Nicaragua’s National Assembly has, as expected, approved plans for a Chinese firm to build and run a new waterway to rival the Panama Canal. From José De Córdoba at The Wall Street Journal: Supporters of the 50-year...
Read MoreAs persistent safety issues with domestic infant formula batters the confidence of Chinese consumers, a demand for imported formula has foreign dairy firms looking to China’s market and China struggling to crackdown on...
Read MoreExiled Chinese author Ma Jian, whose newest novel The Dark Road saw its North American release yesterday, gave a very personal interview to the Daily Beast. The interview touches on everything from the...
Read MoreLiu Xia, wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, has issued an open letter to Xi Jinping highlighting her own illegal house arrest and her brother’s recent conviction for fraud, which supporters claim was...
Read MoreDu Bin, a documentary filmmaker, photographer and author based in Beijing, disappeared on May 31 and is being held under criminal detention. Du, who worked as a freelance photographer for the New York Times, directed documentary...
Read MoreAs China’s growing demand for dairy products is expected to keep rising, and as its domestic industry is currently unable to satisfy demand and riddled with safety scandals, California dairy farmers are suffering due to...
Read MoreYe Haiyan, a gender rights activist, was released from police detention but continued to face harassment. From Mimi Lau at the South China Morning Post: She was accused of assaulting three women who stormed into her apartment...
Read MoreIn her latest “Letter from China,” the New York Times’ Didi Kirsten Tatlow provides an overview of the newly released book Chinese Industrial Espionage: Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation....
Read MoreAt Aeon Magazine, James Palmer describes the political, economic and cultural drives behind the $60 billion Traditional Chinese Medicine industry in China and Hong Kong, and its uneasy relationship with science and modern...
Read MoreToday’s allegations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that the U.S. government has long been hacking into Hong Kong and mainland Chinese computer systems are “certain to stain Washington’s image and test...
Read MoreThe Dalai Lama on Thursday said that Tibetan self-immolations have had little impact on Chinese policies. From Reuters: “It’s a sad thing that happens. Of course it’s very very sad. In the meantime, I express I...
Read MoreAt Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson describes a paper from the latest, China-themed issue of The Lancet medical journal, which shows that China’s health problems increasingly resemble those of developed countries....
Read MoreWhile China’s family planning policies have long been controversial, India’s “rights-based” approach has won international praise. At The Globe and Mail, however, Stephanie Nolan reports that the two...
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