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With Astrill and several other free and paid-subscription virtual private networks (VPNs) that make leaping China’s Great Firewall possible now harder to use themselves after government interference "gummed" them up, the world wide web just shrank a notch for 600 million Chinese web surfers. Or did it? Do average Chinese care about the wider, Western presentation of the
Following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society New York on May 21, 2015, “ChinaFile Presents: Does Xi Jinping Represent a Return to the Politics of the Mao Era?” The evening convened the scholars Roderick MacFarquhar and Andrew Walder—the publication of whose new book on Mao Zedong was the occasion for the event—with diplomat Susan Shirk and Orville
Project renderings. Photo by Ouyang Kaiyu China News Service, Siem Reap, April 3 (Reporter Ouyang Kaiyu) On April 3, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen went to Cambodia to inspect the site of the Angkor International Airport construction project in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Hun Sen inspects the project. Photo by Ouyang Kaiyu Hun Sen said that China and Cambodia are good brothers. Now, the throughp
Construction on the new Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport has reached “only 22 per cent” completion as of February 28, according to the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) spokesperson, as Prime Minister Hun Sen announced an upcoming visit to the site to “accelerate” the construction process.
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