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...
Read MoreWhile president-in-waiting Xi Jinping’s February trip to the United States may have burnished his image as a statesman ahead of his promotion next month, The Diplomat’s Anka Lee writes that foreign affairs may have...
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Read MoreChanges in the CCP leadership are being cemented as the 18th Party Congress draws closer. Ling Jihua, an ally of outgoing President and Party General Secretary Hu Jintao, was removed from his powerful post as director of the...
Read MoreAfter 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...
Read MoreAs of September 1, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function): P People News (P民报): A satirical netizen Weibo publication. In the past few days, it has been completely wiped...
Read MoreDespite the recent controversy over the release of detained Chinese fishermen, Chinese defense minister, Liang Guanglie, said China is focusing on peaceful development with Sri Lanka. Liang’s reiteration of China’s...
Read MoreAt least forty-one miners are dead in Sichuan, in the worst mining accident in almost three years, China Daily reports: Forty-one miners were confirmed dead and five were still trapped in the pit after the explosion, which...
Read MoreAt 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...
Read MoreAt 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...
Read MoreThe Obama administration has made it clear that the Asia Pacific is an area of key interest to US foreign policy, and has stated that a healthy relationship with China is an important policy goal. Hillary Clinton has emphasized...
Read MoreMcClatchy’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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Cross-Talk Comics looks at the last nine months in news and the government response to many...
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