Obama Calls on Beijing to Stop Construction in South China Sea
on November 18, 2015
President Obama addressed the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Manila, where he discussed China, trade and climate change.
ISIS Kills Norwegian And Chinese Hostages
on November 18, 2015
Who Are Islamic State Victims Fan Jinghui And Ole Johan Grimsgaard?
How Can China’s Neighbors Make Progress at APEC?
A ChinaFile Conversation
on November 18, 2015
Ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit next week, we asked a group of experts from China’s neighboring countries what they thought the main thrust of discussion in Manila should be. If host, the Philippines, under pressure from China, has signaled the impossibility of addressing tensions in the region’s main channel of international economic activity, the South China Sea, what can APEC participants talk about? If APEC member states can’t talk about maritime trade security, what should they be discussing?
India-China Talks Fail To Make Progress on Border Dispute
on November 18, 2015
"This is the highest level defense delegation to visit India in the recent years. The visit signifies the enhanced defense exchanges between India and China."
Thailand Deports 2 Dissidents to China, Rights Groups Say
on November 18, 2015
The groups denounced the act, by the Thai authorities, as a betrayal of the two men’s right to flee feared political persecution and torture.
China Faces Sharp Questioning by U.N. Panel on Torture
on November 18, 2015
“China has made further progress in its legal development and human rights protection.”
Chinese Students in America: 300,000 and Counting
More Students are Studying in the U.S. than Ever Before
on November 18, 2015
In 1981, when Erhfei Liu entered Brandeis University as an undergraduate, he was only the second student from mainland China in the school’s history. “I was a rare animal from Red China,” Liu said in a September 1 interview with Foreign Policy, “an alien from the moon.”
What Xi and Ma Really Said
on November 17, 2015
The Chinese government employs hundreds of thousands of people at all administrative levels, central to local, to prescribe and monitor how news stories are presented to the public. These people tell editors of newspapers and web pages not only what stories to run, but also what words and phrases to use, how to write headlines, and what page a story should appear on.
China Box Office: 'Spectre' Has the Competition Shaken and Stirred
on November 17, 2015
It took a while, but James Bond finally won over Chinese audiences as Spectre, the 24th film in the franchise.