Much has been written about the subject of diamonds in Africa, from the plethora of the luxury jewel on the African continent to the human rights abuses that often surround the harvesting of diamonds. What fewer people know is that diamond-rich countries like Angola survive by arranging complex business deals with resource-needy countries like China […]
China celebrates National Day highlighting Beijing Olympics, spacewalk
BEIJING, China (GroundReport) – China has begun its National Day celebrations Monday by highlighting the Beijing Olympics and the country’s first spacewalk. Both of these events were clearly two hard-won successes in a troubling year for China, underscored by ethnic unrest, natural disasters, and food safety scandals. Saturday’s spacewalk augmented to the wave of Chinese […]
Jintao Re-elected As China’s President
Hu Jintao was again elected as leader of the world’s most populous country, giving him another five-year term. He is also now the head of the Central Military Comission. Xi Jinping was appointed by the National People’s Congress as vice president. Xi is a top Communist Party leader and a son of a revolutionary. […]
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