Environment
11.16.16
The Future of Public Interest Litigation in China
from chinadialogue
China has seen a rapid growth in environmental public interest legal challenges since January 2015, when a revised version of the Environmental Protection Law (EPL) came into effect. Nearly 100 lawsuits have been filed by both NGOs and public...
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11.16.16China Discovers the Price of Global Power: Soldiers Returning in Caskets
Wall Street Journal
Xi’s quest to make his nation a military player on the world stage provokes soul-searching as China absorbs its first combat casualties in decades
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11.16.16“We Have a Fake Election”: China Disrupts Local Campaigns
New York Times
Local elections are democratic in name only. The party picks its preferred candidates and leaves no room for an upset
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11.16.16U.S. Returns Chinese Fugitive After 13 Years on the Run
Wall Street Journal
The U.S. government sent back to China a former official long wanted on corruption charges, in an act hailed by Beijing as a major diplomatic success
Conversation
11.15.16
Should China’s Neighbors Rely on the U.S. for Protection?
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of neo-isolationism that could see many traditional U.S. allies in Asia left without Washington’s support in the newly roiled waters of the South- and East China Seas. What will the governments...
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11.15.16Unswayed by Extraordinary Public Outcry, China Executes Nail Gun Killer
Washington Post
China sends messsage that ordinary people can’t take the law into their own hands, and the Communist Party is simply not going be swayed by a public outcry.
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11.14.16With It’s Latest Intervention in Hong Kong, Beijing Wins the Battle but is Losing the War
South China Morning Post
Cheung: the NPC should be sparing in the use of its power to interpret the Basic Law, or it risks further alienating the city’s young people
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11.11.16Trump Win Opens Way for China to Take Climate Leadership Role
CNBC
Trump's election is likely to end the U.S. leadership role in the fight against global warming, and may lead to the emergence of an unlikely champion: China.
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11.11.16For Chinese Women, a Surname is Her Name
New York Times
Keeping a surname is not an expression of marital equality, but of powerful patriarchal values. A married woman continued to be identified by her father’s lineage.
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11.11.16China is Also Going to the Polls. But You’d Barely Know It.
Washington Post
Between August and December, China is holding staggered local elections all across the country – an exercise in “grass-roots democracy” on a daunting scale
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11.10.16New Interpol Head is Chinese Former Deputy Head of Paramilitary Police
Guardian
Vice-minister Meng Hongwei’s election has sparked concerns his position may be used to boost China’s campaign to pursue dissidents around the globe
Conversation
11.09.16
How Should Trump Deal with China, and How Should China Deal with Trump?
Donald J. Trump, president-elect of the United States, spent much of his antagonistic campaign blaming China for many of America’s economic ills, and repeatedly making thinly veiled threats of a U.S. trade war with Beijing. How should Trump engage...
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11.08.16China Passes Law to Ensure Films ‘Serve the People and Socialism’
Guardian
First law governing the country’s film industry targets box-office fraud and says film-makers must have excellent moral integrity
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11.07.16China Adopts Cybersecurity Law Despite Foreign Opposition
Bloomberg
The law requires internet operators to cooperate with investigations involving crime and national security, mandatory testing and certification of equipment
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11.07.16In a First, China Moves to Bar 2 Hong Kong Legislators From Office
New York Times
The extraordinary intervention in the affairs of this semiautonomous former British colony could prompt a constitutional crisis and incite more street protests
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11.04.16China Will Intervene in the Case of Hong Kong’s Pro-Independence Lawmakers
Time
Experts worry Beijing's move to interpret HK's Basic Law would damage the people’s trust in the rule of law and the independence of the courts
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11.02.16Drug Giant Faced a Reckoning as China Took Aim at Bribery
New York Times
China sought to make an example of GlaxoSmithKline in a case that involved bribery of doctors and investigators and ended with guilty pleas and record penalties
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11.02.16Chaos Again at Hong Kong’s Legislature as Chinese Intervention Said to Loom Large
Time
Two separatist lawmakers attempt to take their oaths of office for a fourth time, as rumors of direct Chinese intervention fly
China in the World Podcast
11.02.16
Law of the Sea and the U.S. Election
from Carnegie China
The South China Sea has been a central point of tension in the U.S.-China relationship under the Obama administration. In this podcast, Paul Haenle speaks with John Bellinger, the most senior international lawyer in the George W. Bush administration...
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10.28.16China’s Forbidden Babies Still an Issue
BBC
The One Child Policy may be gone, but the control and coercion remain
Sinica Podcast
10.20.16
The Consequences of the One-Child Policy Will Be Felt for Generations
from Sinica Podcast
The first day of 2016 marked the official end of China’s one-child policy, one of the most controversial and draconian approaches to population management in human history. The rules have not been abolished but modified, allowing all married Chinese...
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10.20.16China Lags Behind in Rule of Law Ranking
WSJ: China Real Time Report
A new global ranking finds China is making limited progress
Features
10.19.16
Why Newly Elected Hong Kong Legislators Cursed and Protested—At Their Own Swearing-In
There’s a bit of a nanny state in the city of Hong Kong. The government is quick to issue advice and admonitions about all matter of hazards—high ocean waves, food waste, incense burning during the annual grave-sweeping festival. One night in late...
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10.19.16How the Party’s Absolute Power Undermines its Efforts to Strengthen China’s Rule of Law
South China Morning Post
While Chinese leaders support the need for a credible legal system, it is their iron-clad grip that is the stumbling block to its development
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10.19.16Crown’s Luck Runs Out as China Widens Casino Crackdown
Wall Street Journal
Foreign companies face inherent risks in attracting high-rollers from China, where gambling is illegal
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10.18.16Netflix's New, Brilliant China Strategy: Stay Out of the Country
Quartz
Netflix is saying zaijian to China, before it even got a foot in the door.
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10.18.16China’s Real ‘House of Cards’: TV Series Unveils Graft Excess
Bloomberg
The eight-episode series, called “Always On the Road,” is being beamed daily to hundreds of millions of Chinese homes through Oct. 25 on CCTV’s Channel 1
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10.17.16China Drops One-Child Policy, but ‘Exhausted’ Tiger Moms Say One is Plenty
Washington Post
“No fines, no arrests. Go ahead and have a second child if you want one!” The problem is that many people don’t want a second child any more.
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10.17.16The Race to China’s 19th Party Congress
Diplomat
Next fall, China’s leaders will kick off the 19th Party Congress. Start your engines.
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10.17.16China’s Last Tiananmen Prisoner Set to be Freed, but Frail
New York Times
Miao Deshun, the 51-year-old former factory worker, is severely ill after spending more than half his life behind bars
Sinica Podcast
10.14.16
An American’s Seven Months in a Chinese Jail
from Sinica Podcast
In 2009, Michael Manning was working in Beijing for a state-owned news broadcaster by day, but he spent his nights selling bags of hashish. His position with CCTV was easy and brought him into contact with Chinese celebrities, while his other trade...
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10.14.16Teenager is Convicted of Murder in 2014 Beating Death of USC Grad Student from China
Los Angeles Times
The defendants told detectives they’d targeted Xinran Ji because he was Chinese and they suspected he had money
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10.14.16Police Recover 300 Million Yuan Worth of Stolen Sichuan Relics
The two-year operation ends with 70 arrests and breakup of 10 criminal gangs
Caixin Media
10.12.16
Government Should Kick Land Sale Addiction to Cure Overheated Property Market
Chinese cities have rolled out new measures over the past week to cool a home-buying frenzy that has seen prices skyrocket, marking a new round of tightening since policies were eased two years ago. More than a dozen of China's largest cities,...
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10.12.16Russia May be Hacking Us More, but China is Hacking Us Much Less
NBC News
Chinese hacking has plummeted in the year since China signed an agreement with the Obama administration to curb economic espionage
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10.12.16Rebel Hong Kong Politicians Defy China at Chaotic Swearing-In Ceremony
Guardian
Pro-democracy politicians cross fingers and make protest signs and subversive references to Beijing’s authoritarian rulers
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10.11.16Henan Province, a Butt of Jokes in China, Gets a Champion in Court
New York Times
Henan has a P.R. problem, but Jing Changshui has an answer. He’s suing.
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10.11.16To Beijing’s Dismay, Jailed Uighur Scholar Wins Human Rights Award
Washington Post
A coalition of leading rights groups will bestow their annual award on Ilham Tohti, who is currently serving a life sentence in China
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10.10.16Tensions Rise Between South Korea and China After Chinese Tourists are Denied Entry to Jeju Island
Quartz
Following a recent spate of violent crimes conducted by Chinese tourists, some Chinese tourists were barred from entering Jeju
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10.07.16China Seeks Tighter Grip in Wake of a Religious Revival
New York Times
Increased regulations on religion are the latest move by President Xi to strengthen the Communist Party’s control over society and combat foreign influences.
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10.06.16Five Ways China Has Become More Repressive Under President Xi Jinping
Time
According to the 2016 report by the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, there has been a broad corrosion of freedoms
The NYRB China Archive
10.06.16
China: A Life in Detention
from New York Review of Books
Every year in China, thousands of people suffer what the United Nations calls “arbitrary detention”: confinement in extra-legal facilities—including former government buildings, hotels, or mental hospitals—which are sometimes known as “black jails...
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10.05.16Thailand Bars Entry to Teenage HK Activist “at China’s Request”
Reuters
Joshua Wong was detained in Bangkok where he had been invited to speak at universities about Hong Kong's "Umbrella Movement"
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10.04.16Propaganda and Censorship Remain China’s Favored Tools of Control
South China Morning Post
Recent court rulings rapping people questioning the party-state’s tales about war heroes reflect leaders’ insecurity over their rule
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10.03.16China Eyes Ending Western Grip on Top U.N. Jobs With Greater Control Over Blue Helmets
Foreign Policy
As China steps up its commitment to U.N. peacekeeping, Beijing is said to be eyeing a leadership role — with potentially troubling human rights implications
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09.30.16China Says Countering Dalai Lama is Top Ethnic Priority in Tibet
Reuters
Region's Communist Party boss vows to uproot the monk's "separatist and subversive" activities
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09.30.16When China Began Streaming Trials Online
BBC
Boot up your laptop or turn on your smartphone and take a peek inside legal proceedings
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09.30.16China Plans to Teach Developing Countries and the UN About Protecting Human Rights
Quartz
Like many of Beijing’s edicts, it is being criticized as a blatant piece of propaganda
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09.29.16Chengguan, Widely Despised Officers in China, Find Refuge and a Kind Ear
New York Times
China’s first Psychological Crisis Center for Chengguan opened in Nanjing this week
Media
09.29.16
How to Fix China’s Crooked Congress
Nearly four years into Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, Chinese citizens could be forgiven if their eyes glaze over at the news of yet another high official’s fall from grace. But even the most jaded likely could not ignore...
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09.26.16China to Prosecute Former Top Executives for Alleged Graft
Reuters
Next on the chopping block: former Sinopec, China Southern execs, Tibet top security official
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09.21.16Chinese Agents Enter Canada on Tourist Visas to Coerce Return of Fugitive Expats
Globe and Mail
Trudeau begins negotiations for an extradition treaty with China
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09.21.16Hong Kong Protest Leaders Avoid Jail After Failed Court Bid
Channel NewsAsia
"Umbrella Revolution" leaders walk free from court
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09.20.16Gay Pride: China Activists Fight ‘Conversion Therapy’
Hong Kong Free Press
Coming out was never going to be easy, but Yu never thought it would see him committed
Media
09.14.16
The Chinese Democratic Experiment that Never Was
Protesters in southern China are up in arms. They feel that Beijing’s promises that they’d be able to vote for their own local leaders have been honored in the breach. They’re outraged at the show of force in the face of peaceful protest, and...
Conversation
09.13.16
Can China’s Best Newspaper Survive?
On September 9, the South China Morning Post’s Chinese-language website went dark with little explanation, leading to concerns that censorship might next spread to the newspaper’s English-language coverage. Can Alibaba’s founder, Jack Ma, who has...
Depth of Field
09.12.16
African Migrants in Guangzhou, Forgetting, Family Planning’s Fate, and More...
from Yuanjin Photo
Photographing the aftermath of catastrophic events is challenging—one that photographer Mu Li handles with creativity and grace looking back at the chemical explosion in Tianjin that damaged as many as 17,000 homes August 12, 2015. Another challenge...
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09.12.16Mayor of Major Chinese Port City of Tianjin Faces Corruption Inquiry
Guardian
City’s acting Communist party chief is accused of ‘serious discipline breaches’ by investigators.