China's first female astronaut shows how 'women hold up half the sky'

"On Saturday a Shenzhou-9 spacecraft blasted off from its Gobi desert launch site carrying the first Chinese woman into space.

"I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honoured to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens," Liu told reporters before take-off."

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China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self-Sustaining City South Of Boise, Idaho

"According to the Idaho Statesman, the idea would be to build a self-contained city with all services included.  It would be modeled after the "special economic zones" that currently exist in China."


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Note:  Be careful what you wish for...

Suspicious Death Ignites Fury in China

" Government officials told the newspaper that the witness was a drug user."
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Note:  ...and that is why the witness is not to be believed?...As long as the prices at Shit-mart remain low I suppose torturing Americans can deal with this without saying much.

China puts 8.5 million tonnes of grain reserve on market this week

"Also, the People's Bank of China, the central bank, raised benchmark interest rates and hiked the reserve requirement ratio for banks twice in a month."
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Note:  As an American such news shouldn't matter.  We can produce so much food it would be coming out of our ears - but ... 


You've heard the term "getting off the grid."  Well - America - the country - has to get off the world grid.  What is good for the goose is good for the gander.  

The United States of...China?

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" The latest beneficiary of China's outward investment push is a small Missouri town called Moberly, with just 14,000 people. This Saturday, Mamtek International -- a Chinese mainland-invested company based in Hong Kong -- plans to break ground on a state-of-the-art factory making sucralose, a no-calorie sugar substitute used in sodas and baked goods. The plant is expected to infuse $46 million into the local economy, create 312 jobs by the end of 2011 and double those employment figures over the longer term."

Chinese rating agency strips Western nations of AAA status

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" Meanwhile, China rises to AA+ with Germany, the Netherlands and Canada, reflecting its €2.4 trillion (£2 trillion) reserves and a blistering growth rate of 8pc to 10pc a year."

China delivers aid, rescue team to quake-hit Haiti

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" BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- China sent an emergency rescue team Wednesday evening to quake-hit Haiti, where several thousands of lives may have been claimed.

Chinese leadership expressed sympathy with and deep condolence to the Haitian people for their loss in the strongest ever quake in about 200 years in the Caribbean islands country, with which China has no diplomatic relations."

U.S. Auto Engineer in Chinese Custody for Over a Year

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" Hu Zhicheng, a Chinese-born American citizen who won awards in the United States for his work developing catalysts that control auto emissions, is being held because of a dispute with a former business partner in the northern port city of Tianjin."