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In The Times, Zahid Hussain and Jane Macartney report on the suicide bombing outside Peshawar, Pakistan which apparently targeted Chinese workers traveling in a bus convoy: Pakistani security forces said they were certain that the Chinese were the targets of the attack, and Chinese in Pakistan were urged to be on their guard against more […]
Read MoreApparently many family members of the victims of the Shanxi slave labor case are not appeased by the recent sentences handed down to brick kiln management: “We are very angry. This sentence is too lenient,” said Zhang Shanlin, father of a young man so badly beaten and burned that he cannot walk without assistance. “The […]
Read MoreThe BBC reports on the CCP’s preparations for the fall’s 17th Party Congress and surmises possible discussions going on behind the scenes: Leadership changes will not be quite as dramatic as they were at the last congress in 2002, when former President Jiang Zemin stepped down as the party’s general secretary, paving the way for […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post has written an editorial condemning the recent clampdown on the media and activists, including the closure of China Development Brief: The publication was also unusual in that it was not registered with the Chinese government or controlled by the state, and yet it was seen to be relatively friendly to the Chinese […]
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Times reports on a letter signed by 17 former top officials and conservative Marxists who accuse the Communist Party of “going down an evil road”. A scholar of Party history is quoted as saying this may be the first time so many high-ranking people have joined together to speak out: The letter […]
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