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Modern China is working hard to give itself a new image. And now a frightening new craze for Western-style beauty is driving a nationwide boom in dangerous and drastic cosmetic surgery procedures.
Three decades of economic liberalization have radically changed the face of China. With the number of Chinese billionaires increasing rapidly, the red ideals of the past may have been discarded forever.
Under the strain of a rapidly-ageing population, China has eased its one-child policy. Yet a two-class system endures for the migrant workers whose children are not welcome in the city of Shanghai.
Whilst China woos investors at the Shanghai Expo, residents are abandoning the city in search of more affordable housing. Shanghai is rapidly becoming one of the most expensive cities to buy property in the world.
The village of Wuda lies between the Yellow River and the Gobi Desert and it's dangerously close to the coal fires beneath the earth. Burning furiously, they release as much CO2 as all the cars in Germany.
Tibetan sportsmen are planning to use the Beijing Olympics as a platform to publicise their country's plight. They're hoping the IOC will recognise their application to compete as a national team.
What are the implications of China's growing militarization? Will it provoke a new arms race in the Pacific? As the balance of power shifts, there are fears Taiwan will become a global hot spot.
Claims the Japanese are re-writing history have re-opened old wounds for the Chinese. But at the heart of the dispute is the struggle for dominance of the region.
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