China Pushes Cleanup of Banks
on August 17, 2014
Top four lenders are raising capital and 'Bad Banks' are being created to absorb soured loans.
Japan’s Abe Avoids Yasukuni Shrine
on August 16, 2014
Japanese prime minister skips visit to controversial shrine to war dead in hopes of meeting with China’s Presidnet Xi Jinping.
In China’s Shadow, U.S. Courts Old Foe Vietnam
on August 16, 2014
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, courted Vietnam over the past several days.
Vietnam and China—Through a Border Darkly
on August 16, 2014
Relations between two Communist neighbors are at their lowest point in decades.
Finding the ‘Essence’ of China
The Sinica Podcast
on August 15, 2014
This week, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are delighted to host Jeremiah Jenne, Director at the Hutong, Beijing’s premier cultural exchange center, for a conversation that picks apart China’s obsession with “Chinese characteristics” and asks whether this is empty rhetoric, or something that actually matters. In the process, we wade back to Imperial efforts to reconcile the “essence” of China with “practical” Western technologies and ideas.
Making It in China and the U.S.
A Q&A on the Green Electronics Maker Challenge with Founder Emily Parker
on August 14, 2014
Emily Parker is a creator of Green Electronics: A U.S.-China Maker Challenge. The Green Electronics Challenge was an unprecedented collaboration between the New America Foundation, Arizona State University, Slate Magazine, China’s Tsinghua University, and hackerspaces in the U.S. and China.
Dan Washburn and Jeremy Schaap on 'The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream'
on August 14, 2014
China Dissident Lawyer Gao Zhisheng ‘Destroyed by Jail’
on August 14, 2014
Leading Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng — released the first week of August 2014 — has been “utterly destroyed” after three years in jail, says his international lawyer, Jared Gensher.
My Chinese Education
on August 14, 2014
One Tibetan recounts how Beijing’s education system suffocates minority culture serving to unify the country under the rule of the dominant Han ethnic group.
Pope Francis Reaches Out to China As He Begins Asia Trip
on August 14, 2014
Pope Francis extended his best wishes to Xi and the Chinese people on his way to South Korea through Chinese airspace, the first time China allowed that since 1989.