Chinese Crackdown Separates Pakistani Husbands from Uighur Wives
on March 15, 2018
“Where is Mama?” screams Ahmed’s 10-year-old daughter in a WeChat message he can hardly bear to replay.
Hong Kong’s Judges Voice Fears over China Influence in Judiciary
on March 15, 2018
As Hong Kong’s judges and senior lawyers paraded in ceremonial wigs and gowns on Jan 8 to mark the start of the legal year, anxieties over China’s growing reach into the city’s vaunted legal system swirled with the wintry winds.
Hard-Charging Chinese Energy Tycoon Falls from Xi Government’s Graces
on March 15, 2018
A mysterious Chinese buyer surprised the financial world last year when it swooped in to buy a $9 billion chunk of Russia’s state oil company.
China Tech Titan Alibaba Plans Stock-Market Homecoming
on March 15, 2018
Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is working on a plan to list on a stock exchange in its home market, China, according to people familiar with the matter, more than three years after its blockbuster initial public offering in New York.
China, Russia Welcome Korean Peace Efforts with Diplomacy in Overdrive
on March 15, 2018
China’s President Xi Jinping offered encouragement for South Korea’s initiative to nurture peaceful engagement with North Korea, and Russia also expressed support, the South Korean official leading diplomatic efforts said on Thursday.
China-Europe Association for Civil Rights 2017 Civil Society Analysis
on March 15, 2018
The China-Europe Association for Civil Rights (CEACR) has published an English-language version of its 2017 Annual Report, which takes a careful look at both domestic and international NGOs working in mainland China under the Charity and Foreign NGO Laws. The report draws out three key points: first, that the types of challenges faced by foreign NGOs have bifurcated as certain groups have been able to register and others have not; second, that clarification and implementation of the Charity Law is an ongoing process, with the final effects on the sector still as yet undetermined; and third, that these laws codify the “strict management” of civil society organizations in China.
Policy Analysis on China’s Civil Society Organizations
2017 Annual Report
on March 15, 2018
Three policies emerged around 2017 that have a significant impact on the development of civil society organizations: the Law on Administration of Activities of Overseas [Foreign] Nongovernmental Organizations in the Mainland of China, effective the first week of the year; the Charity Law, effective September 2016; and the Opinion on the Reform of the Social Organization Management System and Promotion of the Healthy and Orderly Development of Social Organizations, jointly issued by the General Office of the C.C.P. Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council in August 2016. This report offers description and analysis of the effect these three policies have each had on China’s 700,000 civil society organizations and on the unknown number of civil organizations that are not registered with any office of civil affairs.
Who Really Haunts Xi Jinping, Mao or Gorbachev?
on March 15, 2018
Last week, the Chinese National People’s Congress removed Presidential and Vice-Presidential term limits, effectively allowing current President (and Chinese Communist Party General Secretary) Xi Jinping to stay in power beyond the two terms that had been the norm in recent decades. How to understand this sudden change, surprising in its particular shape though not exactly at odds with broader trends in recent years? One way is to look at the process of how the proposal to abolish these term limits worked its way through the system. Who championed it, who opposed it (or, if no one dared oppose it, who stayed silent)? What were the internal arguments for and against the proposal?
Facebook, Amazon Handicapped as They Follow China Playbook
on March 14, 2018
Amazon and Facebook grabbed headlines with groundbreaking moves last week: segueing into bank accounts and music, respectively. Groundbreaking, that is, for the west—such moves are business as normal in China.
China Levies Record $870 Million Fine for Stock Manipulation
on March 14, 2018
China slapped a logistics company with fines totaling 5.5 billion yuan ($870 million) for manipulating the stock market, the biggest ever punishment for such an infringement.