As accusations of hacking take an increasingly prominent role in Sino-U.S. relations, former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen argues that a quieter approach will yield better results than “megaphone diplomacy”....
Read MoreThe Guardian’s Tania Branigan profiles 60-year-old Zhang Hongbing, whose denunciation of his mother during the Cultural Revolution led to her execution. Zhang is now trying to make amends for his role in his mother’s...
Read MoreThe Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
Read MoreChinese courts in Xinjiang province have sentenced 20 people to jail, some for life, on charges of separatism and for plotting violent acts against the state. From Reuters: The courts in Kashgar and Bayingol said the 20 –...
Read MoreChinese executives are flocking back to graduate school, writes Kit Gillet of The New York Times, taking advantage of education opportunities that did not exist when they were younger: After three decades of the kind of rapid...
Read MoreBeijing law enforcement officials on Monday shut down a clinic for illegally conducting in-vitro fertilisation and surrogacy services, according to the South China Morning Post: An official investigation into the illegal clinic...
Read MoreAs Xi Jinping arrives in South Africa for a summit meeting of the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—Graham Allison suggests that grouping China together with the “RIBS” is misleading. From...
Read MoreA Chinese national has been sentenced to almost six years in prison by a New Jersey court for handing defense secrets to China. Sixing Liu maintains his innocence, however, and insists that he has been the victim of a...
Read MoreWhen Xi Jinping was inaugurated as China’s President during the National People’s Congress, he gave a speech on “the Chinese Dream.” In the speech, he elaborated on this concept, according to...
Read MoreA Manhattan judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by eight New York-based writers and video producers against Baidu and China itself in 2011. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ruled that the defendants have not been and likely...
Read MorePeng Liyuan, wife of the new Chinese president Xi Jinping, has lit up Weibo with her glamour. The censors have balked at discussions of her outfits, though their work has not done much to dampen “first lady fever.”...
Read MoreAmid continuing tensions in the South China Sea, Vietnam is accusing China of attacking fishermen in the disputed region. Reuters reports: A statement posted on the Vietnamese government’s website said the trawler was...
Read MoreAs dead pigs are fished out of the Huangpu River near Shanghai, local officials say around 1000 dead ducks have been found in the Nanhe River in Sichuan Province. From The BBC: Speaking in an interview with China National Radio...
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