Dear Slate, yes there are chocolate bars in China
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How AIDS in China is spreading
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Interview: Kerry Ann Lee, culture shock = inspiration
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China hurting in world opinion polls [China Post]
In a survey covering 18 countries which account for 56 percent of the world's population, 38 percent said China can be trusted to act responsibly while 52 percent said the country can't be trusted.
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Letter accuses China's party of drift [Los Angeles Times]
A rare open letter signed by 17 former top officials and conservative Marxist scholars ahead of a key party meeting accuses China's top leaders of steering the country in the wrong direction, pandering to foreigners, and betraying the workers' revolution.
Nine in 10 downed China officials had mistresses [Reuters]
Chinese anti-graft investigators have found that 90 percent of the country's most senior officials brought down in corruption cases in recent years had kept mistresses, drawing a link between sex and misconduct.
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Illegal mapping in China by foreigners on rise [China Daily]
The number of cases involving foreign institutions and individuals conducting illegal surveying and mapping in China has been on the rise in recent years, according to the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM).
China PR machine "overwhelmed" by safety crisis [Guardian Unlimited] Barely a day goes by without some new scandal over a made-in-China product, be it toys, toothpaste, candies or seafood, and China has been quite "overwhelmed".
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Chinese anti-graft investigators have found that 90 percent of the country's most senior officials brought down in corruption cases in recent years had kept mistresses
unnecessary qualification.
The illegal mapping of China by foreigners is a prelude to the secret attack and partitioning of China by the foreign powers.
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"...drawing a link between sex and misconduct.
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Erm, what? I think you'll find, oooohhhh, the vast majority of men would enjoy a good fuckaround from time to time, and many do. This is a 'no news' article.
The Chinese PR machine and the global survey ones link well together. It's a big loss of face to admit you're country is producing a large percentage of bad quality and often unsafe products. 99% safe/good quality, my arse!! NO-one believes you, China. Shape up.