Quoted: Manufacturing has suffered in Africa as cheap Chinese goods flood the market, eliminating needed jobs.
Today, only the cotton gin still runs, with the company’s Chinese managers buying raw cotton for export to China’s humming textile industry. Nobody can say when or even if the factory here will reopen.

“We are back where we started,” said Wilfred Collins Wonani, who leads the Chamber of Commerce here, sighing at the loss of one of the city’s biggest employers. “Sending raw materials out, bringing cheap manufactured goods in. This isn’t progress. It is colonialism.”

this is quite the problem. will Africa ever be at the positive end of the global market, and if so, how? obviously, export of raw goods has been a key to many African nations, but that alone cannot sustain an economy in this emerging high-skilled labor boost of the global economy? should China be blamed or do African nations need to emphasize the training of skilled-labor...

Quoted: Fisher Price recalls nearly one million Chinese-made toys over fears their paint may contain too much lead.

That's it, I'm not buying anything that's "Made in China". First toothpaste, now toys, what's next, T-shirts?

Quoted: Campaigners voice their anger at Chinese plans to reopen domestic trade in tiger products.

No...this is so wrong! Here we are trying to protect these endangered species, and they want to cultivate them like plants?CITES is crossing the line here, first wanting to open up ivory trade in Africa, and now this?

Quoted: By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer China may have 144 million Internet users, but spend a Sunday afternoon at the multi-storey Xidan Books, and you’ll discover a whole lot of Chinese folks trawling for information the old fashioned way. Three sections

so just because the government does not condone religion per say, does that mean people discontinue believing in a higher power, or having faith? can religious freedom become a gateway for democracy in China?