Word: tsinghua
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...property bubble has prevented many citizens from finding affordable housing near Shanghai. "Of course, the developers of these satellite towns want to build luxury homes that they can make a lot of money on," says Mao Qizhi, deputy director of the Institute of Architectural and Urban Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "So you need decision makers in the Shanghai government to say, 'No, we have to take care of the interests of the majority of the people, who aren't rich.' So far, that hasn't really happened...
...minister of the power industry, so his daughter has dealt for years with charges of nepotism. Being his daughter "does come with a lot of tension and, with that, pressure," says Li. "But I've worked hard to get to this stage of my career." Li, who graduated from Tsinghua University with a master's degree in engineering, helped found China Power and worked her way up from vice president. As CEO, the charismatic Li has led the company, which is 67% state-owned and one of China's top five electric-power producers, through two acquisitions. Says...
...talks between the U.S. and North Korea proceed alongside the six-party confab. All in all, China could hardly be happier at the state of its relationship with the U.S. "Powell's trip shows that the U.S. takes China seriously," says Chu Shulong, a political scientist at Beijing's Tsinghua University, "and right now that is enough to keep relations steady." Amid all the hubbub about America's global role, that's a quiet change of historic significance...
...power more intent on diplomatic pragmatism that preserves the country's robust economic growth than on replaying the Maoist rhetoric of confrontation. "Hu puts more emphasis on substance in foreign policy rather than on symbols," says Chu Shulong, director of the Institute of Strategic Studies at Beijing's Tsinghua University, who advises the Chinese leadership on foreign affairs. "[Former President] Jiang Zemin tended to focus more on symbolic victories." Indeed, on a slew of issues ranging from Taiwan to Iraq, China is engaging in constructive policies that finally place the nation within a global context?not outside...
China keeps opening its doors--even the ones in the ivory tower. Beijing's elite Tsinghua University has appointed former Goldman Sachs president John Thornton professor of global leadership, making him the first U.S. businessman to teach at the school since the 1949 revolution. During his 24 years at Goldman, Thornton helped the firm become a force in Europe, Japan and China, where Zhu Rongji, the reformist former Prime Minister and a dean at Tsinghua, was a confidant. Thornton has insisted that he's focused on teaching, but don't expect a globe-trotting rainmaker to spend all his time...