http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040701faessay83405-p0/george-j-gilboy/the-myth-behind-china-s-miracle.html

Update: Now behind a paywall

From the page:

“Washington need not worry about China’s economic boom, much less respond with protectionism. Although China controls more of the world’s exports than ever before, its high-return high-tech industries are dominated by foreign companies. And Chinese firms will not displace them any time soon: Beijing’s one-party politics have bred a timid business culture that prevents domestic firms from developing key technologies and keeps them dependent on the West.”

Update 2022: This prediction didn’t turn out so well now did it?

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050901faessay84504/wang-jisi/china-s-search-for-stability-with-america.html

(Now only accessible behind a paywall.)

From the page:

“No country can affect China’s fortunes more directly than the United States. Many potential flashpoints — such as Taiwan, Japan, and North Korea — remain, and true friendship between Washington and Beijing is unlikely. But their interests have grown so intertwined that cooperation is the best way to serve both countries.”

http://www.cocaart.com/e-gallery/online/20021222/20021207a.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20030413203844/http://www.cocaart.com/e-gallery/online/20021222/20021207a.html

Updated 2022: you can find some of my own photos taken at the Shanghai Pass here

http://www.chinapage.com/painting/beihong/beihong04.html

Update: Original page has vanished so I tracked down another copy of the painting

http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html

2005 is the Year of Yiyou, popularly known as the Year of the Rooster

2011 is Year of Rabbit.

2010 is Year of the Tiger.

2009 is Year of the Ox;

2008 is the Year of Rat;

2007 is Year of Pig or DingHai –

2006 is Year of Dog.

2005 is year of the rooster

2004 was the Year of Monkey.

2003 was the Year of the Goat

http://www.howardwfrench.com/photos/Guangzhou-Nan-Hua-Xi-Jie-neighborhood/neighborhood_1

unable to trace these photos – you’ll just have to read through French’s articles on China to see them.

http://www.tech-blog.org/story-2786.html

Update the original is lost but this ‘revolutionary’ design will have fallen by the roadside like all it’s predecessors:

There have been literally hundreds of alternative keyboards made, can’t see why this one will catch on.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/laughing_dragon_dancing_bear.php

Wayback machine link:

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/laughing_dragon_dancing_bear.php

Laughing Dragon, Dancing Bear
The author, Ray McGovern began his 27-year career with the CIA as the analyst for Soviet relations with China and Southeast Asia.

Developing the significance of Russia and The Peoples Republic of China holding joint miltary exercises on Chinese soil for the first time ever in 2005 McGovern postulates that Russia and the PRC are becoming ever closer along the lines of the dictum ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ he writes…

‘The Russians and Chinese look on the quicksand in which U.S. forces are trying to stay afloat in Iraq with mixed feelings: alarm at what they see as unconstrained, unpredictable U.S. behavior, and Schadenfreude at the fiasco brought about by ineptitude on the part of senior civilian defense officials and careerism among the generals, many of whom know better but have not the spine to tell their superiors that the war in Iraq cannot be won.’ Whilst I agree with the general thrust of McGovern’s argument about the consequences of a Russo-Sino military alliance I think he overplays his hand when he says the war cannot be won. Just because America withdrew from South East Asia does not mean the same will happen in Iraq. The argument that America can’t win because it won’t be able to sustain casulaties has been shot to pieces with over 1,300 dead the resolve of the Bush Administration hasn’t weakened. The USA does have the means and more importantly the will to win in Iraq. Whether it will have been worth the deaths of so many is debateable.

http://chinastudygroup.org/

Wayback machine link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040927084608/http://www.chinastudygroup.org/

more news about the world’s most populous country

http://www.danwei.org/

Unfortunately, no longer online . However, thanks to the wayback machine achieved copies can be seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/danwei.org

Media, advertising and urban living in the People’s Republic of China.