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| 1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.) |
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in the long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. And they colonized America before the Europeans, transplanting the principal economic crops that have since fed and clothed the world. 
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Chinese dislike the new rich, probably should dislike SOEs more
We already know that there's a pretty great amount of resentment towards the rich - not to mention, a wide perception of corruption - here in China, so it's probably not surprising that a People's Daily poll recently discovered that over 90% of people think the neo-rich got their wealth by networking with government officials. The poll found that 74% of people felt the key to success
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China ministry says to bar giant ships from ports
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China will no longer allow large ships exceeding approved capacities to dock at its ports, the Ministry of Transport said, effectively snuffing Brazilian miner Vale SA's hopes of sending its mega-ships to China.
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Drug Traffickers Hijack, Murder Chinese Sailors in Thailand
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Authorities in Thailand’s northern Chiang Rai Province have confirmed the deaths of 13 Chinese sailors whose two ships were hijacked by drug traffickers last week, according to Xinhua News: Last Wednesday, Thai border troops seized drugs on board two Chinese-flagged ships coded Yi Xing 8 Hao and Hua Ping, after a gunfight of more than [...]
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China Says Little as Inter-Korean Tensions Escalate
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McClatchy reports on the rising tensions between North and South Korea and China’s response: The crisis escalated Thursday, when Pyongyang announced that it was scrapping a pact to prevent accidental attacks on the two countries’ disputed western sea border. The North Korean military threatened to launch an immediate “physical strike” on any South Korean ships [...]
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Pentagon budget cuts to reshape military, trim costs
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(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The Pentagon unveiled a 2013 budget plan on Thursday that would cut the size of the U.S. military by eliminating nearly 100,000 ground troops, mothballing ships and trimming air squadrons in an effort to reduce spending by US$487 billion over the next decade.
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