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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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12.12.14Young, Idealistic, and Caught Up in a Wave of Detentions
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Well educated and deeply committed to helping their fellow Chinese, Liu Jianshu and Zhao Sile are the kind of idealistic young people who pepper the story of China’s transformation over the past century as it searches for a modern identity.
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12.09.14Warm West Coast Reception for China’s Web Czar (Chillier in Washington)
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Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, pointed to the book, “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China” last week while giving a tour of the company’s office to Lu Wei, the de facto head of Internet policy in China.
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12.01.14Teachers’ Strikes Spread Across Northeast China
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Teachers are asking for raises and for the government to end a requirement that teachers make payments to a pension plan as part of an experimental policy. China National Radio reported that one teacher was making less than $400 a month after...
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12.01.14Leader Asserts China’s Growing Importance on Global Stage
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Sounding confident after a burst of high-profile diplomacy, President Xi Jinping told Communist Party officials in a major address here over the weekend that China would be nice to its neighbors in Asia but that he would run an active foreign policy...
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12.01.14Gregarious and Direct: China’s Web Doorkeeper
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When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full of tech industry executives, American officials and web luminaries.
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11.26.14Despite Persecution, Guardian of Lake Tai Spotlights China’s Polluters
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ZHOUTIE, China — By autumn, the stench of Lake Tai and the freakish green glow of its waters usually fade with the ebbing of the summer heat, but this year is different. Standing on a concrete embankment overlooking a fetid, floating array of...
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11.25.147 Students of Jailed Economist Are Put on Trial in Western China
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Seven students of Ilham Tohti, an imprisoned ethnic Uighur professor, went on trial on Tuesday in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang on charges of being members of a separatist group, said Li Fangping, a lawyer for Mr. Tohti.
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11.21.14China Detains an American Who Assists North Koreans
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The aid worker, Peter Hahn, who is 73 and escaped from the North many years ago, is suspected of embezzlement and possession of fraudulent receipts, said the lawyer, Zhang Peihong.
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11.21.14In Step to Lower Carbon Emissions, China Will Place a Limit on Coal Use in 2020
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In theory, coal consumption might increase beyond 2020, but some researchers say economic trends show the rate of growth in coal use slowing in coming years and peaking about 2020.
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11.17.14Newspaper Calls on Chinese Academics to Cut the Criticism
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Liaoning Daily, a Communist Party-run newspaper in northeast China, published the article, “Teacher, Please Don’t Talk About China Like That: An Open Letter to Teachers of Philosophy and Social Science,” last week in response to a comment it...
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11.14.14In China, Blunt Talk to Reporters on Access
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Mr. Xi’s comments come as several journalists for The New York Times and other news organizations have been forced to cover the country from outside its borders, after producing articles that were embarrassing for the Chinese leadership.
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11.11.14Obama’s Focus in China Is on Leader, Not Public
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The White House has also changed its approach to the Chinese news media. In 2009, Mr. Obama gave an interview to Southern Weekly, a newspaper based in Guangdong Province that is known for pushing the limits of China’s censorship rules. The...
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11.10.14‘A Map of Betrayal,’ by Ha Jin
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Many years ago, the F.B.I. coined an acronym, MICE, to describe the motivations of the spy. This stands for Money, Ideology, Compromise and Ego. All spies, it is argued, are drawn into espionage by some combination of these factors.
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11.10.14Frosty Meeting at APEC Could Be Start of Thaw Between China and Japan
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The meeting between President Xi Jinping of China and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan lasted only 25 minutes, less than half the time usually given to formal encounters between the leaders of two nations.
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11.10.14China’s ‘New Type’ of Ties Fails to Sway Obama
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Nearly three years ago, Xi Jinping was still China’s vice president and only the heir apparent to the Communist Party leadership. But even during that visit he spoke expansively of forging a “new type of great power relations” with the United States.