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November 2005



Cultural Imperialism or Fear and Xenophobia?

Tuesday, 29 November 2005 8:04 P GMT+09
Is America a cultural imperialist? Are music and movies imported from the west damaging Asian culture and the Asian film industry? Should something be done about it? According to one Chinese film legend at least, the answers are yes, yes and yes.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-British Sino-Hong Kong News and Perspectives Sino-European
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Number one for Ko Bunyu

Saturday, 26 November 2005 8:39 P GMT+09
Congratulations are in order. Angry Chinese Blogger has another spot at the top of Google's search ranking.
Category: News and Politics Off Topic Sino-Japanese News and Perspectives
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China Voices: Foreign Trade - A view from the front line

Saturday, 26 November 2005 8:02 P GMT+09
'China Voices', Chinese talking about Chinese issues: Business and Trade
Category: Sino-American Sino-British Sino-Japanese Sino-N/SKorea News and Perspectives Sino-European
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China Speaks

Saturday, 26 November 2005 6:41 P GMT+09
Angry Chinese Blogger is proud to announce the arrival of a new and experimental Podcasting section: China Voices
Category: News and Politics Off Topic Sino-British Sino-Japanese Sino-Taiwanese Sino-Tibet Sino-Hong Kong Sino-N/SKorea News and Perspectives Sino-European

Security Through Hatred

Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:09 P GMT+09
When you get down to it, trying to win allies by spreading hatred is a rather nasty concept. Unfortunately, it is also an effective tactic that is increasingly being used to inflame two of Asia’s most volatile relationships.
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese Sino-Taiwanese Human rights and personal freedoms Includes Translations News and Perspectives
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Sex, drugs and 200,000 tonnes of Copper

Monday, 21 November 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
Liu Qibing, absconded illegal trader, or the unwilling scapegoat for a Chinese conspiracy to manipulate the price of copper that went disastrously wrong?
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives
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Dishing the dirt: What Foreign dignities really think about China

Sunday, 20 November 2005 12:43 A GMT+09
Readers of the English language newspaper the “Mail on Sunday” were treated to a rare glimpse behind the doors of the world’s second oldest hereditary monarchy this month. Unfortunately for China though, what was revealed was less than flatteri
Category: News and Politics Sino-British Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Hong Kong News and Perspectives
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China to America – Tibet is an internal issue, but trade isn’t

Tuesday, 15 November 2005 4:41 P GMT+09
China watchers will already know that ‘face’ is one of China’s driving forces. However, new trends suggest that China may be increasingly being forced to choose between pride and prosperity.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Tibet News and Perspectives Sino-European

Search Engine Ranking.

Tuesday, 15 November 2005 1:57 A GMT+09
Congratulations are in order. Angry Chinese Blogger’s contentious article on the impending replacement of Japan’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine is now ranked number 3 in the BBC search engine and number 9 on Google for searches about “Yasukuni
Category: Off Topic Sino-Japanese News and Perspectives
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Silence is golden

Monday, 14 November 2005 7:15 P GMT+09
Given the current state of the Sino-Japanese relationship, news that a Chinese surveillance vessel was spotted in Japanese waters last week, didn’t surprise many China watchers. What did surprise them though, was Tokyo’s reaction, or lack there o
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese Includes Translations News and Perspectives
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Replacing Yasukuni : Tokyo Takes the First Step on a Long Road

Friday, 11 November 2005 10:53 P GMT+09
Japanese lawmakers took a key step towards mending Sino-Japanese relations this week, when they convened a groundbreaking cross party committee to provide a solution to one of the largest pot-hole on the road to peaceful Sino-Japanese relations.
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese Sino-Taiwanese Includes Translations News and Perspectives
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Cause for Concern?: China Steps up its Probes of Japanese Air Defenses

Thursday, 10 November 2005 8:44 P GMT+09
In September, China reacted with outrage and indignation when it was revealed that the Japanese Defense Agency had labeled it a 'potential military threat'. However, as records now show, Tokyo may indeed have cause for concern.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-Japanese News and Perspectives
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Forgotten voices: 60 years on, Japan's hidden victims win compensation

Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:12 P GMT+09
When it comes to China and Japan, and the former's battle for compensation from the latter, Nanjing, and other WWII atrocities, usually take center stage. Some issues however are more hidden, and it is one such issue that has just been resolved.
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese Sino-Taiwanese Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives

China to America – 'We will choose our friends as we see fit'

Saturday, 5 November 2005 8:44 P GMT+09
There is an old saying in Asia 類は友を呼ぶ:- Similarities call out to friends, and in few places is this more evident the relationship between North Korea and China. A relationship that looks set to evolve, much to the Washington's annoyance.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-N/SKorea News and Perspectives
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Top Ten Ranking (But only Just)

Friday, 4 November 2005 5:02 A GMT+09
After being pushed into the doldrums by some excellent competition (Not to mention being banned in China), Angry Chinese Blogger is proud to announce that it has re entered the Blog-City top ten ranking at number 9.
Category: News and Politics Off Topic News and Perspectives
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Yasukuni Shrine: A Problem With No Single Solution

Tuesday, 1 November 2005 9:39 P GMT+09
Tokyo has signalled that the days of the controversial Yasukuni shrine may be numbers, but questions remain over how to replace it, whether replacing it will do more harm than good, and whether China will ever accept that its legacy is truly gone.
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives
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