Photo of the Day: Nathu La, Chinese side of the Indo-China border by Shayon Ghosh
Amid Distrust, China Extends ‘Handshake’ to India
On his first foreign trip as Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang was in New Delhi today, where he met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Xinhua ran a sanguine report on Li’s talking points and the “great importance” that China’s new leadership has attached to furthering bilateral ties with India: In his meeting with Singh, Premier Li said China and India are important neighbors and partners by nature. He noted that remarkable advancement has been made in bilateral ties, po
China’s Communist Party Urged to Slim Down
In an article published in state media, Shandong University professor Zhang Xi’en has warned that, at around 83 million members, the Chinese Communist Party may have grown unhealthily l ...
What Do First Foreign Visits Tell Us?
With Li Keqiang traveling to India on his first foreign visit since taking office as China’s Prime Minister in March, The Diplomat’s Mu Chunshan explores what the early trips of C ...
North Korea Holds Chinese Fishing Boat For Ransom
China’s foreign ministry disclosed on Sunday that North Korea took over a Chinese fishing boat earlier this month and continues to hold its crew hostage, according to Chris Buckley of T ...
China Reduced to World’s Happiest Country
Unlike the “Are you happy?” CCTV debacle of last fall, a survey on happiness released last week is unequivocal about China’s contentment. On May 16, People’s Daily published “The People ...
Former Bank Executive Expelled From Party
Xinhua reports that Yang Kun, a former official at the Agricultural Bank of China, has been expelled from the CCP and handed over to China’s party judiciary after a disciplinary investi ...
China’s Gender Gap Reaches from Rural Areas to Cities...
A recent report found that China is home to the highest number of female self-made entrepreneurs in the world. While this is certainly good news for those entrepreneurs, it does not give a co ...Politics
Murong Xuecun: Open Letter to the “Nameless Censor”
Writer Murong Xuecun has spoken out against government censorship ...
Economy
Investor Scheme Leads to Death Sentence
Wenzhou businesswoman Lin Haiyan was sentenced to death last week ...
Culture & the Arts
Evan Osnos on the Resonance of “Gatsby” in China
The New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent Evan Osnos, who recen ...
Sci-Tech
Bird Flu Death Toll Rises as Virus Dissipates
Four more deaths have brought the total number of fatalities from ...
Information Revolution
Caixin Suspends Legal Section Under Pressure from Censors
Under censorship pressure, Caixin’s flagship financial and b ...
The Great Divide
Sex Workers in China Face Abuse
Human Rights Watch has issued a new report looking at the abuse of ...
Environment
Protesters Take to Streets Again in Kunming
In the second related protest in two weeks, hundreds of people gat ...
China & the World
Conversations with Tibet’s Exiled Prime Minister
Harvard educated Dr. Lobsang Sangay was elected as the Tibetan gov ...
