China’s Dam Boom “a Faustian Bargain”
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
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U.S. Ambassador Locke on Human Rights in Xinjiang
In a short interview with Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish, U.S. ambassador to China Gary...
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China’s Government Spending: Central vs. Local
The Economist’s Daily Chart examines China’s bottom-heavy government spending and...
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Petitioners Swamp New Legal Ombudsman Pan Shiyi
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reports that real estate tycoon and social media...
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Lukewarm Response to Beijing Winter Olympic Bid
China’s Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday that it will bid against Germany, Kazakhstan,...
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Word of the Week: Scale the Wall
翻墙 (fān qiáng): scale the wall The “wall” refers to the Great Firewall of China, a large-scale,...
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Censorship Vault: Turmoil in Turpan
The following propaganda directive was first published by Reporters Without Borders. State...
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Graft Probe Targets Xinhua and Commerce Ministry
In the latest round of the ongoing government crackdown on corruption, Xinhua news agency and the...
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Restaurants Serve Cultural Revolution Nostalgia
Adam Century at The Atlantic looks at Chongqing’s red restaurant phenomenon in which...
Read MoreOne Killed in Explosions Outside Taiyuan CCP Headquarters (Updated)
One person has been reported killed and several injured so far in a series of explosions that went off outside the Communist Party headquarters in Taiyuan, Shanxi, according to Xinhua. Few other details have been released. From...
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What will Replace Re-education Through Labor?
As the Chinese government moves ahead with plans to abolish the reeducation through labor system...
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Censorship Vault: Miswriting Xi Jinping’s Name
The following propaganda directive was first published by Reporters Without Borders. Xiamen...
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Minitrue: Luo Changping May Win Integrity Award
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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