Translations: Train Incident Becomes Metaphor for Principled Disobedience – “Smash That Window, and Take a Breath of Freedom!”
A man who used an onboard emergency hammer to smash a hole in the window of a stalled train to...
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Chinese Firms at the Center of Serbia’s Political Crisis
The collapse of Serbia’s Novi Sad train station roof last month killed 15 people and severely injured two others, igniting weeks-long, nationwide protests against government corruption that is widely perceived to be at the root...
China Treads Cautiously on Expanding Trade and Investment with the Taliban
Three years after the Chinese government’s cautiously supportive stance toward the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan led to Chinese netizens blasting their government for being “Taliban in spirit,” China has maintained its...
Translation: The Problems of Inefficient Infrastructure Spending Are Beginning to Surface
After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure...
Translation: The Curse of the Security Check
Anyone who has boarded an airplane in the last 20 years knows what stands between arrival at the terminal and waiting at the gate: shoes off, laptops out, water bottles emptied …. In China, similar checkpoints also await railway...
China’s Surveillance State: Henan, Xinjiang, and Beyond
As new Chinese surveillance technology spreads across the country and beyond, Sixth Tone’s...
Al Jazeera Reporter Strikes Trouble in Sichuan
On May 16, tens of thousands of Linshui residents clashed with police after protesting the...
Minitrue: Violent Protest to “Save the Railroad”
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Protests For Sichuan Rail Line Turn Bloody
China’s High Speed Rail network has rapidly expanded beyond the shadow of early disaster to...
Beijing Protests Modi’s Visit to Disputed Border Region
On Friday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to Arunachal Pradesh, a north-eastern...
China “Using a Bulldozer to Herd Mice” in Tibet
The Economist examines the Communist Party’s policy of integrating Tibet with the rest of...
High-Speed Rail Network To Be Doubled
Mark Stone at Sky News spoke to passengers on China’s high-speed trains about the...
High-Speed Rail Network Passes 12,000km Mark
The opening of the Shenzhen-Xiamen and several other high-speed rail lines on Saturday brought the...
Hauling New Treasure Along the Silk Road
At The New York Times, Keith Bradsher describes the revival of an ancient trade route: Azamat Kulyenov, a 26-year-old train driver, slid the black-knobbed throttle forward, and the 1,800-ton express freight train, nearly a...
China Unveils Plans for Streamlined Government
China’s State Council has submitted widely-anticipated plans for the restructuring of several government agencies to the National People’s Congress. The seventh such initiative in the past 30 years, the new plan aims...
China Approves Series of Infrastructure Projects
Aiming to boost its economy, China has recently approved huge budget allocations for railway and subway projects. From Reuters: China has approved construction of two city subway projects worth 49 billion yuan ($7.87 billion),...
Boss Rail: How the Wenzhou Crash Exposed Corruption in China (Updated)
In the New Yorker, Evan Osnos has written an in-depth exploration of the July 2011 train crash in Wenzhou, which killed 40 people and generated online outrage over the government’s handling of the tragedy. Osnos pieces...
China’s Railway Network of Corruption
Liu Zhijun, formerly China’s Minister of Railways, was removed from office on charges of corruption in 2011 and expelled from the party earlier this year. Liu’s return to state media coverage has led to speculation...
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