Zhaohua Li is an American-born independent journalist based in Beijing. He has written on Asia for the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle and Frommer's guidebooks, among other publications. He is currently also a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in Chinese language studies at Tsinghua University. His interests in China run from the energy and the environment to media and pop culture.
After days of silence on the issue, the Chinese government is now claiming an alleged attempt to crash a China Southern flight from Urumqi to Beijing earlier this month was the work of Uighur separatists. From the Associated...
Read MoreIn what appears to be a damage control move following criticisms over its handling of the Tibet riots, a top Chinese propaganda official reaffirms earlier suggestions that the country will enforce liberalized rules for foreign...
Read MoreChina brings in a ringer, Wang Qishan (王岐山), to solve it’s problems with rapidly rising prices. From Bloomberg: Wang helped former Premier Zhu Rongji to tackle inflation that soared to as much as 27 percent in 1994. The...
Read MoreApparently, when it comes to American jobs and China, it’s no longer all take and no give. From AP via CNN.com: Just as the earlier arrival of Japanese companies changed U.S. manufacturing, over time Chinese companies...
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