Australia Is Debating Chinese Influence. Should the U.S. Do the Same?

A ChinaFile Conversation

By Bruce Jacobs, Kerry Brown & more on June 9, 2017

“The Chinese Communist Party is waging a covert campaign of influence in Australia,” went the claim in the newspaper The Age, in a series of articles exploring China’s hard and soft power “Down Under.” The articles set off a domestic debate about just how wary Australians should be about their largest trading partner. How carefully should Australia manage its ties with China moving forward?

Brochure: “Key Information about Registering a Foreign NGO Representative Office”

on June 9, 2017

The Beijing Public Security Bureau Foreign NGO Management Office provides this brochure in paper form at its offices in Beijing’s Haidian District. The content of the brochure is identical to the information found in numbers 1-6 of the Guide for the Registration of Representative Offices and Submitting Documents for the Record Temporary Activities of Foreign Nongovernmental Organizations.

Granting Money to an Individual under the Foreign NGO Law: A Thought Experiment

By Jessica Batke & Fu Hualing on June 9, 2017

Despite the Foreign NGO Law’s taking effect on January 1 of this year, quite a number of questions regarding the law’s contents remain unanswered. Lawyers, scholars, and foreign NGOs themselves all face uncertainty as they try to understand how specific operational situations do or do not fall under the scope of the law. Beneath these technical concerns, however, lie deeper questions about the global reach of Chinese domestic law.

Bruce Jacobs

on June 9, 2017

Bruce Jacobs is an Emeritus Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His recent books include Local Politics in Rural Taiwan under Dictatorship and Democracy (2008), Democratizing Taiwan (2012), and The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard (2016). He edited the four-volume work Critical Readings on China-Taiwan Relations (2014) and is co-editor and contributor to the forthcoming Changing Taiwanese Identities.

Can China Really Lead the World on Climate?

By Isabel Hilton on June 8, 2017

On Wednesday, the governor of California, Jerry Brown, found himself, not for the first time, with more in common with Chinese President Xi Jinping than with the president of his own nation, Donald Trump. Just days after President Trump announced that the United States would not fulfill its commitments under the Paris Agreement, Governor Brown was widely celebrated in Chinese media for saying the opposite.