Paulina Hartono

Paulina Hartono is a graduate of UC Berkeley.

Is China Trapped in Transition? Implications for Future Reforms

Here is the special report of the Oxford Founation for Law, Justice and Society China Programme: Abstract: This special report examines the thesis that China’s transition is stalled. Minxin Pei, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and one of the main proponents of this provocative thesis, opens the discussion by summarizing his arguments in […]

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We Are Ready – Ai Weiwei

“We are ready” is the official slogan for the countdown to the 2008 Olympics. On the first week of 2008, Beijing-based artist Ai Weiwei wrote a post on his blog on Sina.com. An artist, curator, and architectural...

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What’s Really Bothering Beijing? – Gerrit van der Wees

From Taipei Times: Almost every day, Taiwan is feeling the heat of China’s aggression: Beijing’s military threat and intimidation, more than 1,000 missiles aimed its way, constant attempts to isolate it internationally and a failure to accept Taiwan as a friendly neighbor. What is China fighting against? What is driving China’s leaders in their obsession […]

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Taiwan Fears China Is Chipping Away at U.S. Support – Wendell Minnick

From DefenseNews.com: China is having success in its diplomatic and economic campaign to weaken international support for Taiwan, the self-governing island’s de facto ambassador to Washington said. Joseph Wu, whose official title is representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO), argues that Beijing has used diplomatic and economic thuggery and threats to […]

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Unlikely Hero Takes on China’s Feudal Land Thieves – John Garnaut

Beijing-based correspondent John Garnaut continues his reporting on the Fujin peasants rising up as their land is stolen and they are turned into serfs. From Theage.com: IT’S 15 years since the then Heilongjiang provincial governor decreed how his most ambitious agricultural project was to be evaluated. “The Touxing Project involves the credibility of the country […]

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