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The truth is this: China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama, and insisted on an awful "deal" so western leaders would walk away carrying the blame. How do I know this? Because I was in the room and saw it happen.

Mast-like silhouettes adorn the 29-storey China Minmetals Corp Tower in Shenzhen. Check out the design that has just been unveiled and leave us your views…

In the USA, intellectual piracy laws outlaw piracy of goods from all forms of the market, from medical to the watch industry. This helps prevent the origenal producers of drugs and products from losesing billions on the market. China does not have such laws, allowing for piracy of everything from Viagra to Rolex, causing companies to lose billions

China does not have these laws primarily because under communism, there is no privet property, including ideas. This allows for easy bootlegging of products, and when this involves drugs such as Viagra, it endangers the lives of the people using the bootlegged drug, because there has not necessarily been the same testing of the bootlegged drug as there is on the drug made by the company. Intellectual property laws ensure quality within a product.

Barbie is set to open a massive 3400 square meter flagship store along Shanghai's trendy Huai Hai Road. Hoping to cash in on the China consumer market, Mattel has invested over $30 million to set up the first Barbie worldwide flagship store. A new set of Asian and Caucasian Barbie dolls have been developed for the grand opening.

The Dayuan International Centre in Chengdu, China is a strategically planned, beautifully conceptualized urban precinct that pulsates with the ethos of the metropolis but conserves the serenity of a countryside neighbourhood! Check it out here…

Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple's Chinese producer Foxconn. See highlights from his tour of the assembly line and the Foxconn facilities. Hear his full audio reports on your local public radio station or online at http://www.marketplace.org. 

This article isn't talking so much about how people are using media literacy but is rather really showing how much it is needed today. Here we see that the Chinese people feel that it is really a necessity to have media literacy in high schools and elementary schools as well. They also believe that it is important to have media literacy because it will enhance global citizenship as well as domestic citizenship. This idea was also organized by the Communication University of China