China is set to return as a global power, and its domination of the Beijing Olympics is just another sign of its resurgence, according to New York Times writer, Nicholas D. Kristof. The world we are familiar with, dominated by America and Europe, is a historical anomaly. Until the 1400s, the largest economies in the world were China and India, and forecasters then might have assumed that they would ... Read full entry

Did Toads Predict the China Quake? Toads moving en masse, and a small lake that mysteriously drained, are two bizarre events that preceded the catastrophic earthquake in China's Sichuan province last week. Were these events some sort of natural warning of an impending tragedy? Just before the most recent devastation in China toads swarmed across one of the bridges in the affected area. Two days before the quake thousands of ... Read full entry

Why Dell will not bounce back Sometimes I wonder if this guy really is "the fake" Steve Jobs. Dell Hell is lack of innovation, the rise of China, Windows Vista, and Apple's rebound. Great article. Trouble with this "innovation" is that the advantages it creates are fleeting. What wiped this one out was a little place called China. Have you heard of it? The rise of China means everyone can ... Read full entry

Ten Reasons Why China Matters To You, by US foreign affairs expert Thomas P. M. Barnett. #10: "Because Nixon went to China and your world was born." When President Richard Nixon reopened diplomatic ties with Mao Zedong's communist China in 1972, he enabled the most profound global economic dynamic of the last half century: China's historic reemergence as a worldwide market force. Nothing shapes your world today more than China's ... Read full entry

China's Firefox growth kicks Aussies off top user list Growth in the uptake of Firefox in China has seen Australia lose its exclusive slice of the pie, and instead be lumped into the "others" category, on Mozilla HQ's big pie chart of global users of the Firefox browser. Recent information from the China Internet Network Information Centre numbers China's Internet users at 210 million, making China the second-largest Internet market ... Read full entry

Life in China's suburbs Time Magazine correspondent Bill Powell's audio-visual photo-set documenting life in a migrant town outside of Shanghai, home to the armies of construction workers at the forefront of the building boom in China. For all the talk about China as a new economic superpower this remains a very poor country, albeit it one that continues to move people out of poverty at a very impressive rate.

'I had to get to the heart of darkness' Director Ang Lee talks about his new film, Lust, Caution, romance, (mainland) Chinese censorship practices, and subtitles. "It's a lot of fun for the Chinese to watch the first half, to remind us of our innocence and how things used to be. Then comes the real deal. But for non-Chinese, you don't get that benefit. I am sure the Chinese viewer will ... Read full entry