As China and Japan move to ease tensions over the Diaoyu Islands, Allen Carlson at Foreign Affairs says China cannot afford a military conflict with any of its Asian neighbors: It is not that China believes it would lose such a...
Read MoreCDT previously reported on the aniline spill in Changzhi that affected the water supply of a handful of cities. The New York Times reports this spill has drawn attention to the growing water problem in northern China: “Problems...
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Read MoreDrug lord Naw Kham and three other foreigners were executed in Kunming on Friday for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River. State broadcaster CCTV aired the prisoners’ final hours, together with...
Read MoreCaijing reports on a draft plan to merge the Ministry of Railways into a larger “super-ministry”: Caijing learned in late February that the draft plan for a new round of “super ministries” reform will be...
Read MoreThe annual meeting of China’s National People’s Congress – the rubber-stamp legislature that is, in theory at least, the head of the Chinese state – is set to commence on March 5 at Beijing’s Great...
Read MoreIncoming president Xi Jinping has pledged to uphold the constitution and rule of law in China. But, as Stanley Lubman points out in a post on the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time, this is a complicated prospect given...
Read MoreCelebrated investigative journalist Wang Keqin has been forced to leave the Economic Observer, apparently in connection with its unrestrained coverage of flooding which killed at least 77 people in Beijing last summer and other...
Read MoreAlthough Mekong River murderer and drug lord Naw Kham died by lethal injection yesterday, rather than by the drone strike once proposed, the military and civilian roles of China’s unmanned aerial vehicles are set to expand...
Read MoreWhile John Garnaut focuses on Xi Jinping’s former study group of “Second Generation Reds”, Sheila Melvin at ChinaFile looks at another gathering of China’s political elite: the short-lived Three Highs...
Read MoreA majority of more than 62,000 respondents to a Sina.com poll support allowing same-sex marriage under China’s Marriage Law, according to Tea Leaf Nation’s David Wertime: The poll allows respondents four choices: “I...
Read MoreAfter responding to a report linking the Chinese army to cyber attacks against the U.S. by claiming that America had perpetrated cyber attacks in China as well, China on Thursday provided details of the alleged intrusions . From...
Read MoreThousands who travel to Beijing to present grievances against local governments land in the capital’s official detention centers and unofficial black jails before being returned to their home provinces. Despite some signs...
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