Japhet Weeks is a graduate student in Asian Studies and Journalism at UC Berkeley.
The Olympic torch arrived in London today, AP reports (via the IHT). It has already left a string of protests in its path, first in Greece and then in Istanbul, Turkey. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he will...
Read MoreAFP is reporting that as of Saturday 1.19 million people, mostly inside China, had signed a petition at Sina.com condemning the Western media’s reports of recent unrest in and around Tibet: The appeal repeats Chinese...
Read MoreHoward French examines what it’s like to be a single mother in China. From the International Herald Tribune: In a society where until quite recently premarital sex was often punished, the issue of single motherhood has...
Read MoreRobert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes in The New Republic about a changing world in which Russia and China are proving that autocratic rule is a viable model for economic...
Read MoreNewsweek’s Beijing bureau chief Melinda Liu writes on her blog, Countdown to Beijing, about reports of Muslim Uighurs clashing with police in remote Xinjiang: This is serious indeed, if true. It could represent a perfect...
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