Scott Greene grew up in Singapore and graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in East Asian Studies. His chief interests are Asian politics, business, media, information control, and international affairs.
In a telephone interview with Reuters on Tuesday, dissident artist Ai Weiwei said that Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court had accepted his lawsuit against local tax authorities: “I hope that they can make an...
Read MoreAmid perhaps the greatest political turmoil it has seen since 1989, Reuters reports that China’s Communist Party is “seriously considering” pushing back its upcoming party congress by several months as it...
Read MoreAfter rejecting his offer to buy a 300 square km piece of land in November, property tycoon Huang Nubo now claims that Icelandic authorities have approved a deal that would allow him to lease the land instead. From China Daily:...
Read MoreA new investigative report in Hong Kong magazine New Way claims that disgraced former Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai conjured three potential cover-up stories for the planned assassination of his police chief, Wang Lijun, before...
Read MoreTIME’s Fareed Zakaria reminds China watchers that for all the deserved attention given by the media to escaped blind activist Chen Guangcheng in recent days, the Bo Xilai saga remains “part of a much larger and...
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