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March 5, 2012

China
China’s March Madness—Not Jeremy Lin but Lei Feng

In late February, New York-based Global Times writer Rong Xiaoqing published a piece on Jeremy Lin and the “Hunger for Heroes in the U.S.” In her piece, Rong argues that the United States—and democra…

A portrait of Chinese national folk-hero, Lei Feng looks out over a busy intersection in a central Beijing shopping district in June of 1998.

August 18, 2011

China
Chinese Investment in Nigeria

Textile vendors look after their Chinese-made goods inside their stalls in Kano, northern Nigeria, March 15, 2011. (STR New/Courtesy Reuters) Given that Nigeria has the second largest economy in Afr…

Chinese Investment in Nigeria

March 1, 2015

India
The Indian Budget: Cautious But Resolute

In a country whose media exists in a perpetual fever-pitch of excitement, a consensus has formed around the first full-year budget of the Narendra Modi government presented on February 28, 2015: No b…

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