China

Magazine articles on politics and society in China and Hong Kong.

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Wired August 2004 Rem Koolhaas	Beijing Manifesto The Chinese love the monumental ambition. They hate the monumental price tag - and the "foreign" design. A portfolio of the grand ideas and grim realities behind the contentious new vision for China Central Television's new office tower.
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Stan Crock	Taiwan: Uncle Sam Wants You To Buy Arms The complex diplomatic dance involving Washington, Taipei, and Beijing gets trickier by the day. The tension will rise this fall when Taiwan's legislature votes on arms-purchase legislation.
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004	Beijing Is Worried About Hong Kong Poll Nervous about losing control of Hong Kong's Legislative Council in elections scheduled for Sept. 12, Beijing representatives in Hong Kong are urging less popular pro-government candidates to quit in favor of more popular ones.
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Dexter Roberts	China's Credit Crunch No interest rate increase. That looks like one of China's big accomplishments in its quest to cool off the economy, but Beijing's go-slow policy is strangling private business.
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Dexter Roberts	Grinding The Rust Off China's Northeast Beijing aims to reverse a long, downhill slide by dumping state factories for software, tourism -- even organic farms.
InternetNews July 8, 2004 Erin Joyce	China Eases Taxes on U.S. Chipmakers The semiconductor industry is hailing a trade deal between the United States and China ending China's tax policy that effectively priced U.S. exporters of integrated circuits out of China's $19 billion integrated circuit market.
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004 Dexter Roberts	Power Shortages Are Zapping China China can't keep up with the soaring demand for energy. Will that hurt the export machine?
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004 Pete Engardio	Dumping: China Strikes Back In its anti-dumping cases against Corning, the inventor and dominant seller of optical fiber, Beijing isn't simply out for revenge.
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Einhorn & Balfour	Hong Kong: How Free A Future? Anger over Beijing's policies toward Hong Kong may soon come to a head
CIO June 15, 2004 Martyn Williams	China Shuts Down VoIP Vendor A man suspected of managing an illegal voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone service in China faces a prison sentence of at least five years if convicted, according to a China Daily report.
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