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However, the loss of insurance is a state-mandated law, according to Ellison...
...much of the trouble between India and China stems from the accident of geography - that they exist side by side in a very volatile part of the world? The tragedy of continental states is that they have ever shifting spheres of influence that constantly create friction. Geographic proximity has always been one of the main factors in conflicts between great powers on the Eurasian landmass. Neither country can hide away from the other: a kind of increase of influence of one country in a border state is automatically perceived by the other as a loss in its own leverage...
...thereby satiate long pent-up curiosity about the Dalai Lama, or what really happened in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was short-lived. Within hours, mainland censors began blocking access to search results and links, and little had been brought about except Beijing's withering enmity. A State Council Information Office spokesman slammed Google's Hong Kong move as "totally wrong." (See pictures of China mourning the potential loss of Google...
...freedom in China, has revealed a basic truth that was never far from the surface: big companies in China are welcome as long as they serve the interests of the ruling party. Google, obviously and loudly, has failed that test - and has been lambasted by Beijing for, as the State Council put it, "politicizing" commercial issues. (See pictures of China...
...Chinese filters, four of Albanese's employees went on trial in Shanghai on corruption charges. If he still believed (as many in the foreign business community did when the four were arrested in 2009) that the trial was retribution for a soured deal with Chinalco, China's huge state-owned aluminum producer, he wasn't showing it. He wasn't even in Shanghai but in Beijing, making an extremely conciliatory speech at the China Development Forum - a Davos-like conference for dozens of corporate chieftains. Premier Wen Jiabao attended, and global CEOs lined up obligingly for the handshake. (Read "Searching...