Foreign scholars of China are learning their are limits to their access if their research doesn’t fit the Chinese government agenda. From The National: Foreign scholars are finding the China field an increasingly dangerous...
Read MoreAs the Olympic torch continues its beleaguered relay through China’s Western regions, Der Spiegel reports on how it played in Kashgar: On the day of the torch run, only invited guests from selected “work units”...
Read MoreOn Friday new retail prices for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel came into effect in China. From Asia Times: The retail price for petrol was raised 16.7% to 6,980 yuan (US$1,014) a tonne, effective on Friday, by the National...
Read MoreThe analysts at Stratfor have taken a look at China’s historic and contemporary geopolitics and, in a monograph explaining their findings, they have included this compelling theoretical map that highlights the core of...
Read MoreFrom the Atlantic Monthly: It isn’t only Tibetans who have risen up against Chinese rule, but also Turkic Moslem Uighurs in China’s far western province of Xinjiang. The Chinese have reacted by arresting Uighur (pronounced...
Read MoreFrom AP: Organizers of the Olympic torch relay said Monday the flame’s arrival in Tibet would be postponed, but declined to give an exact date for the torch’s journey through the region, which has been shrouded in...
Read MoreIn the International Herald Tribune, Howard French travels to Xinjiang to explore the history of China’s western regions: Xinjiang alone comprises one-sixth of the land of the People’s Republic of China, and Tibet, such as...
Read MoreFrom New York Times: The reports of terror plots emanating this year from this Muslim region in the far west of China might seem fanciful: A foiled plot to blow up a plane; a cache of TNT to bomb the Summer Olympics; even a...
Read MoreFrom Council on Foreign Relations website: As the 2008 Summer Olympic Games hosted by Beijing draw closer, China faces increasing pressures for reform on issues ranging from human rights to press freedom. Minky Worden, media...
Read MoreDuring his 2000 presidential campaign, George Bush said he’d take China to task over its human rights record, but Joshua Kurlantzick writes in The New Republic that the president’s China policy today is the exact...
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