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...Thursday afternoon, and the aisles at the new Wal-Mart in Shanghai are about as packed as they can get. The food sections are jammed, as are electronics and household goods. Most of the products that fill Wu Jingqing's shopping cart are made in China. But not all of them. In the DVD and CD sections, Wu looks for a children's movie for her 6-year-old. This is the real thing she's buying?a DVD of Beauty and the Beast priced at $1.85 that is absolutely, positively not one of the pirated versions for which China...
...Chinese housewives buying genuine American DVDs at a Wal-Mart in Shanghai is about as close to trade nirvana as it gets for the U.S. these days. If there were more?lots more?Chinese with Wu's buying habits, the strident anti-China rhetoric coming from Washington could be dismissed as election-year political theater, rather than portents of a potentially damaging rupture in the commercial relations between the two countries. Simply put, China sells far more stuff to the U.S.?more than $200 billion last year?than the U.S. sells to China, a situation economists (and many politicians...
...visible foot is treading on the invisible hand." WU JINGLIAN, Chinese economist, bemoaning the bureaucracy and opposition to reform that he said are hurting China's economic growth, during last week's National People's Congress in Beijing...
...links are vital, slicing the intricate mesh of hip-hop’s connections into easy “lineages” of progressive influence and success, as a conventional exhibition format is likely to do, is antithetical to the genre’s amorphous structure. Underground pioneers the Wu-Tang Clan hint at this dilemma when they ask nostalgically, “Can It Be All So Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic, all-American mythos that draws on everything from...
...power of the Net. They realize that most people aren't going to use it to rally for democracy; they're going to do what Americans do: gossip about celebrities, check the weather, play games and score porn. So the Internet police mostly leave that stuff alone. Wu says the state of the Chinese Internet is even more ominous than total control: "It feels almost normal, so people don't think about what it is they can't get." If anything, the Web has been a galvanizing force for Chinese nationalism. The anti-Japanese riots that broke out last year...