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.
Elizabeth Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations writes that new leader Xi Jinping “has one over-riding political mandate: clean up corruption or clear out.” From urging a no-nonsense approach to government, to...
Read MoreThe New Yorker’s Evan Osnos reflects on the series of sex scandals involving Chinese government officials that have emerged over the past few weeks: I wrote, not long ago, about the odd political significance of an orgy...
Read MoreWhile Chinese netizens expressed outrage yesterday at the fact that Xinhua News had been operating a Twitter account for months while they were barred from using the microblogging service, The Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore...
Read MoreA report in a domestic newspaper has tipped off Chinese citizens to the fact that the official Xinhua News Agency has been posting on Twitter (@XHNews) since March 1, even though Twitter is banned in China, and The South China...
Read MoreClifford Coonan of The Independent catches up with Angelica Cheung, the editor of Vogue China, to discuss the challenges facing women in modern China and the secret behind the success of her magazine: Cheung believes the reason...
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