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The threat of nuclear warfare has tested international diplomacy for decades. Looking at the latest in negotiations and nuclear weapon development, Susan Osman's guests examine how to balance efforts toward nuclear proliferation and reduction.
Susan Osman is joined by:
Lora Saalman
Associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Fan Jishe
Deputy Director of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Studies and
Research Fellow at the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Now earlier this month we reported here on BON News on the increasing number of US graduates and other young foreigners coming to China to work. And as the economy continues to grow - and appears to have avoided any serious fallout from the global financial crisis – it's clear that China has, for many, become a land of opportunity. But what's not always so clear is where exactly these foreign workers fit into some of the country's regulatory policies and institutions.
The titles of "national model worker" and "national model collective" may have a quaint pre-cold war communist ring to them – but recently they caused some controversy when the government released its Draft Regulations on Commendations and Awards. This is the first time that clear nationwide rules on such honors have been drawn up.
And one provision has caused particularly heated debate: this is that foreigners working in China should also be entitled to such awards if they fulfill the criteria. So CCTV.COM carried out a poll which asked respondents: "Do you think foreigners should be eligible for "national model worker" titles?"
Now, the fallout following Google's announcement that it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service and that it may exit China is continuing.
As we reported yesterday, the world's leading search engine said the decision followed a cyber attack it believes was aimed at gathering information on Chinese human rights activists.
The move follows a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year, which has seen sites and social networking services hosted overseas blocked – including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube – and the closure of many sites at home.
Chinese authorities criticised Google for supplying "vulgar" content in results. Google acknowledged that the decision "may well mean" the closure of Google.cn and its offices in China. Google has only a third of the search-engine market in China, which is dominated by the Chinese giant Baidu.
Although its revenues have continued to rise, many analysts believed it was finding business hard going. Let's cross to Emma in the newsroom now for the latest on what China's Internet users have been saying about all this.