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When President Obama hammered out an agreement with leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the waning hours of the U.N.'s climate-change summit in Copenhagen in December, they saved the long-running global-warming negotiation process from total disintegration...
...McGregor, a senior counselor for APCO Worldwide, is a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and author of One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China...
...tells me on a stroll through Bangkok, his second home after London. "It's often food that's been imported from other cultures and assimilated." Satay hails from the Malay-speaking world. Khao man gai, a popular chicken-and-rice dish, was introduced by 19th century immigrants from China's Hainan province; their descendants still sell it on Bangkok streets. Pad Thai, perhaps Thailand's most recognized dish, is also indebted to China. "It's Chinese noodles stir-fried, but with additional palm sugar and tamarind water," explains Thompson. (Read "Food Fit for the Gods - All of Them...
Assessing China's censorship policies in the New York Times...
...Beijing resists the very openness on which it depends. Openness for China is a means to an end--prosperity and development--but not a value. This is the Chinese paradox Google now appears bent on challenging. Google is right to do so ... Like the man who taps phones for a living and comes to believe phone tappers are everywhere, [China] has elevated suspicion to an obsession...