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06.18.17‘Islamic State Killings: China’s Censored Social Media Is in Uproar, so What’s Beijing Thinking?
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The deaths of two Chinese prompt widespread calls for retribution. Beijing, seeking favour in the region with its Belt and Road Initiative, remains curiously silent.
Sinica Podcast
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Jane Perlez: Chinese Foreign Relations in a New Age of Uncertainty
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Jane Perlez has been a reporter at The New York Times since 1981. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for coverage of the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has reported on wars, diplomacy, and foreign policy from...
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03.02.17How Trump Could Find Common Ground with China, Thanks to the Islamic State
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Since the election of Donald Trump, the relationship between Washington and Beijing has appeared strained. Despite diplomatic efforts to bridge the gap, China and the United States are at loggerheads over a variety of issues, including trade and...
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03.01.17ISIL Video Threatens China with ‘Rivers of Bloodshed’
Al Jazeera
ISIL fighters from China’s Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and “shed blood like rivers” in what security experts said marked the first such threat against Chinese targets.
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02.15.17Russia, China, ISIS: Rex Tillerson Faces Daunting Global Challenges
NBC News
America’s new top diplomat will be tested during his maiden overseas trip to meet counterparts at a Group of 20 world powers gathering in Germany on Thursday and Friday.
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01.31.17Make China Great Again
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America’s rivals and enemies have enjoyed a very good 10 days.
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07.21.16
More Than 100 Chinese Muslims Have Joined the Islamic State
A July 20 report from New America, a think tank in Washington, DC, examined more than 4,000 registration records of fighters who joined the Islamic State between mid-2013 and mid-2014.
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2016 Elections in a Changing Asia-Pacific
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With Tsai Ing-wen taking office in Taipei next week and the U.S. presidential election approaching, new players will be taking the reins in the Asia-Pacific. In this podcast with Paul Haenle, Douglas Paal discusses the future of U.S.-China relations...
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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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12.09.15
How to Say ‘Islamic State’ in Mandarin
On December 6, the Islamic State released a slick recording of a Mandarin Chinese-language song glorifying jihad, in what seems to be a direct attempt to recruit Chinese Muslims to the terrorist group’s cause. “Awaken, Muslim brothers! Now is the...
The China Africa Project
12.02.15
Terrorism Forces its Way onto the China-Africa Agenda
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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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11.23.15China'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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11.20.15Will 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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11.20.15
China Censors Online Outcry After ISIS Execution
On November 18, the Islamic State (IS) released photos of what it claimed were two executed hostages. The photos, appearing in the terrorist group’s English-language magazine Dabiq, depict two men with bloodied faces, the word “executed” emblazoned...
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11.19.15
Is China a Credible Partner in Fighting Terror?
In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris China’s foreign minister Wang Yi said, “China is also a victim of terrorism. The fight against the ‘East Turkestan Islamic Movement’… should become an important part of the international fight against...
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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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11.18.15ISIS Kills Norwegian And Chinese Hostages
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09.11.15Islamic State Hostage Drama Underlines China’s Vulnerability
Wall Street Journal
Islamic State’s announcement this week that it had taken a Chinese man hostage underlined China’s growing vulnerability as it expands its footprint overseas.
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01.15.15Obama’s Anti-Islamic State Push May Be Helping China Crack Down on Its Uighurs
Foreign Policy
en President Barack Obama in September secured passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution requiring nations to prevent their citizens from traveling abroad to participate in acts of terrorism, it was mostly hailed as a landmark achievement to...
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ISIS and China
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With the recent capture of a Chinese ISIS soldier triggering speculation about the involvement of Chinese citizens in the Iraqi civil war, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn are joined in our studio by Edward Wong from The New York Times and Prashant...