Students in China Were Made to Take Exams Outdoors in Toxic Smog
on December 22, 2016
Widely circulated photos of the students, sitting at desks while blanketed in choking pollution, starkly dramatize the Chinese "airpocalypse"
China Details Operating Areas for Foreign NGOs Under New Law
on December 22, 2016
How Tibet Is Being Crushed—While the Dalai Lama Survives
on December 22, 2016
If you read every page of Tsering Woeser’s latest book and skip the first and last chapters of Tsering Topgyal’s, the ultimate message about the situation in Tibet is often the same.
Marc Lanteigne
on December 21, 2016
Marc Lanteigne is a Senior Researcher (East Asia) at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo. His research interests include China and East Asia foreign policy, China’s engagement and cooperation with regional and international organisations, East Asia-Arctic diplomacy, Sino-European relations, and non-traditional security in Asia. He is the author of China and International Institutions: Alternate Paths to Global Power (Routledge, 2005) and Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction (third edition, Routledge, 2015) and the co-editor of The Chinese Party-State in the 21st Century: Adaptation and the Reinvention of Legitimacy and China’s Evolving Approach to Peacekeeping, as well as numerous chapters and articles on Chinese politics and international relations.
Øystein Tunsjø
on December 21, 2016
Øystein Tunsjø is a Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He is the author of Security and Profits in China’s Energy Policy (Columbia University Press, 2013) and US Taiwan Policy: Constructing the Triangle (Routledge, 2008). Tunsjø is a co-editor with Robert S. Ross and Peter Dutton of Twenty-First Century Seapower: Cooperation and Conflict at Sea (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor with Robert Ross and Zhang Tuosheng of US-China-EU Relations: Managing the New World Order (Routledge, 2010). He is also co-editor with Robert S. Ross of Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2017). Tunsjø has published articles in journals such as Survival, International Relations, Cooperation and Conflict, and World Economy and Politics (in Chinese). Tunsjø holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and he was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, during spring term of 2010.
Did Oslo Kowtow to Beijing?
A ChinaFile Conversation
on December 21, 2016
In 2010, the Oslo-appointed Nobel Peace Prize committee bestowed the honor on imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Furious with the selection of Liu, a human rights advocate, who is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence on spurious charges of “inciting subversion of state power,” Beijing let the relationship deteriorate and diplomatic relations mostly froze. Six years later, Oslo and Beijing announced on Monday that they would again normalize relations. Should Oslo have continued to defy Beijing? Or is China now such a major player globally that nations must maintain a relationship with Beijing, even when it comes with a high cost?
Smog Refugees Flee Chinese Cities as ‘Airpocalypse’ Blights Half a Billion
on December 21, 2016
Thousands head to pollution-free regions as haze descends on the country’s northern industrial heartland
Bring Back Jobs from China? In Shenzhen, They Aren’t That Worried
on December 21, 2016
As Trump presses companies on U.S. manufacturing, the city that became the globalization poster child has learned to adapt to economic shifts
Could Jane Zhang Become China’s First Global Pop Star?
on December 21, 2016
Zhang's latest single breaks the mould of China's pop industry and could help her become its first global superstar
Step Inside China’s Hellish, Illicit Steel Factories
on December 21, 2016
Kevin Frayer's photographs of illegal Chinese steel factories look like postcards from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution