这是本周Time杂志的一篇评论文章。谈到中国政府在苏丹达尔富尔问题上立场的转变。一直以来中国以不干涉他国内政为由，拒绝介入苏丹达尔福尔问题，并保护苏丹政府避免西方国家的经济制裁，为此屡受国际社会谴责。但近来中国政府说服苏丹政府同意接受26000人的联合国维和部队，其中包括7000名非洲联盟部队，外界评论苏丹迎来了和平的曙光。文中里面谈到了中国政府在苏丹政治立场转变并愿意派兵维和的3个原因。

1. 9名石油工人被杀

2. 中国欲树立大国形象

3. 2008北京奥运的抵制问题。

详情请见原文。

China’s Healing Power

Thursday, Aug. 02, 2007 By RICHARD DOWDEN

TOO FEW: Sudan’s 7,000 African Union troops are overstretched

The dragon’s wing has twitched. A tiny shift in China’s Africa policy might just lead to peace in Darfur. China is Sudan’s largest trading partner, buying 65% of its oil. Until now Beijing has protected Khartoum from the`Western world, which was crying genocide and demanding intervention and sanctions. Now China has helped persuade Sudan to accept a new United Nations-led peacekeeping force of 26,000 military personnel and police, subsuming the 7,000 African Union peacekeepers who have failed to have any significant impact on the conflict.

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This is a cover story from TIME magzine. Before you read this article, you should ask yourself at first, “Do you and your friends care about politics?”

China’s Me Generation

By Simon Elegant / Beijing

THIS YEAR’S MODEL: Young Chinese like Liu Yun, 23, an actress pictured in a Beijing dance studio, belong to a generation for whom prosperity and personal freedom haven’t required democracy Photograph for TIME by Ian Teh

Six friends out on a friday evening, the seafood plentiful, the conversation flowing. Maria Zhang — big hoop earrings, tight velvet jacket and a good deal of meticulously applied makeup — starts to describe an island that everyone is talking about off the east coast of Thailand. It has great diving, she says, and lots of Chinese there so you don’t have to worry about language. Her friend Vicky Yang is hunched over a borrowed laptop, downloading an e-mail from a pesky client on her cell phone. An actuary at a consulting firm, Vicky needs to close a project tonight. While she phones a colleague, the dinner-table conversation moves on to snowboarding (“I must have fallen a hundred times”) to the relative merits of various iPods (“Shuffle is no good”) and the sudden onrush of credit cards in China. Silence Chen, an account executive with advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing, tells the group he recently received six different cards in the mail. “Each one has a credit limit of 10,000,” he says, laughing. “So suddenly I’m 60,000 yuan richer!” The talk turns to China’s online shopping business, before that is interrupted by the arrival of razor clams, chili squid and deep-fried grouper.

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Commentary: Surface Calm

By Bryan Walsh

China is usually the first nation to protest—loudly—any perceived backsliding by Japan on its acceptance of guilt for World War II abuses. Yet, last month, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied Japan’s wartime army had forced tens of thousands of Asian women into sexual slavery, igniting an international furor, Beijing stayed conspicuously quiet. China’s diplomatic silence was the latest sign of an unexpected thaw in the two nations’ often icy relationship.

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Dads’ Dilemma

Asian fathers are in a bind, tugged in opposite directions by responsibilities at work and at home. Is there a way out?

BY LIAM FITZPATRICK

It’s a Saturday morning in Singapore, and around 20 men have turned up at the Chongfu Primary School to hear Wong Suen Kwong give a talk about fathering. Wong, who heads an NGO called the Centre for Fathering, begins his presentation with a PowerPoint slide declaring his organization’s purpose: “Inspiring fathers to be involved with their children’s lives.” A little way into the meeting, one of the men explains his way of rising to this challenge. He has rigged up his home with over $2,000 worth of remotely operated camera equipment, so that when he’s at work he can log onto the Internet and see what his kids are doing. A ripple of laughter spreads through the room, but there’s a touch of ruefulness about it because many of today’s fathers find it equally hard to be fully involved with their children.

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Where The Coal Is Stained With Blood

By Simon Elegant / Zhangjiachang, Friday, Mar. 02, 2007

A coal miner carries a sack of coal back home after his shift at a small mine in China’s Shanxi Province on November 29, 2006.

Old Zhao, his fellow miners called him — a weary-looking man, 54, wearing a yellow safety helmet and a miner’s lamp strung around his neck, black coal dust embedded in the lines on his forehead and lightly powdering the insides of his ears. Last May Zhao and a team of other veterans were assigned to search for the bodies of 57 miners killed in Zuoyun County, deep in China’s Shanxi province. The dead men had accidentally tunneled into a flooded mine shaft next to their own. “Many of them are very young–just boys,” Zhao says, pausing to light a cigarette. “I keep seeing their faces in my dreams, and they remind me of my son. He’s 27 and works at a mine in the next county.”

For 25 years, Zhao has worked as a miner in China’s northeast, where much of the coal that drives the country’s booming economy is mined. That longevity makes him a lucky man. Being a coal miner in China is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Officially, about 5,000 of his fellow workers died in mining accidents last year. Unofficially, nobody knows how many were killed. In the space of a single week late last year, gas explosions and accidents in four mines left nearly 100 miners dead. Li Yizhong, head of the State Administration of Work Safety Supervision, described the carnage as “unprecedented” and blamed the deaths on collusion between local officials and greedy mine owners. Indeed, throughout China, the coal magnates of Shanxi are notorious for their extravagance. Chinese newspapers regularly tally the number of Hummers, Ferraris and Rolls-Royces in the otherwise impoverished province.

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Welcome to China’s China (Other story about china from TIME)

Enjoy it. Proud of our country!

Thursday, Feb. 08, 2007

Welcome to China’s China

By Michael Schuman

Wang Li may live deep in China’s interior, in a city you may never have heard of–the provincial capital of Chengdu–but that doesn’t stop her from shopping like the big spenders of Tokyo, Hong Kong or Shanghai. One Friday evening, Wang, 28, trolls down Chunxi Street, a jam-packed thoroughfare of flashing neon signs, McDonald’s restaurants and boutiques, looking for the latest fashions she’s admired in Cosmopolitan magazine.

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