TWO fire engines stood parked by the road leading past Kashgar’s main mosque. They were clearly not deployed to fight any fires. Atop one sat a helmeted officer behind a shield. The nozzle of the vehicle’s water hose...
Read MoreHu Jintao has been keen to emphasize ‘fairness’ in China. But has the message reached the ears of many of the country’s officials? Read the article in The Diplomat here: Over the Chinese New Year holiday, a crowd of passengers...
Read MoreThe Chinese government faces a turbulent time of domestic unrest and challenges from “hostile Western forces” that it will fight with more sophisticated controls, a Communist Party law-and-order official said. Read...
Read MoreWhile the world is transfixed by the Tahrir Square struggle in Cairo and the role of new media, China quietly removed “Egypt” as a searchable term on its web. Egypt has brought to the fore the challenges China’s next generation...
Read MoreMark Seldon blogs in a series titled “My First Trip to China”. Read his blog in the Hong Kong Economic journal here: I was a fellow traveler in the 1972 Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars trip to China with Richard Bernstein...
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