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04.20.15China Defines Overall National Security Outlook in Draft Law
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Economic security is the basis of national security, and military, cultural, as well as social security are safeguarding measures.
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04.19.15IBM Venture With China Stirs Concerns
New York Times
IBM is running into Obama pressure to persuade Beijing to drop new measures that require American companies to hand over technology in exchange for market access.
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04.18.15China Cracks Down on Golf, the ‘Sport for Millionaires’
New York Times
Party officials in Guangdong, home to the 12-course Mission Hills Golf Club, are now forbidden to golf during work hours.
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04.17.15US and EU Criticise Chinese Journalist’s Jailing for ‘Leaking State Secrets’
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Gao Yu vows to appeal her 7-yr sentence for allegedly leaking Document 9, revealing Party hostility to human rights.
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04.17.15Opinion: Gao Yu Verdict Sends Clear Message to Regime Critics in China
Deutsche Welle
Chinese journalist Gao Yu's seven year sentence again shows how Beijing authorities deal with critics of the regime.
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04.16.15Why Do the Chinese Hack? Fear
War on the Rocks
To ensure its survival, the Chinese Communist Party has decided that it must control the Internet.
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04.16.15New Asian Development Bank Seen As Sign Of China’s Growing Influence
NPR
Obama worries the new bank will compete with the Western-led World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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04.15.15China’s Biggest Chip Maker’s Possible Tie-Up With H-P Values Unit at Up to $5 Billion
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Tsinghua Unigroup in talks to buy a controlling stake in Hewlett-Packard unit H3C Technologies.
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04.14.15The Netflix of China Is Invading the US With Smartphones
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LeTV launched its Internet video streaming service three years before Netflix (2004 versus 2007).
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04.13.15China Restricts Travel By Shenzhen Residents To Hong Kong
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The move is designed to assuage Hong Kongers angry with mainlanders who buy up goods.
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04.13.15China Releases 5 Women’s Rights Activists Detained for Weeks
New York Times
Police released five female activists detained after campaigning against sexual harassment on public transport.
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04.13.15China, US to Boost Cooperation on Repatriating Fugitives
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China and the U.S. are boosting cooperation in sending home crime suspects amid a Chinese drive to ferret out corrupt officials and fugitives.
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04.13.15Hank Paulson: Economic Challenges, China — and the Birds
USA Today
Paulson says the United States needs a clear-eyed, coordinated, consistent approach to the formidable challenge from China.
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04.13.15China Accused Of Decade Of Cyber Attacks On Governments And Corporates In Asia
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“There’s no smoking gun...,but all signs point to China” Bryce Boland told TechCrunch.
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04.13.15China’s Island-Building Is Ruining Coral Reefs, Philippines Says
New York Times
China’s South China Sea neighbors could lose up to $100 million a year because reefs are fish breeding grounds.
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04.07.15Cyber Leninism and the Political Culture of the Chinese Internet
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Environment
04.02.15‘Wolf Totem’ Trainer Sees Risks, Rewards for Hollywood in China
from chinadialogue
Wolf trainer Andrew Simpson has just wrapped up three years in Beijing coaching wolves to perform in the film version of the novel Wolf Totem. The Sino-French adaptation of Jiang Rong’s best-selling 2004 novel opened in Beijing and Europe in...
Features
04.02.15Frank Talk About Hong Kong’s Future from Margaret Ng
Following is the transcript of a recent ChinaFile Breakfast with Margaret Ng, the former Hong Kong legislator in discussion with Ira Belkin of New York University Law School and Orville Schell, ChinaFile Publisher and Arthur Ross Director of the...
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04.02.15American Admiral Flexing Muscles
Sydney Morning Herald
After taking aim at China's “Great Wall of Sand” China’s in the South China Sea, U.S. Admiral Harris has to make a plan.
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04.02.15‘Masturbation Will Lead to Homosexuality’: China’s LGBT Sex-Ed Problem in Chinese
Nation
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04.01.15Taiwan’s Rash Decision to Join AIIB
Diplomat
Taiwan’s legislative branch was never able to approve the application or review the evaluation reports and proposals.
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04.01.15New Chinese Cyberattacks: What’s to Be Done?
Starting last week, hackers foiled a handful of software providers that promote freedom of information by helping web surfers in China reach the open Internet. The attacks that drastically slowed the anti-censorship services of San Francisco-based...
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04.01.15Claims of Retaliation in Detention of Chinese Anticorruption Campaigner
New York Times
Ou Shaokun, 61, gained prominence by advising Guangzhou petitioners protesting government land seizures.
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04.01.15China’s Government Is Serious About Fundamentally Reshaping Itself
Respected China scholar David Shambaugh recently set off a firestorm among other China specialists when he predicted the collapse of China’s ruling Communist Party in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal. Beneath many of the arguments in his defense...
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04.01.15Xi Jinping Forever
Foreign Policy
Is China’s increasingly powerful president angling to break tradition and extend his rule indefinitely?
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04.01.15Obama Expands Options for Retaliating Against Foreign Hackers - NYTimes.com
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Obama used existing authority to impose economic sanctions on North Korea, but the new order will expand his options.
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04.01.15U.S. Navy Alarmed at Beijing’s ‘Great Wall of Sand’ in So China Sea
Washington Post
US Admiral says competing territorial claims in the South China Sea are “increasing regional tensions and the potential for miscalculation."
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03.31.15China Ban Hits Google’s Search Ad Share; Baidu Gains
International Business Times
Google’s share of 2015’s $81.59 billion search ad market at 54.5%, down from 54.7% in 2014 and 55.2% in 2013.
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03.31.15China Regulates Against Officials’ Judicial Meddling
Xinhua
To advance the rule of law China plans to name and shame officials who commonly interfere in judicial cases.
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03.31.15Chinese Authorities Compromise Millions in Cyberattacks
Great Firewall of China
Hijacking the computers of millions of innocent Internet users around the world shows China's disregard for Internet governance norms.
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03.30.15China Appears to Attack GitHub by Diverting Web Traffic
New York Times
In recent attacks on sites that try to help Internet users in China circumvent censorship, the Great Firewall appears to have been used as a weapon.
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03.30.15Q. and A.: Adam Fisk on Evading Internet Censorship in China
New York Times
GreatFire.org’s “mirrored” websites and the Internet bandwidth-sharing service Lantern have allowed users to access the open Internet.
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03.30.15How China Plans to Shape New Asian Order
Wall Street Journal
At the center of these efforts is the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and plans for pan-Asian infrastructure .
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03.30.15Iran Nuclear Talks: What China Brings to the Negotiating Table
Christian Science Monitor
China is reportedly proposing a compromise between Iran's insistence on an end to all UN sanctions and US desires for gradual relief.
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03.30.15Full Text of Chinese President’s Speech at Boao Forum for Asia
Xinhua
Xi's speech, entitled, "Towards a Community of Common Destiny and A New Future for Asia"
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03.30.15China’s Zhou Says PBOC Has Room to Act on Growth Slowdown
Bloomberg
The central bank chief's remarks follow China's weakest expansion since 1990.
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03.29.15U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit With Cyberattack
Wall Street Journal
The attack appears to underscore how China’s Internet censors increasingly reach outside the country.
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03.28.15Chinese Firms in Europe: Gone Shopping
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Gone shopping More European businesses are coming under Chinese ownership.
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03.27.15U.S. About-Face on AIIB Would be Welcomed
China Daily
US leaders have for years said Asia-Pacific nations do not have to choose between China and the US.
Environment
03.26.15China Court to Hear NGO Lawsuit Targeting Polluter’s Profits
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An environmental group has filed a lawsuit for 30 million yuan (U.S.$4.8 million) to seek compensation from a Shandong chemical company for pumping out harmful substances—a legal action thought to be the first public interest litigation for air...
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03.26.15US Risks Epic Blunder by Treating China as an Economic Enemy
Telegraph
The United States has handled its economic diplomacy with shocking myopia.
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03.25.15Car-Hire Services Compete for the Ride Stuff
Uber's deal with a car broker is a sign of growing competition among firms relying on car-hire and taxi-hailing apps.
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03.24.15China Reiterates Openness of AIIB After Shift in US Attitude
Xinhua
The China-proposed AIIB, has an expected initial subscribed capital of $50 billion.
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03.24.15What Went Wrong With U.S. Strategy on China’s New Bank and What Should Washington Do Now?
Now that much of Europe has announced its intentions to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), was Washington’s initial opposition a mistake? Assuming the AIIB does get off the ground, what might it mean for future...
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03.23.15IBM to Share Technology with China in Strategy Shift: CEO
Reuters
IBM must help China build its IT industry rather than viewing the country solely as a sales destination or manufacturing base.
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03.23.15Chinese Relic Experts Claim 1,000-year-old Mummified Monk Was Stolen
CNN
Fujian officials found photos and historical records suggesting the statue belonged to a village temple.
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03.23.15Indonesian President Says China’s Main Claim in South China Sea Has No Legal Basis
Reuters
Jakarta says it wants to remain an "honest broker" in one of Asia's most thorny territorial disputes.
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03.20.15China’s ‘Comfort Women’
Financial Times
Thousands of Chinese women were forced into sex slavery during the second world war. Here is one survivor’s story.
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03.20.15China on the World Stage: A Bridge Not Far Enough
Economist
China plans a new bank to help match Asia’s vast savings with its even vaster need for infrastructure.
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03.19.15Coal Boomtowns Fade as China Declares War on Pollution
Science
China is headed towards peak coal which means cities reliant on coal mining struggle.
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03.19.15China (Finally) Admits to Hacking
Diplomat
An updated military document for the first time admits that the Chinese government sponsors offensive cyber units.
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03.19.15China, Japan Start First Security Talks in Four Years
Reuters
Step aimed at thawing ties plagued by the legacy of Japan’s wartime aggression and a territorial dispute.
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03.19.15China’s Biggest Anti-Censorship Service is Under Attack
Variety
GreatFire.org has been under an unprecedented denial-of-service attack, receiving more than 2 billion requests per hour.
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03.19.15China Gloats as Europeans Rush to Join Asian Bank
Washington Post
Xinhua described the U.S. as “petulant and cynical” for declining to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
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03.19.15Global Push Aims to Change China’s Mind on Bank Rules: U.S. Official
Reuters
Lobby wants China to stop rules that would force tech vendors to Chinese banks to hand over source code.
Environment
03.19.15World Coal Investments Increasingly Risky, Especially China’s
from chinadialogue
The investment case for coal-fired power is looking increasingly unconvincing, but more plants will need to be cancelled if the world is to avoid runaway climate change, a report published on Monday said.The report which was co-authored by green...
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03.18.15Dark Days for Women in China?
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03.18.15Xi Meets with Kissinger, Calls for More Trust Between China, U.S.
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Kissinger hailed the ongoing historic reform in China.
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03.17.15Why China Can’t Get too Angry at Burma for Dropping Bombs
Washington Post
Burma remains a large importer of Chinese weapons amd China needs the country's energy and raw materials.