China

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Outside April 2007 Patrick Symmes	Leaping Tiger, Drowning River The world's greatest Communist supereconomy needs all the power it can get. With dams rising up all around, the author joins a team of Chinese and American rafters as they outrun the concrete on a wild descent of the Yangtze.
CFO April 1, 2007 Wu Chen	View from China: Shanghai Confidential Risk-management advisers to foreign companies say investigations of multinationals suggest it's time to take a close look at internal controls in the People's Republic.
IDB America February 2007	Who Benefits From Trade with China? Economist Guillermo Calvo warns that soaring commodity exports to the Asian giant would only benefit a minority of Latin Americans.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2007 Tim Beyers	Quick Take: Watch Out for Killer Video Games Another tragic death in China could change the way we view the computer screen.
Smithsonian February 2007	China Rising Rediscover five articles published between May 2002 and May 2006 that reveal another side of the emerging superpower
ifeminists February 14, 2007 Wendy McElroy	China Can No Longer Hide AIDS Crisis 80-year old Gao Yaojie, prints and circulates educational AIDS brochures at her own expense, and is a source of chronic embarrassment for the government. She is also exposing the corruption of officials who misappropriate money and resources intended for the AIDS victims.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Yu-Tzu Chiu	Carlyle Group's Taiwan Gambit A semiconductor acquisition by a U.S. investment group tests Taiwan's China policies.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	China's Defense Build-up Merits Closer Attention From Navy, Say Analysts China has been beefing up its military might, and the rapid growth of its navy, in particular, is creating disagreements in the Defense Department over whether such a build-up ought to be perceived as a threat to U.S. interests in the Pacific.
ifeminists December 7, 2006 Wendy McElroy	The Women of China: Caught Between Old Ways and a New World China is scrambling to restore the 6,000-year history deliberately destroyed by Mao's 10-year Cultural Revolution. At the same moment, it strains to become modern and Western. Nothing expresses the contradiction between old and new as clearly as the status of women.
IEEE Spectrum December 2006	Just Charge It At Robot Kitchen, in Hong Kong, robots greet, seat, and feed patrons.
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