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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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11.03.14Manual on How to Spot a Spy Circulates in an Increasingly Wary China
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“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Or an American spy. Or a “hostile foreign force.” So says the “China Folk Counterespionage Manual,” a “how to spot a spy” guide circulating on the Internet.
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11.03.14Taiwan Leader Stresses Support for Hong Kong Protests
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“If mainland China can practice democracy in Hong Kong, or if mainland China itself can become more democratic, then we can shorten the psychological distance between people from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait,” President Ma Ying-jeou said.
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10.31.14In Hong Kong Photographer, China Sees Image of Spy
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Dan Garrett, a gnarled, tattooed former Pentagon intelligence analyst, has attracted more stares than usual lately when he prowls the streets here with a camera fitted with a 300-millimeter lens, snapping images of pro-democracy demonstrations,...
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10.31.14Toronto School District Cancels Plans for Confucius Institute
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Canada’s largest school district moved to terminate its agreement with the institute, which would have offered after-school Chinese language and culture classes, over concerns about China’s human rights record and restrictions on academic freedom.
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10.31.14Hong Kong Politician Likens Protesters to African-American Slaves
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“American slaves were liberated in 1861, but did not get voting rights until 107 years later,” she was reported as saying by The Standard, an English-language Hong Kong newspaper. “So why can’t Hong Kong wait for a while?”
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10.29.14Ex-General in China Admits He Took Bribes, Report Says
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“Xu Caihou fully confessed to the facts of his bribetaking crimes,” said the brief Xinhua report. It did not give any details of who gave the bribes or how much Mr. Xu took.
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10.29.14Taking Back Hong Kong’s Future
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Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, less than a year after I was born, the people of this city have muddled through with a political system that leaves power in the hands of the wealthy and the well-connected.
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10.27.14China Began Push Against Hong Kong Elections in ’50s
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Beginning in the 1950s, the colonial governors who ran Hong Kong repeatedly sought to introduce popular elections but abandoned those efforts in the face of pressure by Communist Party leaders in Beijing.
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10.27.14Pro-Democracy Movement’s Vote in Hong Kong Abruptly Called Off
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The referendum boiled down to two simple questions: Did voters endorse demanding that the Hong Kong government press Beijing to make democratic concessions on election rules, and did they agree that the changes should apply to city Legislative...
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10.27.14Using Cash and Pressure, China Builds Its Chip Industry
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Beijing is starting programs to increase investment by the state and to gain expertise from foreign chip companies. Experts say the chip industry is one focus of Chinese espionage efforts.
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10.24.14A Chance to Introduce Social and Environmental Protections
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Instead of opposing its creation, the U.S. should consider joining the bank as a means of guaranteeing that it matches world-class financing strength with world-class environmental practices.
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10.21.14Presumed Guilty in China’s War on Corruption, Targets Suffer Abuses
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One beating left Wang Guanglong, a midlevel official from China’s Fujian Province, partly deaf, according to his later testimony.
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10.20.14What China Means by ‘Rule of Law’
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There’s plenty of evidence that China sees the rule of law in nuanced and complex ways.
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10.12.14Once a Symbol of Power, Farming Now an Economic Drag in China
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Frustrated by how little they earn, the ablest farmers have migrated to cities, hollowing out this rural district in the Chinese heartland.
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10.10.14Getting Real About China
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China’s harsh suppression of political dissent, from Hong Kong to Xinjiang, and its close ties to Russia, Iran and North Korea, have finally laid to rest the dream many Western leaders have had since the 1990s.