Calls to Punish China Grow
on May 5, 2015
Some in Washington are calling for President Obama to cancel China’s invitation to the largest maritime military exercise in the world.
A Byronic Hero for China’s Supremo
A 14th Century Classic Could Clarify Xi Jinping’s Leadership Style
on May 5, 2015
A little known vignette about Xi Jinping’s fondness for Song Jiang, a fictional hero in the 14th century classic novel The Water Margin, gives a peek into the private thoughts of China’s most powerful man. For someone born with a red spoon in his mouth, his identification with a rebel leader is not out of character, but Song’s flawed personality and self-destructive behavior raise questions about where China is going under Xi’s leadership.
China’s Xi Highlights “Big Picture” in Reform Drive
on May 5, 2015
Authorities must place scientific and technological innovation at the heart of the drive to reform.
Pan Jinlian (Golden Lotus) Humiliated for Being Intimate with a Servant
on May 5, 2015
‘Pan Jinlian (Golden Lotus) Humiliated for Being Intimate with a Servant,’ illustration from ‘Jin Ping Mei,’ or ‘The Plum in the Golden Vase,’ seventeenth century.
HRIC Law Note: Draft Law on Foreign NGOs Undermines Chinese Civil Society and China’s International Engagement
on May 5, 2015
China’s ‘Migrant Miracle’ Nears an End as Cheap Labor Dwindles
on May 4, 2015
China’s working-age population peaks at 72% and will start to fall even more rapidly than 1990s Japan.
The Furor and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
A Sinica Podcast
on May 4, 2015
A total of 57 countries have now joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s newly-launched competitor to the Asian Development Bank (AIIB) that has sparked a flurry of objections from the United States, even culminating in a failed diplomatic campaign by the superpower to lobby allies including the United Kingdom and Australia to abandon the organization, whose stated mission is funding infrastructure projects in underdeveloped parts of Asia.
China Becomes Top Source of U.S. Immigrants
on May 4, 2015
China sent 147,000 immigrants to the U.S. in 2013. India sent 129,000 and Mexico 125,000, a Census Bureau study showed.
Buffett Bullish on China
on May 4, 2015
China Focus: Cross-Strait Economic Forum Held in Shanghai
on May 4, 2015
The forum could invite a wider spectrum of people to cover major issues of cross-Strait development.