Stanley Lubman of U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law writes about the state of legal reform in China for the Wall Street Journal’s new China Real Time Report blog: Ambiguities in policy toward law are clear: The...
Read MoreIn Der Spiegel, John Lee writes about why a lack of political reform in China can no longer be blamed on the chaos of the Mao years: First things first: Why does the building of institutions that might lead to democracy matter...
Read MoreTo celebrate the closeness of Sino-Pakistani political, economic and cultural relations, Pakistan will issue a 10-rupee coin to commemorate China’s 60th anniversary: The decision comes within days after Pakistan began...
Read MoreOn the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples’ Republic of China, Dinah Gardner of Al Jazeera writes about prognostications of what China would be like if there was no Mao Zedong. Statements include: Ai Weiwei...
Read MoreIn Foreign Policy, John Lee looks at why the “reform period” in China has lasted so long with no end in sight: China’s leaders since Deng have been telling the world that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will...
Read MoreSigns of official corruption are often seen first in cadres’ private lives. The Outlook Weekly (《瞭望》) reports [CN] on government supervision, the role of civil society in monitoring corruption, and possible take-away...
Read MoreKerry Brown is an associate fellow on the Asia programme, Chatham House. He is the author of Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century (2007), The Rise of the Dragon: Inward and Outward Investment in China in the Reform Period...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports that Xu Zhiyong has been formally charged with tax evasion: Mr. Xu, 36, is a founder of the Open Constitution Initiative, known in Chinese as Gongmeng, a nonprofit group that often has taken on...
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor writes about the recent crackdown on Gongmeng and Yirenping: Taken together, the raids appear part of a tightening of controls on critical voices in the run-up to Oct. 1, the 60th anniversary of the...
Read MoreGlobal Times reports from a Primi ethnic minority village in remote Yunnan Province: Zhang Hong was crushed upon hearing the 70 Primi ethnic minority families living in the poor, remote virgin forest hamlet of Yushichang finally...
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