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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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09.17.12U.S. Files W.T.O. Case Against China Over Cars
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The United States on Monday filed a broad trade case against China at the World Trade Organization, alleging unfair subsidies for exports of cars and auto parts.
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09.16.12A Chinese Leader Returns Amid Tumult
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The reappearance on Saturday of Xi Jinping, a top Chinese leader who had vanished from public view, removes one question mark facing the Communist Party, but a wave of protests against Japan is a sign that internal power struggles are far...
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09.14.12Off-Script Scramble for Power in a Chinese Leader’s Absence
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With still no sign of China’s designated new leader, Xi Jinping, who has not been seen in public since Sept. 1, many insiders and well-connected analysts say the Chinese political ship is adrift, with factions jockeying to...
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09.11.12Indie Filmmakers Feel Heavy Hand of Beijing
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Independent filmmaking is tough anywhere in the world, but in China, especially, it is not a vocation for the faint of heart. A recent attempt to hold a festival of independent film at a public art gallery in front of 500 people was thrown into...
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09.11.12With Extra Frames, a Chinese Photographer Looks Inward
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(Part 2) Li Zhensheng, a newspaper photographer who was active in the 1960s in northern China, documented the country’s Cultural Revolution, in honest, cinematic images.
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09.10.12China’s Presumptive New Leader Is Mysteriously Absent
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Speculation intensified on Monday over the whereabouts of China’s presumptive new president, Xi Jinping, who has been missing from public view in recent days as the country prepares for a crucial leadership change.
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09.10.12A Panoramic View of China's Cultural Revolution
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Li Zhensheng’s photographs of the Culutural Revolution are perhaps the most complete and nuanced pictorial account of the decade of turmoil ignited by Mao Zedong.Mr. Li was a photojournalist for the local paper in Harbin, capital...
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09.08.12Amid Protest, Hong Kong Retreats on 'National Education' Plan
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Faced with tens of thousands of protesters contending that a Beijing-backed plan for “moral and national education” amounted to brainwashing and political indoctrination, Hong Kong’s chief executive backpedaled somewhat on Saturday and revoked a...
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09.06.12Europe to Investigate Chinese Exports of Solar Panels
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Defying Chinese threats of retaliation against European wines and industrial materials, the European Union is preparing to begin on Thursday morning a broad investigation into whether Chinese companies have been exporting solar panels for less than...
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09.05.12A Great Leap Into the Abyss
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Unlike the horrors of the Soviet gulag or the Holocaust, what happened in China during the Great Leap Forward has received little attention from the larger world, “even though it is one of the worst catastrophes in twentieth-century history,” writes...
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09.04.12Guangzhou Moves to Limit New Cars
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The crackdown by China’s third-largest city is the most restrictive in a series of moves by big Chinese cities that are putting quality-of-life issues ahead of short-term economic growth, something the central government has struggled to do on a...
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09.04.12Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits
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The vast majority of the illegal ivory — experts say as much as 70 percent — is flowing to China, and though the Chinese have coveted ivory for centuries, never before have so many of them been able to afford it. China’s economic boom has created a...
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09.03.12Questioning Kristof on Chinese Education
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Nicholas Kristof last wrote about Chinese schools shortly after the release of some stunning news: on a comprehensive exam testing students in 65 countries, China had come in first – thirty spots ahead of the U.S. in math. Kristof...
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09.03.12China Faces New Scandal Over Crash of a Ferrari
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China’s carefully scripted leadership transition appears to have suffered another glitch: a fatal car crash involving a Ferrari, a privileged son and two women.
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08.29.12Victims’ Sons in Tough Fight for Redress After China Rail Crash
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The crash killed 40 passengers, injured 191 and shook the nation’s confidence in its ambitious high-speed rail system. Mr. Cao, 33, a Chinese-American importer from Colorado, barely survived; he lost a kidney and his spleen, and head injuries have...