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On China Dialogue, Pew Center on Global Climate Change answers questions about the linkage between global warming and recent natural disasters in China, including this winter’s snowstorms: What are the potential lessons to...
Read MoreAs Xinhua reported (and CDT translated) last August, officials in Xinyang, Henan Province have been touting the economic and social benefits the city has accrued after banning the consumption of alcohol at official banquets. The...
Read MoreAs activists advocate for China to put an end to its use of the death penalty as it prepares to host the Olympics, the Supreme Court announced that it has rejected 15% of death sentences passed on from lower courts. But a court...
Read MoreRights lawyer Teng Biao has apparently been detained, though his wife has received no formal notice of his whereabouts since his disappearance yesterday. From the New York Times: A Chinese lawyer who has called on the Communist...
Read MoreIn another sign of the growing power of popular protest in China, the mayor of Shanghai announced that the expansion of the Maglev train line will not be pursued, at least in the immediate future, following widespread middle...
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