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In Asia Sentinel, Philip Bowring says the new consultation document on Hong Kong democracy “muddies the debate and obscures the truth”: The Hong Kong government’s continuing charade that the people here have the determining voice in the territory’s constitutional development has found its latest expression with the publication of a Green Paper – a consultation […]
Read MoreInternational Monetary Fund data predicts that China will surpass Germany as the third largest economy in the world this year. From Dow Jones: Recent estimates put the size of China’s gross domestic product in the past year at $2.8 trillion, breathing down the neck of Germany’s $2.9 trillion national output for the period, The Wall […]
Read MoreThe New York Times sculptor Zhang Jianhua, whose work portraying coal miners has not been welcomed by the authorities: Although Mr. Zhang, 35, has an impeccable background as a student of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and has received critical praise for years, no Chinese museum or established gallery has been willing to display […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: In a further sign of the growing influence of the Internet in China, and growing fears about the technology among local party officials, authorities in the southern city of Xinyi apprehended three men accused of circulating “rumors” on the Internet about a serial rapist. Columnist and CMP fellow Yan Lieshan criticized […]
Read MoreThe Guardian follows up on the closure of China Development Brief: The publication’s role as a bridge between NGOs in China and the outside world may have raised the suspicions of the Communist government, which clamps down hard on any group that is in a position to link independent voices. China’s leadership is known to […]
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