Sara Segal-Williams is ChinaFile’s Senior Editor for Copy. She holds a B.A. from Bard College, where she concentrated in Chinese History, and an M.A. in International Relations from Central European University. She has studied Mandarin Chinese at Qingdao University and Yunnan University.
Samuel Kleiner is a student at Yale Law School. He received a D.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has written on international and legal affairs in publications including Slate, The New Republic, and The Los Angeles Times.
Beijing may be whittling back its widely reviled state secrets laws—but given their opacity, it’s hard to say for sure. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signed a regulation, announced February 2, that would prohibit Chinese government organs from “using the law to classify those matters which should be made public,” according to state-run Xinhua news service.
In 1868 Anson Burlingame became not only America’s first minister to China to reside in Beijing, but also China’s first ambassador to the world.
On any list of banking accidents waiting to happen, China is assured a place at the very top. But could a crash there take the entire global economy down with it?
The United States has growing concerns that China's maritime claims in the disputed South China Sea are an effort to control oceans in the Asia-Pacific region, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.
The return of collective religious traditions is part of Chinese people's search for meaning and stability.
A Xinhua writer fiercely responds to Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III’s comparison of China to Nazy Germany.
People like to hear voices critical of the government, so social media companies can’t silence them entirely.
The F.B.I. cites agricultural technology theft as an emerging international trend, especially in light of a case in which Chinese agents were accused of trying to steal valuable American corn seeds.
