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Steve: I am not bitter, and I’m sorry if the tone seemed that way. In fact, I am optimistic for China’s human rights improvements. For sure, we are not sitting idly by while violence breaks out in Lhasa, nor did we sit idly by while Chinese students were massacred by their own government in […]

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China is changing incredibly quickly. From reading about the migrant workers and disgruntled villagers, as well as the issues with the media censorship and false reporting, it is clear that China faces many legal and ethical problems. However, this is not something new. Corruption is, again, part of the history of China. It is […]

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Your use of a language will depend on what environment you surround yourself in. If I end up moving to Chinatown in San Fransisco after the MBA program, then obviously, the Chinese language will be more important to me. If I move to Santa Maria and find a job there (75% hispanic population), […]

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To understand the country, first understand their history. China hasn’t always been unified, in fact, it rarely has been. Throughout their history that I’ve read (the Ming dynasty until the present day) , China has been fragmented by civil war, foreign domination and influence, and constant changes in political power. Even today, we can […]

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