Crackdown on Christian Groups by N. Korea Border
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan and James Pearson report that China is clamping down on Christian...
Read MorePosted by Grace | Aug 11, 2014
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan and James Pearson report that China is clamping down on Christian...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | May 19, 2014
Rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Liu Shihui are among the latest to be detained as the government...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Feb 24, 2014
At The New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson reviews two volumes on the past and present of...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Nov 27, 2013
China has greeted an Islamist group’s description of last month’s Tiananmen attack as...
Read MorePosted by Xiao Qiang | Mar 14, 2009
Shanghai-based blogger Persian Xiaozhao published this post on March 10, 2009 on her second Sohu blog (the first one was censored on Jan. 13, 2009, after her article: “I Signed My Name After a Good Cry”). On March...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Nov 14, 2008
Tim Johnson of McClatchy Newspapers reports from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia on efforts by ethnic Mongolians to preserve their culture in the face of widespread assimilation: Over the last six decades, China has kept an open-door...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Figuers | Jun 10, 2007
From Financial Times: India’s strengthening ties with the US are the cause of China’s increasingly aggressive position over the disputed India-China border in the eastern Himalayas, according to security affairs analysts in both countries. The two fast-growing economies have co-ordinated their approach to climate change through the Group of Eight, and bilateral trade surged 56 […]
Read MorePosted by Stephanie Lo | Apr 8, 2007
From China Rises: Notes from the Middle Kingdom: No two ways about it. The new headquarters for the Chinese state TV channel going up near our apartment looks dangerous. It’s been called a “twisted doughnut.” It’s a startling sight. Two angular upward towers with a gravity-defying cantilevered cross section. Imagine working in that mid-section 40 […]
Read MorePosted by Mo Ming | Dec 29, 2006
From Guardian Unlimited: China’s internet population increased by almost one-third during 2006, reinforcing the country’s position as one of the most powerful internet economies in the world. The total number of people using the internet in China has risen to 132 million, according to state news agency Xinhua. The number of people accessing the web […]
Read MorePosted by Mo Ming | Nov 21, 2006
From Financial Times: China and India on Tuesday promised to make co-operation rather than conflict the leitmotif of their rise as global economic powers, but failed to dispel the mutual suspicion that continued to blight bilateral ties. Describing China and India as “two major countries in the emerging multi-polar world order” Hu Jintao, China’s president, […]
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