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Just before traveling to Sichuan yesterday, I had a conversation with a friend in Shanghai who said his parents—both retired—had been asked by the management at the apartment compound they live in to donate to a fund that fellow residents were putting together. They did so happily. Then, a couple of days later, the father [...]
According to a recent AP story , “U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and used the information to try to hack into Commerce computers…..Surreptitious copying is believed to have occurred when a laptop was [...]
The Chinese newspaper Southern Weekend has a fascinating interview (translated here by China Digital Times) with an education official in Sichuan, where thousands of students were killed by school collapses in the May 12 earthquake. Lin Qiang, the deputy inspector of Sichuan’s education department, told the paper that if education officials had done their jobs [...]
