China woos Taiwan with offshore 'common homeland' (via AFP)A few kilometres off the Chinese coast, Beijing has appointed a Taiwanese citizen as deputy chief of an experimental "common homeland" that is an unusually forward overture to Taipei. Pingtan island is physically China's closest spot to Taiwan, and…
Labour and the state: Nixon goes to China? (via The Economist)WESTMINSTER types are all abuzz about Ed Miliband's lecture on public-sector reform. They are odd like that. Still, it was an important intervention. In his comments this evening, delivered in memory of the Guardian journalist Hugo Young, the Labour…
China woos Taiwan with offshore 'common homeland' (via AFP)A few kilometres off the Chinese coast, Beijing has appointed a Taiwanese citizen as deputy chief of an experimental "common homeland" that is an unusually forward overture to Taipei. Pingtan island is physically China's closest spot to Taiwan, and…
Money and pride keep families apart at China New Year (via AFP)As millions join the world's largest annual human migration, some in China will not return home for the Lunar New Year, fearing the rising costs of seasonal gifts and ridicule from their families. Nanny and cleaner Tian earns 3,500 yuan ($580) a month…
