China’s output of greenhouse gases could peak in 2025, five years earlier than it has promised, meaning that the world’s largest emitter may be able to quicken the pace of cuts in coming decades, according to a new paper published June 8 by the London School of Economics (LSE).
After a peak in October 2007, prices fell about 70 percent over 12 months. This time, the risks are bigger and broader.
Police linked the arrests to the most strident local voices against the Chinese government.
We have enough favorite writers on China that we’ve had to develop a sophisticated classification system just to keep track of everyone. That said, one of our hardest to place within the long-form taxonomy is Chris Beam, who you may have heard on past episodes talking about his experience in Chinese ping-pong bootcamp, or maybe his account of the birth of American football with the saga of the Chongqing Dockers.
The attackers compromised websites frequented by Chinese journalists as well as China’s Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
Chinese funds just experienced the biggest exodus of money ever.
Suki Kim, teaching a class at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, North Korea, 2011.
Zhou Yongkang—erstwhile oil czar, former chief of China’s dreaded state security apparatus, a man once swaggering and fit enough to perform 50 to 100 pushups in front of fawning onlookers—has completed his transformation into a sad historical footnote.
Burmese opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent 15 years under house arrest in Myanmar, is visiting the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing for five days this week, through Sunday. Also courted by Japan and the West, Suu Kyi arrives in Beijing at a time of rising anti-Chinese sentiment in Myanmar, conflict at the Myanmar-Yunnan border, and a stalling of inbound Chinese investment in infrastructure projects.—The Editors
A couple of weeks ago, I received a request from a New York Times reporter to talk about publishing in China. The topic has been in the news lately, with the BookExpo in New York, where Chinese publishers were the guests of honor. In May, the PEN American Center released “Censorship and Conscience: Foreign Authors and the Challenge of Chinese Censorship,” an excellent and extremely useful report on the restrictions in China, and PEN organized a protest to coincide with the Expo.
