New Report on Chinese Civil Society in 2018 from the China-Europe Association for Civil Rights

on July 11, 2018

The China-Europe Association for Civil Rights (CEACR) published a new report on civil society organizations that covers the first quarter of 2018. CEACR writes that the impact of the Foreign NGO Law and the Charity Law has led to the “control and even suppression of CSOs . . . on the concrete, operational level,” noting that some Foreign NGOs’ inability to register has limited funding flows to some small domestic NGOs. The report also discusses the situation for civil society more broadly and judges that “[t]he space for CSO activities will shrink even more this year.”

Patrick Schroeder

on July 11, 2018

Patrick Schroeder is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He previously worked as a Senior International Advisor to the China Association for NGO Cooperation from 2009-2013 in Beijing as part of the GIZ/CIM Sino-German cooperation on climate change. He was involved in the EU-China Environmental Governance Programme (2011-2013) and the EU-China Civil Society Dialogue Programme on Participatory Public Policy (2011-2014).

Video Policy Brief: French and Dutch NGOs and the Foreign NGO Law

By Patrick Schroeder on July 11, 2018

Asia Dialogue recently posted a series of “video policy briefs” looking at implementation of the Foreign NGO Law in China. Each video looks at a different country or aspect of the Law’s implementation. The following is focused on how groups from France and The Netherlands are able to work under the Foreign NGO Law.

Crisis in U.S. Nuclear Talks With Pyongyang Not China’s Doing, Experts Say

By Keith Johnson on July 11, 2018

President Donald Trump has suggested that China might be to blame for an apparent crisis in nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea — arguing that Beijing could be undermining the agreement because of anger over the escalating trade war with the United States.

Economy, Military, Politics
North Korea, Donald Trump, Trade

Ex-Apple Engineer Arrested on His Way to China, Charged with Stealing Company’s Autonomous Car Secrets

By Allyson Chiu on July 11, 2018

For about two years, Xiaolang Zhang was privy to information to which many in the tech world can only dream of having access: the inner workings of Apple’s secretive autonomous car research.

Business, Law, Technology
Apple, Automobiles, Intellectual Property