Tim Lesle is a freelance journalist and student at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. His personal website is telesle.net, his personal blog is here.
Analysts at the Rand Corp. think-tank have scoured Chinese military sources to see what the People’s Liberation Army strategy might be if it ever goes to war with a country that “isn’t explicitly named but is unmistakably the U.S.,” according to the Air Force Times. Such a conflict would likely be sparked by differences over […]
Read MoreThe Indo-Asian News Service profiles Kapil Gautam, a 27-year-old Indian yoga instructor who moved to Shenyang in 2006: Having mastered Japanese and Spanish in Delhi University, Gautam came to China two years ago to study a new language. He ended up in Shenyang town, about 700 km northeast of Beijing where temperatures dip in winter […]
Read MoreIn the latest version of the China-as-untapped-market story, U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies see a changing China as the place to maintain sales growth, writes Bloomberg’s Shannon Pettypiece: Penetrating the Chinese market is crucial for the drugmakers as China’s middle class of 300 million already matches the entire U.S. population and will double in three […]
Read MoreToy manufacturing is the gift that keeps giving if you’re on the China beat during the holidays. After presidential candidate Barack Obama’s remarks about banning Chinese toy imports to the U.S., the Los Angeles Times’s Barbara Demick visited Beijing’s Hongqiao toy market: Especially to an older generation of Chinese, who were raised without the privileges […]
Read MoreIn Newsweek, Beijing bureau chief Melinda Liu has a long essay about the changes in modern China as viewed through the lens of her family and her work as a reporter. It covers everything from the separation of a brother due to Communism’s rise to the return of first- and second-generation Chinese-Americans who want to […]
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