China’s Birthrate Hits Record Low, Sharpening Economic Concerns
In 2015, the Chinese government reformed its infamous “one-child policy” to allow two births for most couples, hoping that it would address a looming demographic crisis by boosting the nation’s birthrate....
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China Announces New Changes on “Original Sin” of Residency Controls
Bloomberg’s Sharon Chen and Dandan Li provide an overview of recent changes to China’s hukou residency permit system, which for decades has tightly controlled citizens’ rights to settle and receive public...
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HRW Report: China an Increasing “Global Threat to Human Rights”
Human Rights Watch has released their 30th annual “World Report” review of human rights by country. In the introduction to this year’s report, HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth wrote on the global threat to...
Read MoreSino-U.S. Tech Rivalry Continues Despite Trade Deal
U.S. measures against China’s burgeoning tech sector are set to continue despite an anticipated truce in the two countries’ ongoing trade war, The Wall Street Journal’s Bob Davis and Katy Stech Ferek reported...
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Netizens Call Out Propaganda on U.S.-Iran Tensions
With U.S.-Iran tensions high following the Trump administration’s January 3 assassination of Iranian Major General Qassim Suleimani, and retaliatory Iranian missile strikes against U.S. military bases in Iraq on January 7,...
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Human Rights Watch Director Barred from Hong Kong, as Protesters Celebrate Taiwan Election
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, was barred entry to Hong Kong, where he planned to hold a press conference to release the organization’s annual report. Officials offered no reason for the move. I...
Read MoreTsai Ing-wen Reelected in Taiwan in Historic Victory
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was decisively reelected on Saturday in an election that had become a referendum on democratic freedoms and Taiwanese autonomy. Winning 57 percent of the vote against Kuomintang challenger...
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The Costs of the Belt and Road Initiative
Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollar-plus global trade and development program that was unveiled in 2013 and enshrined into the Party constitution in 2017, has attracted both international excitement and...
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