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The Guardian: Trump’s golf diplomacy lands in the rough ahead of Xi Jinping meeting

Posted by Dan Washburn on April 5, 2017 No comments

Benjamin Haas reports: For years golf was banned as a bourgeois indulgence, and more recently China’s 85 million Communist party members were forbidden from playing the sport amid a broad crackdown on corruption. The regulation was later lifted – as long as cadres hit the links at their own expense. In one notorious case, a […]

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The Guardian: Golf loses its gloss for China’s privileged elite

Posted by Dan Washburn on June 28, 2015 No comments

Harold Thibault writes in The Guardian: The sport is getting a bad reputation in other ways. To be maintained properly, golf courses have to be watered regularly – this, at a time when northern China is suffering from chronic water shortages. And building new ones means expropriating farmland, often under highly dubious circumstances – this […]

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