
Americans and Europeans are used to buying mass produced shoes, toys and microwave ovens from China. So why not roses? That is the thinking behind an elaborate Chinese government effort to export cut flowers, aimed not just at developing a new business to take on the world but at redeveloping the social and economic landscape here in southwestern...
The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and massive pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. But now it may finally have met its match -- the Internet. The collision between the Internet and Chinese authorities is one of the grand wrestling matches of history,...