How to Make China More Honest

By Derek Scissors on September 4, 2013

Official Chinese economic statistics, from unemployment to arable land, are controlled by the Communist Party and therefore cannot be trusted. The prevailing American and global view of China as a rising, if presently troubled, economic superpower is based on this unreliable data. Evaluation of selected economic, financial, and sociopolitical indicators shows them to be inconsistent and most likely inaccurate, so that American and global decision making is badly informed. A sustained effort to compile more accurate data on China would clarify China’s global economic role and improve the basis for U.S. policy-making and limit taxpayer exposure.

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Established in 1999, the Aibai Culture & Education Center is a non-profit organization based in China. Its mission is to promote equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities through three key strategies: strengthening community alliance; public advocacy; and medical services and care to people living with HIV. Currently, Aibai has branches in Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai and has volunteers throughout China and overseas.

China Investigating More Top PetroChina Executives Over Corruption

By Chen Aizhu and Charlie Zhu on September 3, 2013

A high-level government probe into corruption at China's leading oil and gas firm widened on Tuesday, with three additional senior officials at the state-run giant being investigated over alleged wrongdoing, which is C.C.P. shorthand for graft.

 

Business, Politics
Anti-Corruption, China National Petroleum Corporation

30-Year Throwback: What Fodor’s Was Saying About China Three Decades Ago

By Paul Chung on September 3, 2013

When asked to give examples of China's transformation over the last three decades, you may first be tempted to cite year-to-year G.D.P. growth figures. Yet in 2013, we may also find some of these answers tucked inside a Fodor's People's Republic of China guidebook from 1984.

 

 

History, Media, Society
Travel

China’s “Seven Base Lines” for a Clean Internet

By David Bandurski on September 3, 2013

Run down the list of the “Seven Base Lines” and it is painfully obvious that this is part of a new government initiative to assert stronger control over online speech. This is yet another internet tightening in China ostensibly carried out to combat online “rumors.”

 

Law, Media, Society
Internet Censorship, China Internet Conference, Seven Base Lines