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Join us as we interview national scholars, writers and politicians on China's issues of state, economics, foreign policy and culture. Hear about the key China issues from the experts first hand. Primary Format : Chinese Language : Unknown Also Listed as: User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Digging to China Podcasts Methings.com listings of Digging to China Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Digging to China Advancing Human Rights and Democracy in China/China and the World Economy Segment 1:  Advancing Human Rights and Democracy in China Falun Gong and the China Democratic Party emerged almost simultaneously ten years ago.  In 1999, ten thousand practitioners of Falun Gong appeared silently and respectfully at the Chinese government leadership compound in Beijing to protest the beatings of forty fellow members in a nearby city.  At the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dalai Lama and Beijing’s 7th Round of Talks and China’s Stock Market Melt-down Segment 1: Seventh Round of Talks between Dalai Lama and Beijing Starting in March 2008, Buddhist monks and others took to the streets in Tibetan areas in repeated protest against their treatment by Chinese authorities. Large numbers of paramilitary police were mobilized to contain the unrest, and large scale arrests and continued surveillance have restored a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Congressman in China/Global Online Freedom Act Segment 1: Congressmen Barred from Meeting with Chinese Dissidents The Chinese security apparatus has tightened controls considerably, ahead of the Beijing Olympics. Chinese dissidents with grievances have been rounded up, or kept from entering Beijing by policed security cordons that ring the city. Congressmen Frank Wolf and Chris Smith, two outspoken critics of China’s human rights [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Impact of Asian American Voters/On Patrol in the Virtual World Segment 1: Impact of the Asian American Vote The presidential campaign is in full swing. Ethnic minorities represent an increasingly powerful voting bloc that will help decide which presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, wins the 2008 general election. Feb. 5 Super Tuesday exit polls showed that 75% of Asian Americans voted for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wall Street in Crisis/Asian American Voters Keeping Virginia Red? Segment 1: Wall Street in Crisis Wall Street is in crisis. It drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy and forced American International Group into the hands of the U.S. government. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Goldman and Morgan Stanley are to become commercial banks. China has resisted years of pressure from U.S. Treasury Secretary [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wall Street in Crisis/Asian American Voters Keeping Virginia Red? Segment 1:  Wall Street in Crisis Wall Street is in crisis.  It drove Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy and forced American International Group into the hands of the U.S. government.  Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America.  Goldman and Morgan Stanley are to become commercial banks.  China has resisted years of pressure from U.S. Treasury Secretary [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China’s Tainted Milk Products/U.S.-India Nuclear Pact Segment 1:  China’s Tainted Milk Products Fifty-four thousand infants were sick in China, six thousand hospitalized, four died.  The tainted milk scandal has sparked global concern about Chinese food products, with more than 30 countries restricting Chinese dairy products, and in some cases, all imports of Chinese made food.  EU has a Europe-wide ban on all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shen Yun Performing Arts Bringing Chinese Culture to the World Segment 1:  Shen Yun Performing Arts:  Bringing Chinese Culture to the World Shen Yun Performing Arts, formerly known as Divine Performing Arts, will return to Washington, DC, August 26-30th with its breathtaking classical Chinese dance and orchestral music after a successful run in February.  The six shows at the Kennedy Center Opera House from February 11-15th [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.S.-China Clash Near Hainan Island/Success of Divine Performing Arts Segment 1:  U.S.-China Clash Near Hainan Island On Sunday, March 7, the Navy surveillance ship Impeccable was harassed by a group of Chinese naval vessels.  One of the vessels tried to snag the sonar device and came within 25 feet of the American ship.  The Chinese government has asserted that the U.S. maneuver was an illegal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website South China Sea Incident/China’s Purchase of U.S. Treasuries Segment 1:  South China Sea Incident On Sunday, March 7, the Navy surveillance ship Impeccable was harassed by a group of Chinese naval vessels.  Both sides questioned the other’s motives, with Beijing accusing the U.S. of conducting “activities in China’s special economic zone in the South China Sea without China’s permission”.  In other words, the U.S. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.S. in Afghanistan/Obama’s First 100 Days Segment 1:  U.S. in Afghanistan   Afghanistan isn’t called the graveyard of empires for nothing.  Alexander the Great was struck by an Afghan archer’s arrow.  Genghis Khan established a powerful empire only after reaching painful accommodations with the Afghans.  While exercising their influence on surrounding lands, the Greeks, Arabs, Iranians, and Buddhists each sought to bring their culture’s influence into Afghanistan and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Protests/U.S. Economic Recovery Segment 1:  Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Protests June 4th marks the twentieth anniversary of the brutal crackdown on China’s 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations.  The student-led protests, which started in April, grew throughout May until early June when troops were sent in killing hundreds of protesters.  Every year the Tiananmen Mothers send China’s top leaders a letter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama’s China Resume/FDA’s Beijing Office Segment 1:  Obama’s China Resume President-elect Obama has a thin resume.  This is particularly true regarding his record on U.S.-China relations.  At the April 2007 debate among Democratic candidates, Obama said China is “neither our enemy nor our friend.  They’re our competitors.”  Senator Obama has noted the problems with China’s revaluation of the Yuan, and he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DTC - Letter from “China’s Conscience”: An Unpleasant Reality Known as “China’s Conscience”, Lawyer Gao Zhisheng was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times. He was named one of China’s top-ten lawyers in 2001 and has worked for China’s vulnerable groups: coal miners, home-demolition victims, and house church members. In August 2006, Mr. Gao was arrested, and a few months later, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DTC - Investment in China: Different Financial Terrain/Wall Street Embraces Sovereign Wealth Funds Segment 1: Investment in China: Different Financial Terrain Is China’s economy a bubble that’s poised to pop at any moment, or is it poised to continue its remarkable run? Fixed-asset investment as a percentage of GDP has reached nearly 50%. Rapid growth requires huge amounts of capital investment. Investors in China expect to make [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kitty Hawk port call denial, a misunderstanding? The USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier group and its 8,000 airmen and sailors were expected in Hong Kong on Wednesday, November 21, 2007. But it’s port call was refused by China. Hundreds of relatives of U.S. crew members had flown to Hong Kong to celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday. Later in the day, China appeared to have relented, announcing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cross-cultural Marriage As societies worldwide become increasingly multicultural, the issues of identity, belonging, tolerance and race are becoming more and more important to come to terms with. And when people of two cultural backgrounds join in marriage, the relationship can be enriched. But obstacles first need to be identified and addressed. Can cross [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Face of China / Religious Freedom, A Simple Idea? The Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Silk Road, Buddhist and Taoist temples, painting, calligraphy, the Three Gorges, green tea and tasty food. China is filled with an abundance of natural wonders and a rich culture. But urban life today is something Westerners know little about. In the mainland you can lose yourself in an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Tibet and China With the Beijing Olympics only months away Tibetans world-wide are hoping to mobilize new support for their call for an end to what they say is China’s illegal occupation of their homeland. Their cause has been greatly boosted ever since Tibet became the site of the eruption of the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years. A [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beijing Olympics: China’s Coming-out Party in Danger? The Beijing Olympics represent a kind of coming-out party for China, a chance for the rising Asian power to showcase its economic and political development. There is much for the world to admire and for the Chinese people to be proud of. But things are not turning out in favor of Beijing. Freedoms of religion, speech and assembly do not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website