China’s APEC Summit: Showing Off to the World
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 6, 2014
As the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit begins in Beijing this week, The Economist...
Read MoreZhou Yongkang Case To Take Longer Than Expected
by Sophie Beach | Nov 6, 2014
The case against former security chief Zhou Yongkang has been slowly gathering steam over the past...
Read MoreCadres Harboring Dalai Lama ‘Fantasies’ to be Punished
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 5, 2014
After Beijing quickly dismissed the Dalai Lama’s recent claims that he was in informal...
Read MoreAli Baba’s Cave, Pandora’s Box, and China’s Cyberczar
by SW | Nov 5, 2014
At China Media Project, David Bandurski examines the career and colorful rhetoric of China’s...
Read MoreU.S. Denies Woman Asylum Over One Child Policy Role
by radish | Nov 5, 2014
A Chinese woman whose application for asylum in the U.S. was rejected due to her complicity in...
Read MoreScapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 5, 2014
Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese...
Read MoreParty Warns Zhejiang Officials Against Religion
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 5, 2014
At the New York Times, Austin Ramzy reports that a recent statement from China’s anti-graft...
Read MoreMinitrue: Only the Good on Beijing APEC Summit
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 5, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Read MoreThe Fourth Plenum’s Rule of Law Rorschach Test
by SW | Nov 5, 2014
The Party’s Fourth Plenum last month laid out its vision of a “Socialist rule of...
Read MoreChina Sends Aid to Fight Ebola
by Sophie Beach | Nov 4, 2014
As the deadly Ebola virus spreads in Western African countries, and as sometimes irrational fears...
Read MoreThe Poetry and Brief Life of a Foxconn Worker
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 4, 2014
Taiwanese manufacturing contractor Foxconn—a firm responsible for assembling as much as 40% of...
Read MoreWhile Courting Beijing Ma Ying-jeou Backs HK Protest
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 4, 2014
In March of this year, student protesters occupied Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan to express...
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