Conversation
12.16.22
How Well Is China Advancing Its Interests in Southeast Asia?
Xi Jinping traveled to Southeast Asia last month to attend the G20 summit in Bali before moving on to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ meeting in Bangkok. The meetings came on the heels of Premier Li Keqiang’s...
Conversation
12.28.21
Three Questions for China’s Neighbors
“China was, is, and will always be a good neighbor,” China’s leader Xi Jinping told ASEAN representatives in a November 2021 virtual meeting, after a series of conflicts over Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea had raised tensions...
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11.24.20
A Border Town’s Second Gamble
Maxine greets us from her small apartment, decorated with flowers and a poster of herself. “If you ask me whether I feel like this is Laos or China, I feel like I’m living in China. There are so many Chinese people here,” she says as she brushes her...
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04.26.19
Chiang Mai’s Chinese Transfer Students
On a chilly winter Friday in early 2013, seven-year-old Zou Yanhu came home from school, looking dejected. Yanhu was a first-grader attending a public primary school in Chengdu, Sichuan’s sprawling capital city. His weekend homework was to write...
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05.22.18Railroaded: The Chinese High-Speed Train Network No One Else Really Wants
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Terrain is easy, negotiations hard, as construction begins on politically fraught route through Southeast Asia.
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05.08.17AP Exclusive: China Lawyer’s Family Says U.S. Helped Them Flee
Washington Post
Chen Guiqiu whose husband, prominent rights lawyer Xie Yang, is held on charge of inciting subversion made a harrowing flight from China with her daughters chased by Chinese security agents across Southeast Asia.
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10.05.16Thailand Bars Entry to Teenage HK Activist “at China’s Request”
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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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03.27.16Thailand Calls Off Deal for China to Finance Railway
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Thailand has been struggling to secure what it considers a satisfactory financing deal from Beijing for the 250 kilometer rail line.
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02.09.16China’s Message to Dissenters: Flee If You Dare
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Recent months have seen an unprecedented expansion of China’s power to snatch up detractors across borders.
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02.05.16No Escape? China's Crackdown on Dissent Goes Global
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At least four dissidents of Chinese origin disappeared from Thailand in the last four months...only to resurface back in Chinese custody.
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11.18.15Thailand Deports 2 Dissidents to China, Rights Groups Say
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The groups denounced the act, by the Thai authorities, as a betrayal of the two men’s right to flee feared political persecution and torture.
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09.02.15Suspect in Bangkok Bombing Has Chinese Passport, Thailand Says
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The bombing was connected to the grievances of Uighurs who say they are oppressed by ethnic Han.
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07.09.15Thailand Deports 100 Muslim Uighurs to China
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Thailand deported some 100 members of a Turkic Muslim minority group wanted by China as illegal migrants, drawing a rare rebuke from the United Nations and causing protesters in Turkey to storm a Thai consulate.
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01.14.15In Remote Thai Villages, Legacy of China’s Lost Army Endures
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At night, traditional Chinese red lanterns illuminate the hotels, shop fronts and Yunnanese-style restaurants lining the main road in this highland village of just over 1,000 people. On one recent evening, as the mist rose off a nearby reservoir,...