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10.17.12A Time-honored Tradition: Election Year and China-bashing
Washington Post
China's two decade explosive growth overshadows a struggling corruption-plagued communist state.
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10.17.12U.S. Presidential Debate Sees Candidates Flex China Muscle
Xinhua
Although the yuan rose nearly 30 percent since 2005, U.S. politicians are still taking jabs at China's currency regime.
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10.17.12Chinese elite politics: It's still a man's world
Associated Press
It's easier for a Chinese woman to orbit Earth than land a spot atop Chinese politics.
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10.17.12Analysis: Lost in Debate - Reality of U.S.-China Ties
Associated Press
U.S. presidential politics vilifying China obscures how deeply entwined the two countries have become.
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10.16.12China and Its Trade Tactics are Coming to the Debates
New York Times
China's economic relations with U.S. could feature hotly in next Presidential debate.
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10.15.12Romney Can Invoke Japan Overtaking China as U.S. Lender
Bloomberg
China is poised to lose its place as the U.S.’s biggest creditor for the first time since the height of the financial crisis, blunting one of Mitt Romney’s favored attacks in the presidential campaign.
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10.15.12American Politics and Chinese Data
Deal Book
In the midst of increasingly heated election rhetoric about China, Beijing has released some important economic data as its currency hits record highs. Both Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul D. Ryancriticized...
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10.15.12Is Mo Yan a Stooge for the Chinese Government?
Rectified.name
Even before the Swedish Academy announced Mo Yan as the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner, the Chinese internet was abuzz with discussion of his work and his relationship with the Chinese government.
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10.14.12Against Backdrop of Dispute with China, Japan Shows Off Navy
Associated Press
Japan’s navy marked 60th year with major exercise, showing off maritime strength amid territorial dispute with China.
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10.13.12Blind Chinese Activist Says Nephew Could Face Unfair Trial
Reuters
Chen Guangcheng said Chinese police sent his nephew, charged with knife attack, to state prosecutor, paving way for unfair trial.
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10.13.12Ryan Criticizes Obama Administration China Policy
New York Times
Romney Republican running mate slams President for delaying report on currency manipulation.
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10.12.12Mo Yan Calls for Liu Xiaobo’s Release
New York Times
Mo Yan, the new Nobel laureate who strenuously avoided antagonizing the Communist Party during much of his literary career, stepped into a political minefield on Friday by calling for the release of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned writer and...
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10.12.12New Details of How Wife of Chinese Politician Thought She Was Poisoned
New York Times
The wife of Bo Xilai, the disgraced Chinese politician, was told several years ago by a doctor that her nervous system had suffered irreversible damage because she had been steadily ingesting poison that someone had slipped into...
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10.12.12Bo Xilai as a Catalyst for Political Reform
No matter how you look at it, the disciplinary process surrounding the case of Bo Xilai will have historic implications.Details of the crimes committed by Bo, his wife, Bogu Kailai, and his former right-hand man, Wang Lijun, reflect a level of...
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10.12.12Review: Ai Weiwei at the Hirshhorn
New York Times
Mr. Ai, who seems to lose his sense of humor only rarely, has characterized his increasingly dangerous jousting with the Chinese government as a kind of performance art.
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10.12.12
Chinese Direct Investment in California
Daniel H. Rosen
Asia Society
To build the case for a robust response to these opportunities and looming risks, this report analyzes Chinese investment in California in depth, mining a unique database for insights about California’s comparative advantages, the Chinese firms most...
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10.12.12Japan and China Agree to Talks on Rift after Noda Call
Bloomberg
Talks aim to reduce tensions over territorial dispute, avoid suffering in Asia’s biggest economies.
Environment
10.11.12
China’s New Leaders Must Respect Environmental Rights
from chinadialogue
China has achieved remarkable economic successes over the last three decades. For years, it has led the world in GDP growth. But widespread industrialization and urbanization, along with growth based on increased use of resources, mean the nation...
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10.11.12
An Honest Writer Survives in China
from New York Review of Books
A little over a year ago, I went with the Chinese writer Yu Hua to his hometown of Hangzhou, some one hundred miles southwest of Shanghai, and realized that his bawdy books might not be purely fictional; their characters and situations seemed to...
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10.11.12
Standing Their Ground
Amnesty International
The forced eviction of people from their homes and farmland has become a routine occurrence in China and represents a gross violation of China’s international human rights obligations on an enormous scale. Despite international scrutiny and censure...
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10.10.12Censorship Reaching 1,000 Miles Exposed on China’s Twitter
Netizens exposing public servants' taste for expensive timepieces has sparked an online and newspaper crackdown. On October 9, Wang Keqin (@王克勤), an Economic Observer (@经济观察报) reporter posted on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, that...
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10.10.12Noda Calls for China Talks as Island Spat Threatens Growth
Bloomberg
PM calls for talks to contain economic damage from dispute with Japan's No. 1 trade partner.
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10.10.12Over A Distressed Europe, It's Super China To The Rescue
Forbes
China is considering lending even more money to bail out the region’s recessionary economies.
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10.10.12Five Points on the Deeply Flawed U.S. Congress Huawei Report
Transpacifica
Chinese telecomms firms painted as shady, but evidence to back up allegations is hidden in report's classified sections.
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10.10.12As Romney Repeats Trade Message, Bain Maintains China Ties
New York Times
China-related holdings by funds in which Mr. Romney has invested are a reminder of how he inhabits two worlds.
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10.10.12China Gets Back to Work
New York Times
After China's Golden Week holiday, a round-up of important recent stories on economy and politics.
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10.09.12What Han Han's App Means for Chinese Censorship
By publishing "The One" as an iPhone app, China's superblogger bypassed the State Administration of Radio Film and Television.
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10.09.12The Pivot (Video)
University of Southern California, U.S.-China Institute
The Obama administration has made Asia a top priority for U.S. foreign policy. The move has been dubbed "The Pivot," and it has the potential to be one of the most enduring legacies of the Obama presidency.
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10.08.12No Ancient Wisdom for China
YaleGlobal Online
The much-vaunted China Model has morphed in the past decade to a one-of-a-kind system of authoritarian capitalism that is in danger of terminating itself – and taking the world down with it. It is also proving incompatible with global trade...
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10.08.12Review of Ai Weiwei at the Hirshhorn
Wall Street Journal
Ai Weiwei will probably be regarded as the most important artist of the past decade. He is certainly its most newsworthy and arguably its most inspiring. Over the repressions of Chinese authorities, he has used a wide range of resources to broadcast...
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10.08.12Huawei Fires Back at the U.S.
Wall Street Journal
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Inc. lashed out Monday at a scathing congressional report, calling allegations that it may be spying on Americans and violating U.S. laws "little more than an exercise in China-bashing."
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10.06.12Former Wife of Fallen Chinese Leader Tells of a Family’s Paranoid Side
New York Times
Just months before his fall from power, Bo Xilai asked the brother of his first wife to meet him at a government compound in the southwest metropolis of Chongqing.
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10.05.12Fu Manchu Returns
Wall Street Journal
Fear of China is back. But it's a nebulous fear, and this creates both an opportunity and an obstacle for the male and female anti-heroes of Christopher Buckley's latest look at the surreal world of lobbyist, the uneven but occasionally...
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10.05.12Ralls vs. CFIUS: What Are the Implications for Chinese Investment?
Council on Foreign Relations
First, this was not a political move by the President to position himself as tough on China, as suggested by some. The timeline of the review through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Presidential...
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10.04.12The Mixed Bag of Socialism
China Media Project
Ahead of the 18th National Congress, the phrase “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is as strong as ever.
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10.04.12What the U.S. Presidential Debate Looked Like From China
Atlantic
Chinese netizens shared mixed views of the U.S. election, some cynical, some optimistic.
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10.04.12
David Levine’s China
from New York Review of Books
David Levine’s depictions of Chinese notables—and everyone else he drew, for that matter—are so sublime that very often after seeing an image, one is left hardly able to remember what the real person actually looked like.Levine had way of catching...
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10.03.12Mistresses and Corruption
Bloomberg
Which came first? The corruption or the mistresses? In China, they most often go together. The stories abound: from the corrupt official in Fujian who, in 2002, held the first (and only) annual competition to judge which...
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10.02.12Han Han: “Why Aren't You Grateful?”
New York Review of Books
When looking for Chinese reactions to the anti-Japanese riots that took place in late September, it was probably not much of a surprise that the Western press turned to Han Han, the widely read Shanghai-based blogger. In characteristic form, Han...
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10.01.12Beijing Blocks Dissident’s Art Company
New York Times
Liu Xiaoyuan, a lawyer friend of Ai Weiwei, the artist and frequent critic of the Communist Party, has said in an online posting that Chinese officials have revoked the business license of Mr. Ai’s art production company, Beijing Fake...
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10.01.12Disgraced Chinese Official’s Son Defends Him
New York Times
The youngest son of Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party leader who is expected to be tried on a wide range of criminal charges, has released a statement defending his father as “upright in his beliefs and devoted to duty.”
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10.01.12Sensitive Words: Bo Xilai’s Expulsion
China Digital Times
Since Bo Xilai’s expulsion from the Communist Party and announcement that he would face criminal charges, a number of Sina Weibo terms related to Bo which were previously blocked from search results are now live once again...
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10.01.12National Identity: Pictures of the Enemy
Economist
The national identity has become so unfortunately bound up with demonstrations against Japan. So we turn from recent differences to subjects less timely. The horrors of the Nanjing massacre of 1937 have long stoked the imagination of...
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10.01.12Han Han: ‘Why Aren’t You Grateful?’
from New York Review of Books
When looking for Chinese reactions to the anti-Japanese riots that took place in late September, it was probably not much of a surprise that the Western press turned to Han Han, the widely read Shanghai-based blogger. In characteristic form, Han...
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09.28.12Bo Xilai's Case: China's Pandora's Box
New Yorker
The Chinese Communist Party has just done something it hates to do: hang its dirty laundry out in public. With a level of force and lurid color that surprised just about everyone who pays attention to these things, on Friday the...
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09.28.12Ousted From Party in China, Bo Xilai Faces Prosecution
New York Times
Chinese leaders announced on Friday that Bo Xilai, a disgraced Communist Party aristocrat, had been expelled from the party and would be prosecuted on criminal charges, as the date for the 18th Party Congress, climaxing China’s once-a-decade...
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09.28.12
Bo Xilai Ousted from Communist Party
The Communist Party has expelled Bo Xilai, the former party chief of Chongqing, who’s been embroiled in corruption allegations since early this year.The Politburo made the decision on September 28, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Bo will next...
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09.27.12Chinese Female Official Aspires to Top Role
Washington Post
Most of the 25 members of China’s Politburo are uncannily similar, with their black-dyed hair, dark suits and science degrees, but one stands out.With her trademark blue skirt-suit and pearls, Liu Yandong, 66, the top official in charge of health,...
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09.27.12China Politics Stall Overhaul for Economy
New York Times
When it comes to confronting economic slowdowns, the Chinese government has not been shy about making bold moves. Faced with the contagion of global recession four years ago, policy makers created a $585 billion stimulus package that helped...
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09.27.12
China Analysis: Gaming North Korea
European Council on Foreign Relations
China and North Korea have had an uneasy relationship in recent years. While the PRC has sometimes played the role of buffer state in North Korea’s dealings with the United States, South Korea, and other nations, Chinese leaders have also expressed...
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09.27.12Protests Roiling, China’s Mainstream Media Showed an Alternate Reality
It’s already entered the annals of China’s brief but rich Internet history: On Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, posts showing massive anti-Japan protests in China went viral on September 15th and 16th. Out in the real world, protestors across dozens of...
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09.27.12
China’s Lost Decade
from New York Review of Books
It’s hard to believe, but just twenty years ago China was on the verge of abandoning the market reforms that have since propelled it to its current position as a world power. Conservatives had used the 1989 Tiananmen massacre to reverse the country’...
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09.25.12What the Foxconn Riot Says About China
New Yorker
Day by day, Chinese workers expect better conditions and greater guarantees that when companies go bust, the employees will not. And, yet, China permits no independent trade unions or free collective bargaining. Complaint and mediation procedures...
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09.25.12Still a Model? Revisiting the Rebel Village of Wukan
WSJ: China Real Time Report
A little over a year ago, residents of the small southern Chinese fishing village of Wukan ransacked the offices of the local government in protest over a land grab by local officials. The death in police custody of one of the protest leaders a few...
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09.25.12China Shows Off an Aircraft Carrier but Experts Are Skeptical
New York Times
In a ceremony attended by the country’s top leaders, China put its first aircraft carrier into service on Tuesday, a move intended to signal its growing military might as tensions escalate between Beijing and its neighbors over islands in nearby...
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09.24.12The Persistence of Problems in China’s Factories
Wall Street Journal
A riot involving 2,000 workers at a factory in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan on Sunday night once has once again shined a light on conditions at factories owned by Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn. The cause of the riot appears to have been a...
Media
09.24.12
Law Professor He Weifang on Why Wang Lijun’s Trial Scared Him
Today, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua announced that Wang Lijun, the former Chongqing police chief, has been found guilty by a court in Chengdu of four criminal charges, including defection, abuse of power, taking bribes, and bending the law...
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09.23.12Chinese Official Linked to a Murder Scandal Is Convicted
New York Times
Chinese court officials have found Wang Lijun, a former police chief, guilty of four criminal charges after he fled to a United States Consulate last February and told diplomats there that the wife of a senior politician had murdered a British...
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09.23.12Who Stripped the Law of Its Dignity
A common refrain in official statements and court documents is: "China is a socialist country run by the rule of law. The dignity and power of law shall not be trampled." But how Bogu Kailai and her accomplices were able to disregard...
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09.23.12Verdict on Wang Lijun Expected
Reuters
The ex-police chief who triggered China's most spectacular political upheaval for decades is virtually sure to be convicted on four charges on Monday, turning attention to the fate of his disgraced former boss, Bo Xilai.A court in southwest...