Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield, The Saturday Profile: At 86, a Liberal-Minded Party Elder Is Still Jousting With China’s Censors. New York Times, Oct. 17, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/world/asia/17du.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=china%20du&st=cse
Note:
(a) Du Daozheng 杜导正
(b) to foist (vt.): "to introduce or insert surreptitiously" www.m-w.com
(c) Yanhuang Chunqiu 炎黄春秋杂志社
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(1) Melanie Trottman, U.S. to Press China on Drywall; Top Consumer Safety Official Will Ask Beijing to Help Pay for Damage to Home. Wall Street Journal, Oct. 16, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125564911387588795.html
(Chairwoman Inez Tenenbaum of a federal agency Consumer Product Safety Commission)
My comment: there is no need to read the rest, for wwe all know what is going on.
(2)
(a) Matt Moore and Mary MacPherson Lane, German book fair head defends choice of China. Associated Press, Oct. 14, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_en_ot/eu_germany_frankfurt_book_fair
("The event's previous special guests - Turkey in 2008, Korea in 2005 and the Arab World in 2004 - drew similar outcry.")
Note:
(a) Ma Jian/Beijing Coma 马建/北京植物人
(b) Dagmar Yu-Dembski 余德美
(c) Yu Hua/Brothers 余华/兄弟
(3) Yi-Yuan Chang, My mother and sister, prisoners of China's Communist Party. Los Angeles Times, Oct. 13, 2009.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-oew-chang14-2009oct14,0,3580459.story
My comment: The writer conceded her family members were indeed part of Falun Gong movement, but thought that they would be treated differently. They were taken away on June 4, 2009 (yes, that day) and whereabouts have been unknown.
Quote:
"I had assumed they were safe. After all, my mother has Hong Kong residency, and my sister was a successful financial manager with a well-known international corporation. I thought this would give them some level of protection.
Decades ago--which means the period before I cam to US in 1984--Taiwan and the other three tigers/little dragons were doing small contract works, like toys, candies and electronics. For some time, I have looked back and seen
(a) that Hong Kong--and Singapore to some extent--falling more and more behind in electronics; but
(b) that the last two have emerged as financial hubs (particularly Hong Kong), in support of the economics dictum of comparative advantage, a concept credited to David Ricardo who explained it in his 1817 book On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.
(5) “金牌内定”阴影笼罩全运会. BBC Chinese, Oct. 16, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2009/10/091016_china_result_fixing.shtml