Baidu Rolls Out Mobile Browser

At its annual conference in Beijing, search giant Baidu launched a mobile browser as it looks to position itself in a market that eclipses the entire U.S. population in size. From Reuters: The Baidu Mobile Browser, which will...

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Flights Grounded By Fake Threats

After Air China’s grounding of a flight due to a threat, another Chinese commercial airliner had to change its course because of a fake threat, from The Wall Street Journal: For the second day in a row, a Chinese commercial...

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Ai Weiwei Protege Zhao Zhao Under Pressure

At Spiegel Online, Ulrike Knöfel profiles provocative Beijing artist Zhao Zhao and two of the gallery owners who have backed him. A former assistant to Ai Weiwei, Zhao appears in the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry in a...

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Contrasting Forecasts for China

At Foreign Policy, Minxin Pei argues that China’s continued rise is not a foregone conclusion, and that the U.S. should ready itself for a Chinese decline. Americans, he suggests, have long tended to overestimate the...

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Quasi-Emperors and Displaced Villagers

McClatchy’s Tom Lasseter traveled to the eastern suburbs of Beijing to visit a luxury housing development with villas ranging from $4.7 million to nearly $50 million, one of which was lavishly upholstered with...

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