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		<title>The Men On The Moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The call by Newt Gingrich, the American politician who is seeking the Republican party&#8217;s presidential nomination, for the U.S. to establish a Moon base &#8220;by the end of my second term&#8221;, which, if it happens, would be 2020, throws down &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-men-on-the-moon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7509&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IMF Sees Sharp Dip In China&#8217;s Growth</title>
		<link>http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/imf-sees-sharp-dip-in-chinas-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund has sharply cut its forecasts for China&#8217;s growth this year and next. In its latest half-yearly update to its World Economic Outlook, the Fund has reduced its forecast for 2012&#8242;s GDP growth to 8.2% from the &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/imf-sees-sharp-dip-in-chinas-growth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7506&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little Imminent Prospect Of Peace Along China&#8217;s Myanmar Border</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slow progress is being made at the truce talks China is hosting between the Myanmar government and the autonomy-seeking Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). Two more days of talks were held last week in Ruili, a border crossing town on the &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/little-imminent-prospect-of-peace-along-chinas-myanmar-border/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7494&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tang Dynasty Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Bystander&#8217;s eye was caught by an assertion that modern-day China aspires to be a latter-day incarnation of the Tang dynasty. It was made by a serious figure. David Daokui Li is a worldly and respected academic economist, well-known in &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/tang-dynasty-redux/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7480&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The acquisition by China Investment Corp., China&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund, of an 8.7% stake in Thames Water, which supplies water to 14 million consumers in southern England, may prove in time be a precursor to more Chinese investment in European &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/still-water/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7472&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Cities Astride A Social Fault Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than half of China&#8217;s population now lives in cities, as has been widely noted, making the country predominantly an urban nation for the first time. Two-thirds to three-quarters will likely do so by 2020. It was one in nine when Mao &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/small-cities-astride-a-social-fault-line/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7444&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank Sees China&#8217;s Growth Decelerating Into 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank&#8217;s latest Global Economic Prospects makes grim reading. It forecasts that the continuing ripple effects from the 2008 global financial crisis will slow world economic growth to 2.5% this year, with the eurozone contracting. In June, the Bank &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/world-bank-sees-chinas-growth-decelerating-into-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7434&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Companies&#8217; Growing Role In Natural Disaster Relief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multinationals are taking an increasingly prominent relief role in humanitarian disasters, including those in China. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, has put the subject under its microscope, finding that corporations have become a central &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/companies-growing-role-in-natural-disaster-relief/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7421&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Economy Slowing But Not Faltering Enough To Force Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s economy continued to slow in the fourth quarter of last year, though not by as much as many economists, if not us, had expected. Gross domestic product rose by 8.9% in October to December, compared to the same period &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/chinas-economy-slowing-but-not-faltering-enough-to-force-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7406&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Google Plotting In China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank is excited about a partnership with Google to empower what Caroline Anstey, one of the Bank&#8217;s managing directors, calls &#8216;citizen cartographers&#8216;. People on the ground in some 150 countries will be able to use the technology, called &#8230; <a href="http://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/no-google-plotting-in-china/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinabystander.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1363888&amp;post=7402&amp;subd=chinabystander&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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