Viewpoint
11.05.15
The Problem With the China Model
The ideological competition between democracy and authoritarianism was supposed to have died with the Cold War. But it has returned with a vengeance, powered above all by the rise of China. Now comes a book by a respected scholar that purports to...
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11.04.153 Things Taiwan Wants From China
Time
Here are three issues that are likely to be on the top of Ma’s agenda after seven decades without a face-to-face meeting.
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11.04.15China to Push Cultural 'Blending' in Xinjiang Stability Push
Reuters
China will push the study of Mandarin and the "blending" of different races as part of a new stability push in the troubled far western region of Xinjiang.
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11.04.15How Smartphones are Solving One of China’s Biggest Mysteries
Washington Post
For decades, China has been engaged in a building boom of a scale that is hard to wrap your mind around.
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11.04.15Call Me Mister: Taiwan, China Presidents to Hold Historic Meeting
CNN
The leaders of Taiwan and China plan to meet in Singapore on Saturday for the first time since the Chinese civil war ended in 1949.
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11.03.15How China Wants to Rate Its Citizens
New Yorker
In certain respects, a national credit system of some kind is long overdue in China.
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11.02.15Did a Chinese Mogul Beat a Treasury Dept. Ban on Doing Business in the U.S.?
Al Jazeera
Records reveal NYC building is owned by company linked to man blacklisted for allegedly funding African dictators.
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11.02.15Q. and A.: Chan Koonchung on Imagining a Non-Communist China
New York Times
We’re in Beijing — no, Beiping — Dec. 10, 1979.
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11.02.15Ailing Europe Looking for 'Chinese Medicine'
CNBC
The Chinese have never seen so many European leaders beating their path to Beijing.
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11.02.15China Sends Armed Jets Over Disputed Waters In Response to U.S. Naval Presence
Time
“It’s a signal China sent to the US that it is serious about its claims.”
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11.02.15China, Japan and South Korea Relations 'Completely Restored' After Summit
CNN
"All sides shared the view that trilateral cooperation has been completely restored in this meeting."
Conversation
11.02.15
How Far Have China’s Economic Reforms Come over the Past Year?
As the Chinese Communist Party leadership wrapped up its Fifth Plenum, the meeting at which the Party’s leadership set the Five Year Plan that will shape economic policy through 2020, what progress has been made on the “comprehensive deepening” of...
Media
10.30.15
Xi’s State Visits As Seen on the Cover of ‘China Daily’
The state visits of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping to Washington, D.C. in September and London last week were both significant milestones in China’s long term “rejuvenation,” a key element in Xi’s vaunted notion...
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10.30.15China’s Communist Party Approves Five-Year Plan
Wall Street Journal
Economists will be watching to see whether it sets ambitious or moderate growth targets.
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10.29.15China to End One-Child Policy, Allowing Families Two Children
New York Times
China’s Communist Party brought to an end the decades-old “one child” policy.
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10.29.15Two More Japanese Being Held in China, Says Chinese Official
Reuters
"In addition to the two who were arrested, one is being held and one is being watched at home," the official said.
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10.29.15Li Floats New China Five-Year Growth Minimum of Around 6.5%
Bloomberg
China’s goal of a “moderately prosperous society” refers to policy makers’ plan to double per-capita income by 2020 from 2010 levels.
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10.29.15Yan Lianke: Understand the Enemy
Huffington Post
"I think that my fate cannot be separated from literature."
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10.29.15White House Moves to Reassure Allies With South China Sea Patrol, but Quietly
New York Times
Lawmakers and national security hawks have urged President Obama to stand up to China’s land reclamation of disputed islands.
Media
10.29.15
Ai Weiwei Doesn’t Need Anyone to Give Him Legos
The noted Chinese artist and perennial dissident Ai Weiwei recently announced that Lego, a Denmark-based company, had refused his request to purchase more than a million of the tiny toy bricks for an Australian display of his work “Trace,” a...
Conversation
10.28.15
Making Waves in the South China Sea
Challenging China’s newly assertive behavior in the South China Sea, this week the U.S. Navy sailed some of its biggest ships inside the nine-dash line, exercising its claim to freedom of movement in international waters plied by billions in trade...
Media
10.28.15
‘Stop Boasting and Fight’
On October 27, the high-stakes maritime game of chicken that has been playing out in the South China Sea came to a head. In a long-discussed freedom of navigation patrol, the United States sailed the USS Lassen, a guided missile destroyer, within 12...
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10.28.15Can Xi Jinping Control China’s Wave of Change?
Washington Post
“Party tightens grip on dissenting voices,” headlined the South China Morning Post on Friday.
Caixin Media
10.27.15
Does the Punishment Fit the Corruption?
After Chen Bokui, the deputy head of a government advisory body in the central province of Hubei, was convicted of taking 2.8 million yuan in bribes by a court in the eastern province of Fujian in April, he received a somewhat stiff sentence—17...
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10.27.15Criticism of the UK’s New Approach to China Is Misplaced
Diplomat
Wait for some evidence before assuming that only bad can come from good relations.
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10.27.15America’s Society Is Wealthier Than China’s – And It Doesn’t Matter
Diplomat
The large gap in private wealth has limited significance.
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10.27.15Where Does Britain Draw the Line with Saudi Arabia and China?
Guardian
UK economy needs the cash flowing in, but politicians should be wary of throwing out all principle in favour of business.
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10.27.15In the Race for Africa, India and China Aren’t All That Different
Quartz
During the third India-Africa Summit, Indian officials are working hard to differentiate their country from China.
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10.27.15Psychedelic Video Sings Praises of China's Five Year-Plan
Agence France-Presse
"If you wanna know what China's gonna do, best pay attention to the shisanwu."
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10.27.15China Says It Warned and Tracked U.S. Warship in South China Sea
CNN
Chinese government: Don't push us
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10.27.15President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe Turns Down Confucius Peace Prize
New York Times
Mr. Mugabe decided to reject the prize after learning that it had nothing to do with the Chinese government.
Sinica Podcast
10.27.15
Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia
from Sinica Podcast
The West has spent decades pleading with China to become a responsible stakeholder in the global community, but what happens now that China is starting to take a more proactive role internationally? In this podcast, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser are...
Culture
10.26.15
Xi Jinping on What’s Wrong with Contemporary Chinese Culture
from China Film Insider
At the Beijing Forum on Literature and Art last October, President Xi Jinping spoke to a high-level audience of arts professionals about the role of arts and culture in China. The event, along with excerpts of the October 15, 2014 speech, given in...
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10.26.15Two-Child Policy Is Too Little, Too Late
Bloomberg
When Chinese leaders convene this week for a four-day meeting on the future of the country’s economy, the biggest news might have to do with babies.
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10.26.15India Is Spending Billions to Populate a Remote Area Claimed by China
Bloomberg
"If China is developing on their side of the territory, we should develop on our side."
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10.26.15Leaving China? Your books, Maps and DVDs May Be Confiscated
Los Angeles Times
An odd thing happened when movers came to box up Ruth Kirchner's furnishings as she was preparing to return to Berlin after a decade in China.
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10.26.15Mark Zuckerberg Courts China With Speech on People and Perseverance
New York Times
Mark Zuckerberg knows how to court Chinese users.
Media
10.23.15
The Eagle, the Dragon, and the ‘Excellent Sheep’
Former Yale University English professor William Deresiewicz’s book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, created a firestorm in the United States when it was released in August 2014. “The...
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10.23.15
Hemingway's Literary Escape
One noonday in 2002, a friendly acquaintance of mine—I’ll call him Q—left his office in a Beijing concert hall to go to lunch and never returned. After a series of inquiries, his wife and colleagues learned that he had been arrested. Various charges...
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10.23.151 Month Later: What Are the Long-Term Implications of Xi's U.S. Trip?
Diplomat
While political and security matters dominated headlines, Xi’s U.S. trip was actually driven by economics.
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10.23.15How Hungry Is China for the World's Food?
CNBC
China's transformation from an agrarian economy remains a work in progress.
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10.23.15Beijing Says Won't Give up Position that Taiwan's Part of China
Reuters
Chinese people have a "sacred mission" to ensure Taiwan is always considered part of China.
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10.23.15Xi’s Visit to Britain Highlights Broader Shift in Concerns About China
New York Times
The visit to Britain by Xi Jinping is underscoring how European nations are de-emphasizing human rights and security concerns.
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10.23.15China Hopes to See A United EU, Xi Tells Britain on Visit
Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Britain he wants to see a united European Union.
Environment
10.22.15
China's Boom Has Hurt Wetlands, Threatens Extinction of Rare Birds
from chinadialogue
The destruction of China’s wetlands, which are critical stopping points for birds migrating as far away as the Arctic or the South Pacific, threatens mass extinctions of species across East Asia, new research has found.Besides providing shelter and...
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10.22.15China Golf: Communist Party Bans Club Membership
BBC
Extravagant eating and drinking, and abuse of power, are also formally banned.
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10.22.15Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Awarded 'China's Nobel Peace Prize'
Guardian
Confucius peace prize chairman defends decision to give award to leader accused of using systematic violence to maintain power.
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10.22.15Human Rights: What Is China Accused of?
BBC
China's human rights record has been criticised for years.
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10.22.15China Plans 2020 Deadline for Dismantling Capital Controls
Bloomberg
Top officials in the Communist Party will discuss pledging to “make the yuan convertible under the capital account".
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10.22.15Philippines Says Handing China Suspects in Diplomats' Shooting
Reuters
Two Chinese diplomats suspected of killing two colleagues will be granted diplomatic immunity and handed over to Chinese authorities.
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10.22.15
The Bloodthirsty Deng We Didn’t Know
from New York Review of Books
“Deng was…a bloody dictator who, along with Mao, was responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people, thanks to the terrible social reforms and unprecedented famine of 1958–1962.” This is the conclusion of Alexander Pantsov and Steven...
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10.21.15Many in the West Fear Chinese ‘Aid’ to Africa. They’re Wrong. Here’s Why.
Washington Post
Western pundits have a narrative about China’s activities in Africa.
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10.21.15As Britain Greets Xi With Pageantry, Magna Carta Gets Less-Than-Royal Treatment in China
WSJ: China Real Time Report
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10.21.15Britain Should Harness the Power of China's Red Tech Revolution
Telegraph
China's start-up culture means the best jobs of the future may soon be, not here, but in the East.