The father of a brain-damaged former Foxconn worker sued the world’s biggest electronics manufacturer this Tuesday. Tan Ee Lyn at Reuters reveals the shady tactics played by Foxconn in such worker compensation disputes:...
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Beijing taxis will be stuffier than usual in the run-up to leadership transition of the 18th Party...
Read MoreThe CDT Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and...
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As of October 31, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
Read MoreAt The New York Times’ The Lede blog, David Barboza answered readers’ questions about his recent investigation into the wealth of Wen Jiabao’s family, discussing the article’s origins, timing and sources:...
Read MoreIn the New Statesman, Tibetan dissident Tsering Woeser writes about the tightening government control over Tibet as a result of recent protests: Early one summer morning in August, travelling from Golmud to Lhasa on the...
Read MoreAlthough CCP leaders have been trying to present themselves as a unified entity, the behind-the-scenes power struggle appears to be heating up as the leadership transition draws near. CNN’s Alexis Lai analyzes the split...
Read MoreOn NPR, Louisa Lim interviews Bao Tong, former aide to former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, about the current state of the Communist Party and the new generation of leadership who is slated to take power early next year:...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports Australia plans to grow business with Asian countries, including China and India, to a third of its economy. This plan comes amid growing anxieties over China’s increasing influence in Australia:...
Read MoreWhile China was able to blast its astronauts into space and send a submarine down into the depths of the sea, it has yet to build a successful jet engine. Previously, China has relied on Russia for advanced fighter aircraft....
Read MoreTaiwan has arrested a retired Taiwanese naval officer and two others on suspicion of spying for China, according to The Wall Street Journal: Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement Monday that Lt. Col....
Read MoreThe growing number of mass incidents around China might show people’s impatience with the slow pace of top-down political reforms, but the bottom-up approach is not progressing smoothly either. At Reuters, John Ruwitch and...
Read MoreFor The Diplomat, A. Greer Meisels feels the pain of China-watchers struggling to figure out what Xi Jinping actually believes and where he may lead China when he assumes power: It is hard to know what a politician really...
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