China’s power to bless can rattle nerves

Everyone knows China is becoming an economic powerhouse, both in Asia and abroad. Cheap Chinese exports are wiping out local industry in countries all over Asia. ASEAN trade surpluses with China are declining, and Vietnam has devalued its currency by 5% to keep itself competitive with China (New York Times). China, trying to cool tempers, [...]

Missionary mappers may have to redraw India

Whether one agrees with his methods or not, no one can deny that K. Chandrasekhar Rao has apparently been successful. Rao swore to starve if India did not carve a new state out of Andhra Pradesh, with his city of Hyderabad as its capital. Rao claimed the local region of Telangana was being denied their [...]

Does China still need us?

Does China still need us? Yes or No? In almost 20 years of full-time China ministry I have heard a few foreigners answer that question with a “No,” but I have never had even one mainland Chinese Christian agree with them. It is not a question of Yes or No, but of How? Like the [...]

India’s brisk trade in child slaves

India’s brisk trade in child slaves. Thousands of children are bought and sold in India every day; there are 15 million child slaves in India.

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China must grow [economically at 8% per year] – or it risks riots

China must grow [economically at 8% per year] – or it risks riots

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China’s birth limits create dangerous gender gap

China’s birth limits create dangerous gender gap.

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Rights groups confront Chinese Government in unprecedented letter

Rights groups confront Chinese Government in unprecedented letter .

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The “Big 3″ China Events in 2008

Sometimes we get caught up in the routine, and indeed faithfulness in the routine makes up most of life. But then there are those few mega-events that have the potential to change the old routine into something permanently different.
In our personal lives we have a wedding, or a birth, or a funeral, or a doctor’s [...]

The real threat from China is economic destabilization

Robert J. Samuelson writes that the real threat from China is not overtaking the US economy (which it certainly will by 2020, but per capita American income will still be 2x Chinese incomes in 2050), but destabilization of the global economy. In the Washington Post.

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A reminder of the rapidly growing, massive Chinese church

CBN World News has a brief recap of the millions of believers in China.

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