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Byline: Melinda Liu The latest recession-fueled outburst of America-bashing in China might worry Washington, but it's even scarier to the rulers in Beijing. Millions of ordinary Chinese are in trouble, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The mood in china appears to be reaching a tipping point, as its normally bland leaders abandon cautious diplo-speak under the pressures of the global financial crisis. [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Why the architectural icons Beijing built for the Olympic Games stand empty. China is a command economy run by engineers, a fact that served the nation well [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu DURING THE 2008 OLYMPICS, international audiences oohed and aahed over Beijing's stunning new structures: the world-renowned Bird's Nest national stadium, the surreal China Central TV headquarters designed [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The confrontation last week between a U.S. ship and five Chinese naval craft was just the latest of many low-grade military clashes in the South China Sea, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Craig Simons in Dongguan As exports plummet and coastal factories close, Beijing looks inland for a new economic model. Even if you follow news about China, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The role of bloggers has been firmly established: they are self-appointed ombudsmen, documenting mistakes by media and government. But in China, where the Web is less censored [...]

Byline: Rana Foroohar; With Melinda Liu and Mary Hennock in Beijing and Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai The Middle Kingdom's blend of communism and capitalism gives it an edge in tough [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The Chinese government has long been filled with crooked cadres who take the money and run. But as the nation's economy slows down, grassroots resentment toward official [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Is Beijing, which is famously allergic to intervention, about to get involved in Afghanistan? It sounds crazy, yet there are intriguing signs. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Before it passes, the global economic crisis may topple its share of leaders. Will China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao become a casualty? That's the speculation, thanks to [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu It wasn't all for show. China opts to keep in place some of its Olympics Games pollution control. One of the big questions hanging over this summer's [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The Nobel Foundation has been known to pick dark-horse candidates to drive home an ideological point (see Al Gore). How intriguing, then, that the Oslo-based International Peace [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu Could a New Zealand dairy trader have done more to prevent China's milk scandal? At press time, Sanlu Group milk products contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu By now, it's clear that both Chinese and visitors alike reveled in the 2008 Games, even many skeptics. The merry national atmosphere is quite different from the [...]

Byline: Duncan Hewitt; With Melinda Liu in Beijing and Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi Thanks to newfound wealth, liberal arts courses are starting to bloom in the developing world. China's [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu And Duncan Hewitt China's most modern citizens aren't drawing it any closer to the West. Charles Zhang is practically the personification of hip, 21st-century China. The flamboyant, [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu and Jonathan Ansfield Beijing's brass lags behind leaders of nations with similar incomes. China ranks 113th among all countries, with poor scores in air pollution and other [...]

Byline: Mary Hennock and Melinda Liu As China rebuilds from the great quake, a changed country is emerging with some surprising winners and losers. The Chinese phrase for 'crisis' combines [...]

Byline: MELINDA LIU WITH 18,000 STILL MISSING after China's quake, Beijing is organizing a massive campaign to log corpses and establish a DNA database that will help survivors learn the [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The last time China suffered a disaster on the magnitude of the recent Sichuan earthquake, its Maoist leaders spurned psychology as a 'bourgeois' discipline. Survivors of the [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With bureau reports A rugged diaspora is aiding the province as it recovers from the quake. This had to be Yu Hongbin's worst vacation ever. The Sichuan [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu For two and a half years, Sichuan native Yu Hongbin has worked in Shenzhen, the Chinese boomtown on the coast opposite Hong Kong, making chips for Nokia [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The last time that China suffered a natural disaster approaching the magnitude of the recent earthquake in Sichuan, its Maoist leaders considered psychology a 'bourgeois' discipline. Survivors [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Jaimie Seaton In Bangkok, Tim Coone In Managua And Monica Campbellin Mexico City Cyclone Nargis may have done more than just wreck Burma's cities. It may [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Mary Hennock in Beijing and bureau reports As rulers successfully crush sympathy for Tibet at home, they stir it worldwide. It didn't take long after the [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu As police clashed with Tibetan protesters in Lhasa last week, shops were set on fire, vehicles overturned, ethnic Chinese attacked and crowds turned back by tear gas [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With bureau reports Novel ways to care for China's army of empty-nesters. IN China--where Confucian tradition and the communist Constitution still require sons and daughters to look [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Mary Hennock in Beijing and bureau reports With the death of filial piety and the rise of 'kids for hire,' no Chinese family value is sacred [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu; With Bureau Reports An aging population is transforming the family. Although they live in a nation of 1.3 billion people, Wu Shaoqiu and his wife are lonely. [...]

Byline: Melinda Liu The N.Y. Philharmonic brings cultural diplomacy to North Korea, but the real encore may take a while. Kim Jung Rok's ears pricked up when he heard that [...]

Byline: Mary Hennock and Melinda Liu China's pre-Olympic crackdown on dissent is growing, laying the roots of a new security regime. Beijing is cleaning house for the Summer Olympics. Last [...]