Analysis from China Development Brief’s July Conference

on September 14, 2017

China Development Brief has begun posting English-language versions of the presentations and analysis offered at the workshop it hosted in July 2017. Included is a presentation from Jia Xijin, of Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management, looking at the first six months of Foreign NGO Law implementation, and a presentation from Zhang Lingxiao of Jingshi Law Firm, who offered answers to common questions about issues such as fundraising and registration applications.

Rob Precht

on September 14, 2017

Rob Precht is President of Justice Labs, a career mentoring website for public interest lawyers, and he is the former China Country Director of PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law. Previously, he was an Assistant Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and a federal public defender in Manhattan. He is the author of Defending Mohammad: Justice on Trial (Cornell University Press, 2003) and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, South China Morning Post, and other publications.

Forestry Administration Formulates Foreign NGO Guidelines; Ningxia Public Security Bureau Educates Local Police on Foreign NGO Law; Shanghai Public Security Bureau Meets with Canadian Consulate

Ministry of Public Security WeChat Posts—September 6-12, 2017

on September 14, 2017

The State Forestry Administration has formulated “Measures for State Forestry Administration Departments and Subordinate Units Managing Cooperation and Exchange with Foreign NGOs,” meant to regulate and guide offices within the State Forestry Administration as well as its subordinate provincial-level units in their work with foreign NGOs. The Measures include guiding principles behind expanding cooperation with foreign NGOs, division of responsibility, and scope of work, as well as details about provincial-level forestry departments’ reporting responsibilities to the State Forestry Administration if they are serving as Professional Supervisory Units to foreign NGOs. The Measures require that cooperation with foreign NGOs should conform with relevant national targets and plans and the Forestry Administration’s own developmental needs.

China's New Campaign to Instill Official Historical Narrative in Xinjiang

By Nectar Gan on September 14, 2017

Yu Zhengsheng, the party’s fourth-ranking official who is in charge of religion and ethnic minorities, presided at a high-level meeting in Beijing this week to address “several historical issues” regarding the restive region, Xinhua reported.

History, Politics, Religion
Xinjiang, Government Policy, State Propaganda, Party Officials

VW, China Partners to Recall 4.86 Million Vehicles over Takata Airbags

By Reuters Staff on September 14, 2017

Official Chinese estimates show over 20 million cars in China had air bags made by Takata, which have been linked to at least 16 deaths and 180 injuries globally. The air bags have the potential to explode with too much force and spray shrapnel.

Business, Economy, Technology, Urban Life
Automobile Industry, Automobiles, Takata Airbags, Transportation Safety, Product Safety

Chinese Landscapes at the Met: If Those Mountains Could Talk

By Holland Cotter on September 14, 2017

“Streams and Mountains Without End: Landscape Traditions of China,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features a collection reinstallation spiced with a few loans. But the Met’s China holdings are so broad and deep that some of the pictures here are resurfacing for the first time in almost a decade; one is finally making its debut a century after it was acquired.

Arts, History
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chinese Arts, Chinese Paintings, Caligraphy

Tim Maurer

on September 13, 2017

Tim Maurer is the Co-Director of the Cyber Policy Initiative and a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His work focuses on cyberspace and international affairs, namely cybersecurity, human rights online, and Internet governance, currently with a specific focus on cybersecurity and financial stability.

Maurer is a member of several U.S. track-1.5 cyber dialogues and the research advisory group of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. Previously, he was part of the Freedom Online Coalition’s working group “An Internet Free and Secure” and the Research Advisory Network of the Global Commission on Internet Governance. He co-chaired the Advisory Board of the Global Conference on CyberSpace in The Hague and supported the OSCE’s cyber confidence-building efforts by developing the Global Cyber Definitions Database for the chair of the OSCE.

Prior to joining Carnegie, Maurer was the Director of the Global Cybersecurity Norms and Resilience Project at New America and head of research of New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. He also spent several years focusing on humanitarian assistance and the coordination of the U.N. system gaining experience with the United Nations in Rwanda, Geneva, and New York.