U.S., Aus, Japan, India Mull Belt and Road Alternative
The Australian Financial Review’s Phillip Cooley reports on discussions between Australia,...
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A Historian’s Advice: Learn From Others’ Mistakes
China declared “war on pollution” in 2014 after public anger concerning the nation’s infamous and...
Tibetan Cultures Pressured From Within and Without
Since 2009, over 140 Tibetans have self-immolated in protest as authorities have tightened...
How China Won the Keys to Disney’s Magic Kingdom
Seven years since getting a green light from Beijing and five since the official breaking of...
IMF: China One of the World’s Most Unequal Countries
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper on fiscal policy and income inequality in China...
China Then and Now
Since Deng Xiaoping initiated market reforms over three decades ago, China has transformed from an...
Will Urban Sprawl Affect China’s Food Security?
At the Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman looks at the town of Nanzhuang, south of Beijing, where hundreds...
CDT Bookshelf: Dan Washburn on Golf in China
Dan Washburn worked as a sports writer and columnist at a small newspaper in Georgia prior to his...
Is China Still a ‘Developing’ Country?
After Barack Obama called on China to join in leading the world in carbon reduction at the UN...
China’s Aid to Africa: Monster or Messiah?
At Brookings, Yun Sun explores the heated debate around China’s presence in Africa which...
New Urbanization Plan Faces Hurdles
Since coming to power, China’s new leadership has been touting the benefits that increased...
One City, Many Changes: A Reporter’s Return to Zigong
Marketplace’s China correspondent Rob Schmitz reunites with friends and former students he met...
Rural Desperation Mounts Amid Urbanization
Amid a renewed commitment to urbanization from China’s new leadership, a recent survey by...
China’s ‘Ghost Cities’ May Not Be So Spooky
Wall Street Journal’s China Realtime Report covers a recently released report from a CLSA...
A Mongolian Shaman in Atheist China
The Guardian’s Jonathan Kaiman visits a herder-turned-shaman who acts as a “short...
Photos: Rising Above China
At Panos Pictures (via Howard French), a set of 63 photographs by Kacper Kowalski shows Chinese industry, agriculture, communities and development from the air: ‘The person who coined the term cityscape must have had China...
Are Beijing’s Expectations for Urbanization Realistic?
South China Morning Post’s Tom Holland suggests that Beijing’s faith in urbanization as an economic engine may be misplaced: Urbanisation is not just the centrepiece of new Premier Li Keqiang’s economic...
Why China’s Riches Won’t Bring It Freedom
At Bloomberg View, Pankaj Mishra examines China’s challenge to the advance of liberal democracy and its relationship with economic growth. “Development is the only hard truth,” Deng claimed. “If we do not develop, then we...
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