The Toronto Star reports that Beijing’s Birds Nest has been turned into a snow park:
Beijing is hosting its own version of the Winter Olympics – though the idea may be on thin ice.
Inside the architectural wonder of the capital’s National Stadium, children on rubber doughnuts race in the snow. Teenagers and adults slide slowly down [...]
From the New York Times Op-ed article by Mingxin Pei:
The state of the U.S.-China relationship exhibits classic symptoms of a bipolar disorder — sudden and dramatic swings between euphoria and depression. Barely three months ago, when President Obama was feted in Beijing, it was euphoria. At the moment, when Beijing hurls insults at Washington almost [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
As some of Wall Street’s biggest real-estate investors weigh their next step in China after a bruising downturn, a rush of domestic players are filling the void, raising money and snapping up trophy properties… Domestic investors—including listed developers, private-equity players and wealthy individuals—were buyers in 83% of the deals larger than 100 [...]
From the New York Times:
Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades.
Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development [...]
Sam Sedaei is an international civil resistance trainer, producer and international affairs contributor. He wrote this piece on the Huffington Post:
… ever since President Obama’s inauguration, China has been especially uncooperative on a number of global issues. Kenneth Lieberthal — director of Brookings Institution’s China Center in Washington — says such testy relations in the [...]
Chinese skaters won the pairs gold and silver medals in Vancouver today, for the country’s first-ever gold in figure skating. From AP:China’s Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have won the pairs gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, just ahead of countrymen Pang Qing and Tong Jian.
Germany’s Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy get the bronze.
It was [...]
New technology could hopefully assist in repairing caustic drywall imported from China:
As Florida and other parts of the nation continue to get their hands around the problems caused by home and condo units constructed with Chinese Drywall, there is some promising testing happening in South Florida that may  lead to less costly treatments than having [...]
China is worrying the Indian government by developing the port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka:
Now, China is investing millions to turn this fishing hamlet into a booming new port, furthering an ambitious trading strategy in South Asia that is reshaping the region and forcing India to rethink relations with its neighbors.
As trade in the region grows [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
Economists and politicians from Brussels to Washington say that the Chinese yuan is undervalued. For China’s own good and that of the global economy, they say, the currency needs to move up in a big way, and soon.
So why hasn’t China revalued? Part of the answer is Japan…From Japan’s example, Chinese [...]
From the BBC:
Hundreds of people in China believe they might have a new disease with HIV-like symptoms, but doctors suggest their illness could be the result of a mental rather than a physical condition… This time doctors are blaming a breakdown in trust between the medical profession and patients, who fear they are being lied [...]
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