Duplitecture: China’s White Houses
At 99% Invisible, Roman Mars, Avery Trufelman and Bianca Bosker look at the phenomenon of...
White House
Path Forward Unclear After Obama-Dalai Lama Meeting
While few negative repercussions are anticipated from last week’s meeting between Barack...
Little Fallout Expected from Dalai Lama-Obama Meeting
The White House has issued a statement on Friday’s low-key meeting between President Obama...
Obama to Meet Dalai Lama at White House
President Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday, two days after a senior...
Online Petition Site Sees Shaky Debut
China’s official online petition platform had a rough first day on Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report, which notes that the web site “triggered mockery across China’s social...
Creator of White House Petition Visited by Police
Chinese netizens have recently discovered the public petition system on the White House website, and several petitions created by Chinese citizens have gone viral, notably one calling for an investigation of a 1994 poisoning...
Obama, Minister of China Petitions?
The recent poisoning death of Huang Yang, a graduate student at Fudan University in Shanghai, has triggered inquiries among netizens over the unsolved 1994 poisoning of Zhu Ling, then an undergraduate at Tsinghua University....
Obama’s Comedy Not Routine for Chinese Audience
At China Real Time, Josh Chin looks at Chinese netizens’ mixed reactions to president Obama’s performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. To be sure, some of Mr. Obama’s jokes managed to...
Chen Guangcheng Begins Life in New York
At The Daily Beast, Melinda Liu described the beginning of Chen Guangcheng and his family’s life in New York as they embraced the spring sunshine while avoiding, for now, the glare of the media. Feeling the warm sun on his...
Hu Gets the Best Wine
China’s Central Propaganda Department warned domestic media not to hype gourmet food served at the recent Two Sessions, hoping to avoid stoking resentment over the country’s growing wealth gap. Bloomberg’s...
Obama to Meet Dalai Lama at White House: China Protests
The Associated Press reports that Barack Obama has invited the visiting Dalai Lama to the White House. Employing a low-key approach, the White House has set the meeting in the White House Map Room, not the Oval Office, which is...
White House Debunks Reports It Will Fly China’s Flag on South Lawn
China Daily reported that the Chinese flag was to be hoisted on the White House lawn as part of a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the PRC: The national flag of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will be hoisted at...
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