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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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04.04.13China’s Massive Water Problem
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This Spring 2013 China is expected to finish the first phase of its gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project, though the project highlights the limits of engineering solutions to problems of basic environmental scarcity.&...
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04.04.13China Convicts And Sentences 20 Accused Of Militant Separatism In Restive Region
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“It’s not clear what is being alleged against these people beyond being members of a clandestine organization,” said Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher based in Hong Kong for Human Rights Watch.
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04.04.13Elite In China Face Austerity Under Xi’s Rule
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Warning that graft and gluttony threaten to bring down the ruling Communists, Mr. Xi has ordered an end to boozy, taxpayer-financed banquets and the bribery that often takes the form of Louis Vuitton bags.
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03.26.13A Highly Public Trip For China’s President, And Its First Lady
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President Xi Jinping, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, is on his March2013 inaugural overseas trip. The trip started in Russia last week, and is now passing through Africa with stops in Tanzania, the Republic of Congo and South Africa...
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03.26.13China’s First Lady Strikes Glamorous Note
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At a time when China’s Foreign Ministry is struggling to improve China’s international image, Peng Liyuan, 50, who has dazzled audiences at home and abroad with her bravura soprano voice, comes as a welcome gift.
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03.26.13As Pollution Worsens In China, Solutions Succumb To Infighting
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As some officials push for tighter restrictions on pollutants, SOEs have been putting profits ahead of health in working to outflank new rules, according to government data and interviews with people involved in policy negotiations.
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03.22.13A Building Boom As Chinese Art Rises In Stature
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As the government and private donors sponsor the growth of museums and art culture in China, they must decide what kind of art to feature and what stories to tell.
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03.21.13Guggenheim Gets Grant To Commission Chinese Art
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A $10 million grant for the Guggenheim to commission works from artists born in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau. The money will also endow a curator at the museum whose entire focus will be contemporary Chinese art.
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03.21.13Does China Have A Foreign Policy?
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A country’s foreign policy should be judged on the basis of its actions as well as its rhetoric. When we conduct a careful examination of Chinese policies and actions, we see that Chinese foreign policy is actually ambivalent, even weak.
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03.15.13China’s New Prime Minister Faces Test In Bolstering Economy
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China’s new prime minister, Li Keqiang, entered the job on Friday inheriting a wobbling economy that could distract his government from its bold vows to clean up pollution and harness expanding towns and cities as an engine for growth.&...
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03.15.13‘White Gold’ In China
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China is a large importer of illegally acquired ivory. This photo set focuses on the tradesmen who make their living off of carving the ivory, some of which have been doing so for generations.
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03.15.13China’s New President Nods To Public Concerns, But Defends Power At Top
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“I think that [Xi] is attracted to the idea of a kind of enlightened dictatorship, or neo-authoritarianism,” says magazine editor Li Weidong. “He rejects fundamental political reform, but he wants a cleaner, more efficient government that...
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03.12.13Thousands Of Dead Pigs Found In River Flowing Into Shanghai
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More than 3,300 dead pigs have been found in a major river that flows through Shanghai, igniting fears among city residents of contaminated tap water, according to official reports in March 2013.
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03.12.13Two Cabinet Agencies Are Cut In Restructuring By China
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The Health Ministry will merge with the National Population and Family Planning Commission, while other ministries and agencies, like the Chinese F.D.A., are being restructured or given more power.
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03.08.13The Brutality Cascade
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As China's economic and defense tactics appear to become more and more successful, David Brooks expects other countries' policies will start to resemble them, whether or not they run counter to our principles.