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For the Atlantic, Howard French writes that the Jasmine Revolution in China, despite recent media reports to the contrary, has been a great success: To be clear, the argument here is not that China is flirting with a...
Read MoreZheng Yuanjie (郑渊洁; born 1955) is known as the Chinese King of Fairy Tales. He wrote the following on his blog during the ongoing NPC meetings in Beijing (Translated by CDT): Zheng Yuanjie is psychologically unstable I am sixty-...
Read MoreGlobal Post looks at the current situation of China’s youth and why it is unlikely they will lead an anti-government rebellion like those in Egypt and Tunisia: Andrea den Boer, co-author of the 2005 book “Bare Branches,”...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports and provides more details about the recent harassment of foreign journalists in China: On Sunday, about a dozen European and Japanese journalists in Shanghai were herded into an underground bunker-like...
Read MoreDelegates at the National People’s Congress meetings. See more images from the NPC session by Jordan Pouille
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