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01.05.16China's Markets—A Sharp Reminder on Reform
Australian Financial Review
The old command model has reached its limits: if China wants things to stay the same, it will have to change.
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01.04.16After Mysterious Disappearance, Hong Kong Publisher Claims He Is In China ‘Cooperating with Authorities’
Washington Post
Lee Bo specializes in books critical of the Communist Party.
Conversation
12.23.15
China in 2016
What should China watchers be watching most closely in China in 2016? What developments would be the most meaningful? What predictions can be made sensibly?
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12.17.15Will China’s Censorship Spread?
Wall Street Journal
Since last year, China has been promoting its notion of ‘Internet sovereignty’ for global Internet governance.
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12.14.15Reports: China Tycoon Appears at Event After Disappearance
Associated Press
The chairman of the Chinese conglomerate said he was assisting an official investigation after he disappeared for a day last week.
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12.14.15The Hard Reality Behind China’s Soft Power
Time
Even as China burnishes its image overseas, the Communist Party conducts brutal suppression of civil liberties at home.
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12.11.15China’s Database of ‘Living Buddhas’ Is the Latest Attempt to Control Tibetan Affairs
Time
The Chinese government’s self-declared right to choose living Buddhas extends to the Dalai Lama.
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12.11.15A Wordless Elegy for China’s War Dead
New York Times
Mr. Wang explained why he wanted to write a requiem about a war that ended 70 years ago.
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12.11.15China Disappearances Highlight Ruling Party Detention System
Bloomberg
Caixin magazine reported that Guo Guangchang, the billionaire chairman of Fosun International Ltd. couldn’t be contacted.
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12.11.15Polluted Skies Heighten Challenge for Chinese Government
New York Times
Red has been considered the color of prosperity and good fortune in China for centuries, and it is also the color of the Communist Party.
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12.10.15Mission Improbable—Jack Ma, China’s Biggest E-Commerce Tycoon, Wants To Be a Media Mogul Too
Economist
Jack Ma, Alibaba’s billionaire boss, wants to be a global media mogul.
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12.09.15China Denounces Dalai Lama's 'Sympathy' for Islamic State
Reuters
"By saying, 'listen, understand and respect' them, it exposes, in his very bones, his sympathy or endorsement for IS."
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12.09.15China’s Plan to Merge Sprawling Firms Risks Curbing Competition
Wall Street Journal
Combining some state-owned companies could tighten Beijing’s grip over key parts of the economy.
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12.09.15China Web Tsar Admits Censorship Troubles
Financial Times
“We have indeed called for reinforcements over prominent online problems, this is the truth.”
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12.07.15Xi Jinping 'Resigns', According To Typo In Chinese State Media Report
Guardian
Four Chinese journalists have been suspended after inadvertently – and incorrectly – announcing the resignation of president.
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12.04.15Notes on the China I’m Leaving Behind
New York Times
I GOT together at a restaurant the other night with some Chinese and expatriate friends.
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12.04.15On China’s Constitution Day, Book on Constitutionalism Largely Disappears
New York Times
China held its second-ever National Constitution Day on Friday.
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12.04.15China Has An Awful Safety Record — And Wants To Run 110 Nuclear Reactors By 2030
Washington Post
The country will have 110 working nuclear reactors by 2030.
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12.04.15How China’s Anti-Corruption Drive Is Hurting Growth
CNBC
Chinese authorities' anti-corruption campaign has knocked between 1 percent and 1.5 percent off the country's gross domestic product (GDP).
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12.03.15You Can't Understand China Unless You Know How the Communist Party Thinks
Huffington Post
The CPC came into being in 1921, almost a century ago.
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12.01.15Can Beijing Sell Silk Road as a Marshall Plan Against Terror?
Wall Street Journal
China needs West’s buy-in on stabilizing effects of its Silk Road project.
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12.01.15Putting China’s Coal Consumption Into Context
Brookings Institution
Few issues are more likely to provoke interest about China.
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11.25.15Q. and A.: Christina Lin on China’s Antiterrorism Efforts
New York Times
Chinese leaders have long been wary of joining global efforts against terrorism.
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11.24.15Ever Wonder How China Got Back Into International Diplomacy After the Cultural Revolution?
Diplomat
China’s successful entry into the international scene after the Cultural Revolution bears lessons for other pariah states.
The NYRB China Archive
11.24.15
Xi’s China: The Illusion of Change
from New York Review of Books
Xi Jinping is often described as China’s most powerful leader in decades, perhaps even since Mao. He has been credited—if sometimes grudgingly—with pursuing a vigorous foreign policy, economic reforms, and a historic crackdown on corruption.But as...
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11.23.15China Cuts Mobile Service of Xinjiang Residents Evading Internet Filters
New York Times
The Chinese government is shutting down the mobile service of residents in Xinjiang.
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11.23.15China Shuts Down Service For Some Phones With Foreign Messaging Apps
Verge
As mobile users try to evade censorship in China through software, the government appears to be trying a new technique to head off such attempts.
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11.23.15China's Own 'Double Standard' on Terrorism
Diplomat
China continues to lump terrorist groups and peaceful activists together — and to censor media coverage of both.
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11.23.15Q. and A.: Jindong Cai on ‘Beethoven in China’
New York Times
Jindong Cai, 59, is an orchestra conductor and a professor at Stanford University.
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11.20.15Yiyi Lu: Rebuilding the Communist Party
WSJ: China Real Time Report
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s effort to clean up politics in the country is generally known as an “anticorruption campaign.”
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11.20.15Will China Get Involved in the Fight Against ISIS?
CNN
Non-intervention has been a cornerstone of Chinese foreign policy for five decades.
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11.20.15China Acknowledges Killing 28, Accusing Them of Role in Mine Attack
New York Times
The Chinese authorities had killed 28 people suspected of taking part in an attack on a coal mine in the country’s turbulent western frontier.
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11.19.15Dream of The Bed Chamber
Economist
It is not just China’s economy that has loosened up since 1979. The country is in the midst of a sexual revolution.
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11.19.15China Insists to U.N. That It’s Combating Torture
New York Times
Senior Chinese officials dismissed allegations of the widespread use of torture.
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11.19.15China’s College Counselors Told to Join the Party — the Communist Party
Time
China’s Education Ministry has deemed universities an “ideological frontline”.
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11.19.15Islamic State Claim of Hostage Killing Complicates China’s Terror Debate
Washington Post
China vowed "justice" for a Chinese national kidnapped and apparently slain by the Islamic State.
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11.18.15Chinese security forces kill 17 in Xinjiang: Radio Free Asia
Reuters
China has appealed for the international community to provide more help in its campaign against Xinjiang militants following the attacks in Paris.
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11.18.15Thailand Deports 2 Dissidents to China, Rights Groups Say
New York Times
The groups denounced the act, by the Thai authorities, as a betrayal of the two men’s right to flee feared political persecution and torture.
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11.18.15China Faces Sharp Questioning by U.N. Panel on Torture
New York Times
“China has made further progress in its legal development and human rights protection.”
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11.17.15China Bends Vow, Using Prisoners’ Organs for Transplants
New York Times
A senior Chinese health official said last year that China would stop using prisoners’ organs for transplants as of Jan. 1, 2015.
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11.16.15China to Tighten Limit on Foreign TV and Video Imports
Wall Street Journal
Tighter licensing could further reduce amount of foreign content streamed in China.
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11.16.15China Is Using the Paris Attacks to Tout Its Anti-Terror Efforts at Home
Quartz
Condolence and support from heads of state across the globe poured in to France after Friday’s terror attacks in Paris.
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11.12.15Nancy Pelosi Made Rare Visit to Tibet, China Says
New York Times
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, visited Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
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11.12.15Rights Lawyers in China Routinely Face Abuse, Report Says
New York Times
Legal activists and those suspected of crimes in China are routinely abused and mistreated at the hands of law enforcement officials.
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11.11.15Burma’s Election Leaves Former Patron China with Uncomfortable Questions
Washington Post
How might China’s Communist rulers get along with a Burmesse civilian government?
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11.11.15China Corruption Fight Extends to Top Officials in Beijing and Shanghai
New York Times
President Xi Jinping’s sweeping crackdown on corruption has claimed senior officials in China’s two largest cities.
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11.10.15Fears Grow For Missing Hong Kong Publishers Who Were Critical of China
Time
Their disappearance has alarmed the cultural community in a city already fearful of Beijing's growing encroachment.
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11.10.15China Softens Tactics in Global Hunt for Corruption Fugitives
Reuters
China has changed tactics in its global man-hunt for fugitives wanted at home for corruption.
Media
11.09.15
Can the China Model Succeed?
Is this a new model? Is authoritarian capitalism, Leninist capitalism, something that has durability? Have the rules changed about how countries develop? That used to be, remember, that open markets led ineluctably to open societies. How does it...
Viewpoint
11.05.15
The Problem With the China Model
The ideological competition between democracy and authoritarianism was supposed to have died with the Cold War. But it has returned with a vengeance, powered above all by the rise of China. Now comes a book by a respected scholar that purports to...
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11.02.15Q. and A.: Chan Koonchung on Imagining a Non-Communist China
New York Times
We’re in Beijing — no, Beiping — Dec. 10, 1979.
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10.28.15Can Xi Jinping Control China’s Wave of Change?
Washington Post
“Party tightens grip on dissenting voices,” headlined the South China Morning Post on Friday.
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10.27.15Psychedelic Video Sings Praises of China's Five Year-Plan
Agence France-Presse
"If you wanna know what China's gonna do, best pay attention to the shisanwu."
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10.26.15Leaving China? Your books, Maps and DVDs May Be Confiscated
Los Angeles Times
An odd thing happened when movers came to box up Ruth Kirchner's furnishings as she was preparing to return to Berlin after a decade in China.
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10.22.15China Golf: Communist Party Bans Club Membership
BBC
Extravagant eating and drinking, and abuse of power, are also formally banned.
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10.22.15Human Rights: What Is China Accused of?
BBC
China's human rights record has been criticised for years.
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10.22.15China Plans 2020 Deadline for Dismantling Capital Controls
Bloomberg
Top officials in the Communist Party will discuss pledging to “make the yuan convertible under the capital account".
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10.22.15
The Bloodthirsty Deng We Didn’t Know
from New York Review of Books
“Deng was…a bloody dictator who, along with Mao, was responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people, thanks to the terrible social reforms and unprecedented famine of 1958–1962.” This is the conclusion of Alexander Pantsov and Steven...