In a new short documentary, ‘Hopeful’, Jonah Kessel shows the work of environmental NGO Friends of Nature in using new laws to hold companies accountable for their pollution. The film focuses on a Yunnan...
Read MoreAt The Atlantic, Tea Leaf Nation’s Charles Zhu interviews Michael Zhao of China Air Daily, which uses photos and satellite images to illustrate day-to-day changes and longer term trends in air quality. You also include...
Read MoreFormer U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman talked to Foreign Policy’s Isaac Stone Fish about China-bashing campaign rhetoric, Sino-U.S. relations and political sensitivities in China ahead of its looming leadership...
Read MoreAmerica’s ambassador to China has publicly acknowledged a late September visit to China’s western frontier, a region which has seen numerous self-immolations by Tibetans in protest of Chinese rule, according to The...
Read MoreLily Kuo and Ritchie King of Quartz break down the results of a just-released China public opinion survey by Pew Research Center, which revealed changing attitudes toward income inequality, corruption, the U.S. and other quality...
Read MoreChina’s National Bureau of Statistics announced on Thursday that the economy expanded 7.4% in the third quarter, in-line with analyst expectations of a seventh straight period of slowing growth. From Xinhua News: GDP...
Read MoreWhen reports came out last week of a large-scale strike at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, some observers cast doubts on their accuracy. A new report in China Business Journal interviews Foxconn workers who say that up to 4,000...
Read MoreAfter yesterday’s U.S. presidential debate, which saw more than its fair share of China bashing, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos explains the current Chinese sentiment toward the two candidates: To China, the greatest...
Read MoreThousands of people reportedly took to the streets in Luzhou, Sichuan to protest the death of a truck driver, apparently at the hands of police [See Update below]. Reuters reports: Pictures and video on China’s popular...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: The 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...
Read MoreEven though the third U.S. presidential debate will tackle specific foreign policy issues, Mark McDonald of The International Herald Tribune writes that President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney still butted...
Read MoreFrom beachfront properties in the Mediterranean, large private school tuition payments and other large overseas purchases, The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s strict restrictions on cross-border fund flows...
Read MoreLast week, CDT Chinese published the text of a decision by the State Administration on Radio, Film and Television about the 2000 movie, Devils on the Doorstep. The movie, directed by Jiang Wen, depicts the relationship between...
Read MoreApple contractor Foxconn, which briefly closed its Taiyuan plant late last month after a large worker brawl, acknowledged on Tuesday that it hired underage workers at one of its other China plants. From The Wall Street Journal:...
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