Two New Reports Slam Hong Kong Media Self-Censorship
on February 13, 2014
Hong Kong fell to 61st in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index, behind Burkina Faso, Moldova and Haiti.
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on February 13, 2014
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Microsoft Denies Global Censorship of China-Related Searches
on February 12, 2014
This Woman is the Voice of Tibet for China and the World
on February 12, 2014
Tsering Woeser is a prolific blogger who writes in Chinese, the language she grew up with in school in Tibetan towns in southwestern Sichuan province. This makes Woeser's voice for the rights of Tibetans unique.
An Offer They Can’t Refuse
on February 12, 2014
Will China win its 65-year war with Taiwan—without firing a shot?
China Trade Growth Defies Signs of Slowdown
on February 12, 2014
The surprise jump in China's January Export-Import growth defies signs that the world’s second-largest economy is slowing but fuels fears of a recurrence of fake shipments.
China Unlikely to Reduce Coal Use in the Next Decade
Demand is Strong and Developing Alternative Energy a Struggle
on February 12, 2014
Coal will account for no less than sixty percent of China’s total energy use in the next decade, said Zheng Xinye, an energy economist at Renmin University. Currently, coal accounts for seventy percent of China’s total energy consumption. The Chinese leadership vowed to reduce the number to less than sixty-five percent in 2014.
U.S. Targets Buyers of China-Bound Luxury Cars
on February 12, 2014
A Florida businessman buys new cars that typically retail for $55,000 to $75,000 in the United States and resells them in China for as much as three times those prices.
Blankfein Says China’s Expansion to Have ‘Huge Consequences’
on February 12, 2014
Goldman Sachs Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein said: “We’d be making a mistake if we overfunded [China], put [in] too many people, too much investment.”
Enze Han
on February 12, 2014
Enze Han is a Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies (SOAS), University of London. His research interests include ethnic politics in China and China's relations with Southeast Asia. His recent publications include Contestation and Adapation: The Politics of National Identity in China (Oxford University Press, 2013), and his articles have been published in The Journal of Contemporary China, The China Quarterly, Nationalities Papers, Security Studies, and Cambridge Review of International Affairs, among others. Han was a postdoctoral fellow in the China and the World Program, Princeton University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from George Washington University.