China Scrambles to Adjust to Baby Boomlet
on May 29, 2014
China's health officials are taking steps to accommodate two million more births annually after a landmark decision last year to relax population controls.
Missing Plane Believed to Be Beyond Search Area
on May 29, 2014
The search area in the Indian Ocean that recovery teams have been scouring for more than a month is probably not the final resting place of a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner.
Westerly Gorayeb
on May 29, 2014
Westerly Gorayeb is an Intern with Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, where she maintains the ChinaFile archives and assists with event programming. She is currently a junior at Bowdoin College majoring in Asian Studies and Government. She has studied abroad in China twice, and plans to return to China this fall for a semester abroad.
India’s Modi and China’s Xi: Frenemies, or Just Plain Enemies?
on May 29, 2014
With two nationalists in power, relations between the world’s two most populous nations could turn even frostier.
China’s Two Problems with the Uyghurs
on May 28, 2014
Beijing has two problems with the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking, Central Asian people from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. One problem is terrorism; the other problem is civil rights.
China is Stealing a Strategic March on the US
on May 28, 2014
Bit by bit Beijing is creating new facts, and with each incident, it throws down the gauntlet.
China Cleans Up the Internet by Squelching Dissent
on May 28, 2014
A new government campaign aims to crack down on spreading “rumors” and harmful information through chat groups on instant messaging services such as Tencent’s WeChat.
‘Staying’—An Excerpt from ‘People’s Republic of Amnesia’
Tiananmen Revisited
on May 28, 2014
Zhang Ming has become used to his appearance startling small children. Skeletally thin, with cheeks sunk deep into his face, he walked gingerly across the cream-colored hotel lobby as if his limbs were made of glass. On his forehead were two large, perfectly circular purple-red bruises, one above each eye. “Kids often think I have four eyes,” he said with a puckish grin. Indeed, the unexpected visual symmetry of the garish circles was so discombobulating that several times during our long conversations, I found myself addressing his purple forehead orbs.
China Sentences 55 in Xinjiang Mass Trial
on May 28, 2014
The public sentencing, reminiscent of China's revolutionary era rallies, attracted a crowd of 7,000 at a sports stadium in Yining city in the northern prefecture of Yili.
Why Scrapping 6 Million Cars is Not Going to End China’s Pollution Problem
on May 28, 2014
While studies have shown some success from these measures, the fact that this bigger ban is being proposed is perhaps a sign it wasn't enough.