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Inside a Chinese Communist Party School

For Al Jazeera, Melissa Chan reports from the Central Party School in Beijing where she listens in on surprisingly freewheeling discussion: China’s ruling Communist Party’s 80 million members attend special schools to learn party ideology at facilities that serve as a training ground for the next generation of Chinese leaders. And defying stereotypes, it appears that one of the freest places in China is at the heart of the Communist Party. [...] “We have to talk about and analy

January 25, 2012 12:14 AM

South China Protests: Not So Subversive?

The Columbia University Press blog has published a post by Ho-fung Hong, author of the book “Protest with Chinese Characteristics,” who puts the recent protests in Wukan and Haimen in the

January 26, 2012 1:53 AM

China’s Arctic Ambitions Face Threat

A Norwegian newspaper has reported that poor relations between Norway and China over the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, and the series of diplomatic snubs by China that have ens

January 26, 2012 12:49 AM

Dragon Trumps Davos For Chinese Officials

The Wall Street Journal reports that China has scaled back its presence at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, which begins this week, given the conflict with the Lunar New Year holiday: Based o

January 25, 2012 10:57 PM

Apple’s China Problems

The New York Times traces the human element of Apple’s supply chain in a lengthy report on conditions at the Chinese factories that make its wildly popular devices: Some former Apple executives

January 25, 2012 8:22 PM

Fireworks Drown Out Obama’s Speech

China assumed its role as a “reliable prop” in U.S. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, but The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos questions whether the tough

January 25, 2012 7:28 PM

China’s Hidden Wealth Feeds an Income G...

For the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow looks at the role of the gray economy in obscuring China’s economic figures as the prodigious spending habits of the country’s wealthy elite att

January 25, 2012 3:21 PM