links for 2007-04-27

China’s less developed western region is promoting environmentally-friendly investment and rejecting the polluters

In a July 31, 2001, entry of his diary, published by the Asahi newspaper, the chamberlain, Ryogo Urabe, wrote that “the direct cause” was that the emperor was “displeased about the inclusion of Class A war criminals.”

CCP’s latest “constructing socialist harmonious society” campaign has been trying to utilize traditional cultural resources.

The phrase “regime change” is associated with the doctrine of preventive war as applied to Iraq. But another sort of regime change has been the crux of U.S. policy toward China through most of the 35 years since President Nixon’s opening to that nation in

Beijing’s top climate change official says a claim China will become the world’s larger emitter of greenhouse gases as early as this year is “complete nonsense” and an attempt to pressure the country ahead of future global negotiations on the issu