My first encounter with Liu Zhenyun was in 2003. At the time, cell phones had just become available in China and they were complicating people’s relationships. I witnessed a couple break up because of the secrets stored on a phone. I watched people getting more and more adept at lying to the person on the other end of the line, saying they were too busy to talk.
Xi’s reversal of guiding principles guiding Chinese politics post-Mao signals “the closing of the Chinese mind.”
[Note: This podcast was first recorded on May 13.—The Editors]
In September, three Sichuan newspapers attacked the animated cat Doraemon as a tool of Japan’s “cultural invasion.”
A U.S. anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft flew over waters off China's Nansha Islands last month.
Beijing’s claims in Asia are as valid as those made by the U.S. States against Mexico and Great Britain in the mid-19th century.
Copies of President Xi Jinping’s ‘The Governance of China,’ stacked on the floor at the BookExpo.
A massive poster of Xi Jinping, hanging in the lobby of the Javits Center.
A Yi, second from left, waylays a conference-goer so that Bi Feiyu, right, can give her a book.
The Javits Center lobby.
