Netizen Voices: As Sino-Japanese Tensions Rise, “Tourism is Treated like a Chamberpot, a Disposable Tool”
The diplomatic crisis between China and Japan continues to intensify, following Japanese Prime...
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Despite Chinese Repatriation Efforts, Regional Scam Centers Remain A Thorny Problem
Following increased attention to Southeast Asia’s online scam industry, especially since the high-profile abduction and rescue of Chinese actor Wang Xing from a compound on the Myanmar-Thailand border in January, the Chinese...
Censors Delete Tale of Police Overreach in Anti-Fraud Case
Last week, Weibo censors took down a post by a popular food blogger describing how all her bank accounts were frozen due to a local police department’s arbitrary and unprofessional “anti-fraud” case work. Her Kafka-esque account...
Belt and Road Initiative Takes New Path as State Funding Declines
New reports suggest that China has dramatically curtailed lending towards the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping’s flagship global infrastructure and trade program. First proposed in 2013, the BRI is a trillion-dollar...
The Costs of the Belt and Road Initiative
Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollar-plus global trade and development program that was unveiled in 2013 and enshrined into the Party constitution in 2017, has attracted both international excitement and...
Report Warns of “China Model” of Net Control
Freedom House released its annual “Freedom on the Net” report on Thursday with the...
Report: Belt and Road Aims to Expand Beijing’s Influence
Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollar-plus, 65-nation trade and...
One Belt, One Road, One Global PR Blitz
Over the weekend, Beijing hosted an international conference to promote its “Belt and...
China Offers Drought Relief Downstream
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
China Urged to Confront Its Own History
While the Chinese government is known to gloss over many unflattering occurrences in modern...
Brides For Sale: Vietnamese Women Trafficked To China
While China grapples with the economic and demographic consequences of its family planning...
As China Builds, Cambodia’s Forests Fall
Michael Sullivan at National Public Radio describes how Cambodia’s forests are falling prey to China’s enormous demand for lumber: “It’s just like in the United States in the 1960s, when every single...
ASEAN Calls for Talks With China on Sea Dispute
As the tensions between China and other countries over the sovereignty of the South China Sea continues, Reuters reports Southeast Asian leaders want to hold formal talks with China about the South China Sea disputes as soon as...
Ministry of Truth: Obama and Beijing
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies...
Beijing Flags at Half-Staff for Cambodian King
On October 17, flags were flown at half-staff at Tiananmen Square and Zhongnanhai in mourning for former King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk, who passed away in Beijing on the 15th. Ruling from his country’s independence...
China Considered Cambodia King Key Ally
The Los Angeles Times reports the former king of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk, has died in Beijing due to natural causes: Sihanouk had various forms of cancer, diabetes and hypertension and had sought medical care in China since...
Frenchman Linked to Bo Arrives in China
According to AFP’s interviews with Cambodian police, Frenchman Patrick Henri Devillers, who is believed to have close ties to Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai, has returned to China to help the investigation into the...
Source: Bo Xilai “is Denying Everything”
The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips reports that disgraced former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai has denied involvement in or knowledge of the events surrounding the death of British businessman Neil Heywood, according to a...
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