somewhat sheepishly - whether...
The gaping disparity between East and West was also becoming a big headache for China's policymakers. Fearing disgruntled Westerners would grow unruly, Beijing stepped in seven years ago with an aggressive program to bring balance to the national economy. The government poured money into infrastructure like new airports and...
Consumers in Chengdu are taking a page from the American book on spending, since they appear less interested in saving and more willing to take on debt to indulge themselves. Despite having lower incomes, Chengdu ranks among China's three largest cities in the number of privately owned cars clogging...
The secret to success in cities like Chengdu is going local. French hypermarketer Carrefour, which opened its fifth outlet in Chengdu in January, overhauled its prepared-food department to cook up the chili-laden specialties favored by natives, including marinated rabbit heads and roasted duck jaws. Samsung reopened its operation...
For the first time in a year and half, something vaguely resembling optimism - not a word often used when it comes to U.S. relations with North Korea - surrounds the latest round of the so called six-party talks, which resumed today in Beijing. The talks aimed at getting Pyongyang to...