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04.23.15China Asks Interpol to Help Find 100 Graft Suspects
Christian Science Monitor
Chinese authorities are seeking to repatriate absconding officials and others accused of corruption.
Viewpoint
04.23.15China’s Leftists Are Embracing Confucius. Why?
When Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu posted their new paper, “China’s Ideological Spectrum,” last week, it marked the first time that anyone has provided large-scale empirical data on the ideological shifts and trends within the Chinese population. China...
Books
04.23.15Intimate Rivals
No country feels China’s rise more deeply than Japan. Through intricate case studies of visits by Japanese politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, conflicts over the boundaries of economic zones in the East China Sea, concerns about food safety, and strategies of island defense, Sheila A. Smith explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it tries to navigate its relationship with an advancing China.Smith finds that Japan’s interactions with China extend far beyond the negotiations between diplomats and include a broad array of social actors intent on influencing the Sino-Japanese relationship. Some of the tensions complicating Japan’s encounters with China, such as those surrounding the Yasukuni Shrine or territorial disputes, have deep roots in the postwar era, and political advocates seeking a stronger Japanese state organize themselves around these causes. Other tensions manifest themselves during the institutional and regulatory reform of maritime boundary and food safety issues.Smith scrutinizes the role of the Japanese government in coping with contention as China’s influence grows and Japanese citizens demand more protection. Underlying the government’s efforts is Japan’s insecurity about its own capacity for change and its waning status as the leading economy in Asia. For many, China’s rise means Japan’s decline, and Smith suggests how Japan can maintain its regional and global clout as confidence in its postwar diplomatic and security approach diminishes.—Columbia University Press{chop}
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04.22.15China Warns North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal is Expanding
Agence France-Presse
China's communist ally may already have 20 warheads and the enrichment capacity to double that number in a year.
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04.22.15China Is Planning to Rebuild the Silk Road and Transform Global Trade Routes
Vice News
China plans to build a modern version of the Silk Road through Pakistan and beyond.
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04.22.15Xi Jinping of China and Shinzo Abe of Japan Meet Amid Slight Thaw in Ties
New York Times
The meeting signaled a continued slight warming in otherwise frosty relations between Asia’s two top economies.
Caixin Media
04.22.15China’s Anti-Corruption Drive: Don’t Stop Now
Beijing’s fight against corruption is now two years old. Some significant results have been achieved, winning strong public support. But it’s becoming increasingly difficult to move the campaign forward.The general public and government officials...
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04.21.15Xi Says Increasingly Confident in China-Pakistan Ties
Xinhua
Xi called for focus on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Gwadar Port, energy, transport infrastructure, and industrial cooperation.
Media
04.21.15This Chart Explains Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Internet Censorship
What goes through a Chinese web user’s head the moment before he or she hits the “publish” button? Pundits, scholars, and everyday netizens have spent years trying to parse the (ever-shifting) rules of the Chinese Internet. Although Chinese...
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04.21.15China Airs Pilot Free-Trade Zone National Security Rules for Foreign Investment
South China Morning Post
Investments in defence, the economy, social order, culture, and the Internet, will be reviewed.
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04.21.15China is Still Rising, Just More Slowly
Foreign Affairs
Embracing China's "new normal" or why the economy Is still
on track.
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04.21.15Curbs on Foreign Investment Cut for Four FTZs
China Daily
Pilot free trade zones in Tianjin, Guangdong, Fujian, and Shanghai now have fewer restrictions.
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04.21.1510 Most Censored Countries
Committee to Protect Journalists
For more than 10 years, China has been among the top 3 jailers of journalists in the world, a distinction that it is unlikely to lose soon.
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04.21.15China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
Foreign Affairs
Beijing looks West toward Eurasian integration.
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04.21.15What China’s and Pakistan’s Special Friendship Means
Washington Post
Sino-Pakistan friendship, read Islamabad billboards, "is higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel."
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04.20.15China’s New Ad Ban?
Reuters
China is considering a ban on advertisements for infant milk formula in a bid to tackle low levels of breast feeding.
Sinica Podcast
04.20.15China’s Ideological Spectrum
from Sinica Podcast
Last week, Harvard doctoral student Jennifer Pan and MIT graduate student Yiqing Xu co-released a paper, “China’s Ideological Spectrum,” that has garnered a tremendous amount of attention in China-watching circles. And the reason for the fracas?...
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04.20.15Shinzo Abe and Japan’s History
New York Times
But Japan cannot credibly help the U.S. to counter China in Asia if it seeks to repudiate criticism of its past.
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04.20.15Snowden Revelations Just Gave China More Ammunition Against US Hacking
Reuters
China concerned about New Zealand and U.S. intelligence plan to hack Chinese government buildings in Auckland.
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04.20.15China’s Investing $46 B to Carve Route Through one of World’s Most Dangerous Regions
Quartz
Xi visiing Pakistan to sign energy and infrastructure deals for a corridor stretching to Xinjiang.
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04.20.15China Defines Overall National Security Outlook in Draft Law
Xinhua
Economic security is the basis of national security, and military, cultural, as well as social security are safeguarding measures.
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04.19.15China Film Group Takes Role in Hollywood
Wall Street Journal
With a ten percent stake in ‘Furious 7’ China Film Group had, for the first time, an incentive to award an import a good release date.
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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.
The China Africa Project
04.18.15Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in Africa
The Chinese government has spent billions of dollars in Africa on public diplomacy initiatives that are intended to improve the country’s image. Central to that strategy is the growing network of Confucius Institutes (CIs) spread across the...
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04.17.15US and EU Criticise Chinese Journalist’s Jailing for ‘Leaking State Secrets’
Guardian
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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04.17.15Images Show Rapid Chinese Progress on New South China Sea Airstrip
Reuters
China's new airstrips sit in a shipping lane through which $5 trillion of trade passes each year.
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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.
Media
04.15.15Online Support–and Mockery–Await Chinese Feminists After Release
On April 13, Chinese authorities released on bail five feminist activists detained for over a month without formal charges. Despite tight censorship surrounding their detention, support on Chinese social media and thinly veiled media criticism...
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04.15.15Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
Atlantic
It's unclear how she would manage two of America's most important and complex relationships.
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04.15.15China’s G.D.P. Slows to 7 Percent, the Weakest Rate Since 2009
New York Times
China’s G.D.P. Slows to 7 Percent, the Weakest Rate Since 2009
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04.15.15Wild Pigeon
Daylight
“The underlying theme I heard when talking to people was that how you interpret things is how they will be, so its best to look at the bright side of things. You don’t mention bad dreams, or you try to interpret them in a positive way. People told...
Caixin Media
04.14.15Bulldozing the Cadre Who Revamped Kunming
Warm, sunny Kunming brimmed with charm before Communist Party leader Qiu He brought an autocratic style of governance to town and spurred the urbanization campaign that preceded his downfall.Today, this historic city in southwestern China is a...
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04.14.15Can the US and China Save the World?
Diplomat
The Department of Commerce emphasized Obama's commitment to fighting climate change through clean energy development.
Media
04.14.15Henry Paulson: ‘Dealing with China’
from Asia Blog
Speaking at Asia Society New York on April 13 with New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained that it’s impossible to predict the timing or magnitude of a financial crisis, but any country with...
Media
04.13.15The Chinese Internet Hates Hillary Clinton Even More than Republicans Do
On the afternoon of April 12, Hillary Clinton announced her long-expected decision to run for president in 2016. Within hours, Chinese news sites shared the announcement on Weibo, China’s most popular micro-blogging platform, provoking thousands of...
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04.13.15China Restricts Travel By Shenzhen Residents To Hong Kong
NPR
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
Associated Press
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.
The NYRB China Archive
04.13.15China: What the Uighurs See
from New York Review of Books
Xinjiang is one of those remote places whose frequent mention in the international press stymies true understanding. Home to China’s Uighur minority, this vast region of western China is mostly known for being in a state of permanent low-grade...
Culture
04.10.15A New Opera and Hong Kong’s Utopian Legacy
This year, the 43rd annual Hong Kong Arts Festival commissioned a chamber opera in three acts called Datong: The Chinese Utopia. Depicting the life and times of Kang Youwei (1858-1927), a philosopher and reformer of China’s last Qing dynasty, it...
Viewpoint
04.10.15Bury Zhao Ziyang, and Praise Him
Zhao Ziyang, the premier and general secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1980s, died on January 17, 2005. At a tightly controlled ceremony designed to avoid the kind of instability that the deaths of other controversial...
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04.10.15TV Presenter Insults Mao at Private Dinner
Guardian
CCTV is investigating a top presenters after he was caught calling Mao a “son of a bitch” at a private dinner.
The China Africa Project
04.10.15Chinese Dreams and the African Renaissance
Leaders in both China and Africa have articulated new visions for their respective regions that project a strong sense of confidence, renewal, and a break from once-dominant Western ideologies. In both cases, argues East is Read blogger Mothusi...
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04.09.15We Traveled Across China and Returned Terrified for the Economy
Bloomberg
China’s steel and metals markets, a barometer of the world’s second-biggest economy, are “a lot worse than you think.”
Books
04.09.15Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 1951-1979
A comprehensive history of how the conflicts and balances of power in the Maoist revolutionary campaigns from 1951 to 1979 complicated and diversified the meanings of films, this book offers a discursive study of the development of early PRC cinema. Wang closely investigates how film artists, Communist Party authorities, cultural bureaucrats, critics, and audiences negotiated, competed, and struggled with each other for the power to decide how to use films and how their extensively different, agonistic, and antagonistic power strategies created an ever-changing discursive network of meaning in cinema. —Palgrave Macmillan{chop}
Sinica Podcast
04.07.15Cyber Leninism and the Political Culture of the Chinese Internet
from Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo and David Moser speak with Rogier Creemers, post-doctoral fellow at Oxford with a focus on Chinese Internet governance and author of the China Copyright and Media blog.{chop}
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04.06.15Born Red
New Yorker
How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao.
Caixin Media
04.06.15Tycoon Said to Bring Down a Deputy Mayor, Control Key Beijing Land Deal
A recent business dispute between a state-owned technology conglomerate and a private property developer has put a low-profile but powerful businessman in the spotlight. The businessman is believed to have brought down a former Beijing deputy mayor...
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04.05.15China Escalates Hollywood Partnerships, Aiming to Compete One Day
New York Times
Chinese studios are moving up the value chain, helping to develop, design and produce world-class films and animated features.
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04.02.15The Chinese Billionaire Zhang Lei Spins Research Into Investment Gold
New York Times
Starting 10 years ago with $20 million from Yale’s endowment, Zhang was an early backer of Tencent and JD.com.
Books
04.02.15Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal, traders carrying salt across the Himalayas, and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa. What Chinese policymakers confronted in Tibet, Khan argues, was not a "third world" but a "fourth world" problem: Beijing was dealing with peoples whose ways were defined by statelessness. As it sought to tighten control over the restive borderlands, Mao's China moved from a lighter hand to a harder, heavier imperial structure. That change triggered long-lasting shifts in Chinese foreign policy. Moving from capital cities to far-flung mountain villages, from top diplomats to nomads crossing disputed boundaries in search of pasture, this book shows Cold War China as it has never been seen before and reveals the deep influence of the Tibetan crisis on the political fabric of present-day China. —The University of North Carolina Press{chop}
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...
Media
04.02.15‘Obama Is Sitting Alone at a Bar Drinking a Consolation Beer’
Danish and Chinese netizens have just shared in a collective guffaw at America’s expense. The online lampoonery came after Denmark announced on March 28 its intent to join the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank (AIIB), a China-led initiative...
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04.02.15New App Collects Xi’s Wisdom
Xinhua
The free app makes available Xi’s books including “The Governance of China.”
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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.
Conversation
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.