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March 2006



Dangerous Trends: The Hard Truth About the Future of China and Japan

Monday, 27 March 2006 6:57 P GMT+09
Over the last few years, successive poles have seen public opinion of China slipping to record lows in Japan, and public opinion of Japan going into all out free fall in China. But should we worry?
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花見 - Hanami

Sunday, 26 March 2006 12:00 A GMT+09
花見 literally means the ‘flower viewing’, and is one of the most evocative Japnaese festivals. It is celebrated between late March and early April with the exact date depending on the seasonal weather and the region of Japan that you are in.
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Road Kill: Is Beijing Employing 'Japanese Tactics' Against Tibet?

Saturday, 25 March 2006 1:14 A GMT+09
Beijing has this week announced that it is stepping up plans to help the development of the Tibetan economy, but, for some at least, China's tactics in the mountain kingdom seem to bare an uncomfortable similarity to those employed by Imperial Japan.
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Tibet News and Perspectives
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Harmless Entertainment, An Economic tool, or Government Brainwashing: Even Children's Cartoons are Political in China

Monday, 20 March 2006 5:08 P GMT+09
After ignoring them for quite some time, Beijing has suddenly taken a big interest in children cartoon's, but is this new interest about entertainment? Expanding China's economy? Or is it part of something far more sinister?
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Surprise Release: Beijing to drop all charges again Zhao Yan

Friday, 17 March 2006 11:42 P GMT+09
In a surprising turn of events, it has been announced that Beijing is to release jailed dissident Zhao Yan, who has been in custody since 2004, under charges that he revealed Chinese state secrets to his US based employer.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives

The Sino-American Security Dynamic:- Download the Full 2006 “US National Security Strategy” Here.

Friday, 17 March 2006 7:38 P GMT+09
Depending on who you are, and how you read it, the recently released "US National Security Strategy can be interpreted as a step to ensuring greater security, or a very dangerous document. Why not DOWNLOAD it here, in full, and decide for yourself
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-Taiwanese Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives

The rights and wrongs of Buying Back China's History

Wednesday, 15 March 2006 7:21 P GMT+09
China is increasingly keen to see the return of artifacts stolen from it by foreigners, and is using both the law and its new found wealth to achieve this end, but is this really doing China any good, or is it nothing more than a nationalist plot?
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-British Sino-Japanese Sino-Taiwanese Sino-Tibet Sino-Hong Kong News and Perspectives Sino-European
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Wo Ting Bu Dong: Mandarin Fever - American Style

Saturday, 11 March 2006 3:20 A GMT+09
There's a new kind of panic in town, and its all about China. But its not what you might otherwise expect. Its not about China stealing American jobs, or killing Americans. Its about America waking to the fact that very few Americans speak Mandarin.
Category: News and Politics Sino-American News and Perspectives
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The Crazy World of "One China" Politics

Friday, 10 March 2006 2:16 A GMT+09
A "Rude intervention in China's internal affairs", a conspiracy to stir up Anti-Japanese sentiment, or some politicians being stupid. You decide.
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese Sino-Taiwanese News and Perspectives
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The Great Face Game: When is a banned film not a banned film?

Wednesday, 8 March 2006 7:28 P GMT+09
When it comes to banned films, it appears that the only thing that can prompt Beijing to admit to their existence is a chance to: A)Denounce them B)Win face from them Enter "Brokeback" Mountain, the banned foreign film "with a Chinese heart"
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-Taiwanese Human rights and personal freedoms News and Perspectives

A Taste of Spring

Monday, 6 March 2006 4:59 A GMT+09
Being a professed Blossomaholic, I eagerly look forward to the comming of spring each year and to the arrival of its first Blossoms. And while Spring proper might not be hear yet, those first blossoms are.
Category: Off Topic Photographs News and Perspectives

Brothers in Arms

Sunday, 5 March 2006 9:15 P GMT+09
Describing it as being a “just cause”, North Korea has, this weak, released a statement reafirming Pyonyangs support for 一個中國 (The One China Policy), and denouncing any efforts to separate China and its unwilling sibling Chinese-Taiwan.
Category: News and Politics Sino-Taiwanese Sino-N/SKorea News and Perspectives
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Death from Above: The Sino-Israeli Equation

Saturday, 4 March 2006 12:21 A GMT+09
If the threat of Americans being killed by Chinese carrying European made weapons wasn't bad enough, now Washington faces the spectre of Americans being killed by Chinese carrying Israeli made weapons, or worse, by America's own weapons.
Category: News and Politics Sino-British News and Perspectives Sino-European
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The Rabbit Hole: What Kind of ex-pat are you

Thursday, 2 March 2006 6:05 P GMT+09
As anybody who has ever spent any time in China will know, there are many different types of Ex-Pat there. But which one are you? Dare you take the quiz to find out?
Category: News and Politics Off Topic Sino-American Sino-British Sino-Japanese Sino-Tibet Sino-N/SKorea China: A journey Down the Rabbits hole Sino-European
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Taiwanese Independence: What will Chen do Next (Poll)?

Wednesday, 1 March 2006 1:08 A GMT+09
Category: Sino-Taiwanese Sino-Tibet News and Perspectives
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