{"id":637,"date":"2005-07-06T21:26:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2005-07-06T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T04:26:12","slug":"china-everyones-favorite-communist-trading-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/china-everyones-favorite-communist-trading-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Everyone&#8217;s Favorite Communist Trading Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~cfarivar\/photos\/gossip\/20050706.china.flag.gif\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"7\" hspace=\"7\"> So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/business\/technology\/12067581.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=mercurynews_technology\">eBay wants to expand Paypal to China<\/a>, and the valley is all abuzz about Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeal.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal\/TDDArticle\/TDStandardArticle&#038;c=TDDArticle&#038;cid=1119558617183\">possible buyout<\/a> of Chinese search juggernaut Baidu, possibly before its IPO later this month. Now the only left for the Chinese to do is to continue the space race. <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/1163067.cms\">Oh, wait.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I> BEIJING: China is drawing up its own version of the US-built Deep Impact probe, media reported on Wednesday, two days after the American spacecraft smashed into a comet.<\/p>\n<p>The third nation to launch a man into space has lofty space ambitions that include putting two astronauts into orbit this September and eventually sending up a space station and even a manned mission to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d2Actually, our country has its own Deep Impact plans, it\u00d5s just we\u00d5ve never revealed them to the public before,\u00d3 the Beijing News quoted Chinese astronomer Zhao Haibin as saying. <\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/1163067.cms\">AFTER US, CHINA PLANS &#8216;DEEP IMPACT&#8217; MISSION<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeal.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal\/TDDArticle\/TDStandardArticle&#038;c=TDDArticle&#038;cid=1119558617183\">GOOGLE HOVERS AS BAIDU READIES IPO<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/business\/technology\/12067581.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=mercurynews_technology\">EBAY PLANS TO OFFER PAYPAL SERVICE IN CHINA THIS YEAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So eBay wants to expand Paypal to China, and the valley is all abuzz about Google&#8217;s possible buyout of Chinese search juggernaut Baidu, possibly before its IPO later this month. Now the only left for the Chinese to do is to continue the space race. Oh, wait. BEIJING: China is drawing up its own version of the US-built Deep Impact probe, media reported on Wednesday, two days after the American spacecraft smashed into a comet. 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