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...been a vigorous ambassador for China: the pattern was set in 2004, when Hu spent two weeks in South America--more time than George W. Bush had spent on the continent in four years--and pledged billions of dollars in investments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Cuba. While Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, was visiting 15 countries last year, Hu spent time in the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Nigeria and Kenya. In a three-week period toward the end of 2006, he played host to leaders from 48 African countries in Beijing, went to Vietnam for the annual Asia...
...last year alone, three top Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, have made extended trips to the continent. Nor is the relationship simply one of political solidarity among developing nations: China's trade with Africa has quintupled since 2000 and its annual total is expected to hit $50 billion in 2006, and then to double again by 2010. China now imports about a quarter of its crude oil from Africa...
...victim, made its way to alleged mob boss Lau Yat-yin, accused of having its contents?and $50,000?delivered to two assassins from Hunan province. As the three-day trial wrapped up on Friday?the verdict will be given at a later date?an attorney for Yang Wen, the accused shooter, told reporters his client had admitted killing the tycoon and believed he should be executed...
...artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles designed a large sculpture of a throne, accompanied by an image of a galaxy, in Daheny Park, once a dumpsite. In the past few years, her work has routinely been damaged. And a controversial mural on a traffic rotary near Walden Street, for which artist Wen-ti Tsen was reportedly paid $10,000 by the CAC, has been covered with pink paint. Though this is an unusual spike, it’s part of a more unusual trend: the amount of vandalism specifically directed at art pieces in Cambridge has been on the rise over...
...While he acknowledges that such an approach could draw the ire of local authorities, Wen notes that federal agencies such as the State Environmental Protection Administration are actually encouraging grassroots groups to expose environmental wrongdoing. "The problem isn't the limited space available for actions in China's civil society," he says. "[There is] room to take action if you are creative. You have to be bold." After all, he says, given the scale of the environmental problems China faces, "it's not as if we have much time left...