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You Nuo

Talk of green, not war, partnerships

Using US President Barack Obama's visit to China as a peg, some American columnists have suggested (presumably for money and convenience) that Washington ask Beijing to "help out" in Afghanistan (a costly job -- $1 million for a solder a year) so that the Americans can "do more good things" to protect the world's environment.

Li Xing

Nixon or Obama, cooperation holds

When Richard Nixon claimed that his one-week stay in China in February 1972 "changed the world", no one could have predicted how great the changes would be.

Zhao Huanxin

Barack drops Chinese proverbs, too

When Barack Obama journeyed to the Great Wall yesterday, I was wondering if someone on his team, or the United States president himself, would come up with a Chinese saying or two to express his feelings.

Liu Shinan

Money holds heroism to ransom

The photograph is the most heart-wrenching, and at the same time disgusting, I have ever seen: An old man on a boat holding a rope tied to the arm of a dead person submerged in water with one hand and gesticulating to people on the bank with the other...

Raymond Zhou

Obama Drama

A presidential visit is always taken so seriously in China that nothing is left to chance. But nobody could have scripted the most memorable moment of United States President Barack Obama's visit early this week. I'm sure the PR teams had thought of every scenario and the security personnel every contingency, but who'd have known?

Ravi S. Narasimhan

Lessons from SARS have to be applied

I was living in Hong Kong during SARS - and read enough reports from the mainland - to know that the scars of that epidemic haven't yet healed.

Liang Hongfu

Football and foolishness of its officials

The highly publicized government clampdown on illegal football betting has offered a glimmer of hope to the millions of fans, infuriated and saddened by the decline of Chinese football.

Chen Weihua

No China bashing, all eyes on cooperation

The seminar on climate change with a focus on China held at the Asia Society in New York last week was quite a surprise. With top US experts on climate change and several prominent scholars on China, such as Orville Schell, Jerome Cohen, Barbara Finamore and Andrew Nathan in attendance, I was expecting an onslaught on China.

Brendan John Worrell

Top of the class south of the lake

Back in 2005 a TV talent show called Super Voice Girl took China by storm wracking in close to 18 million yuan. Produced by Hunan’s Golden Eagle the program captivated viewers and allowed them to sms their vote directly to the studio.