China’s much-anticipated plan to tackle income inequality has struggled to reach a consensus, writes the Carnegie Endowment’s Yukon Huang in The Wall Street Journal: The debate was unusually broad, ranging from the...
Read MoreA Chinese octogenarian is reportedly facing trial for a murder he committed during the Cultural Revolution, according to The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips: The defendant, from Zhejiang province in east China, was accused of...
Read MoreWith the first 100 days of the Xi Jinping regime in the books, Xinhua News took time on Thursday to reflect and look ahead: Xi and the other six newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the upcoming visit to Moscow by incoming president Xi Jinping and its significance for U.S.-China relations: Mr. Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao, also chose Moscow as his first overseas stop after...
Read MoreWith the former flood of news about fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai slowing to a trickle, rumors have rushed in to fill the gap, even in China’s own state media. According to some of the more recent mutterings,...
Read MoreChina now burns almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined. As the world saw vividly this year, the effects are deadly. Many in the U.S. and elsewhere have long blamed China for not cooperating with global efforts to...
Read MoreFive people have been charged in the U.S. for smuggling honey from China to evade $180 million in anti-dumping duties. The investigation that snared them was part of a years-long campaign to protect both beekeepers and honey...
Read MoreIn the week since news emerged of the 100th Tibetan self-immolation within China’s borders since 2009, four more cases have been reported. Most recently, according to Dharamsala-based Phayul.com, a pair of teenaged former...
Read MoreAfter China’s Ministry of National Defense denied allegations made by U.S. cyber security company Mandiant that People’s Liberation Army Unit 61398 had been conducting hacking activities against targets within the U.S. and a...
Read MoreChina mulled the use of drone-delivered explosives to kill a wanted drug lord, who was later captured and sentenced to death for the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong river in 2011. The plan was revealed in a...
Read MoreChinese Overseas Port Holdings Limited took over management of the Pakistani port of Gwadar on Monday, amid suspicion of China’s growing presence in the Indian Ocean. From Reuters: China financed more than 80 percent of...
Read MoreA forthcoming book by Chinese journalists Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang claims that Wang Lijun unsuccessfully sought asylum from the U.K. months before entering the U.S. consulate in Chengdu last year, adding yet more ingredients to...
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The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms...
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