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Page 1 of Guangzhou’s Southern Metropolis Daily, a leading commercial tabloid, on June 3, 2015. Image and content are from Xinhua News Agency.
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President Hu Jintao pays an official visit to the People’s Daily on June 20, 2008, just weeks after the devastating Sichuan earthquake, and pushes the new media policy concept of “public opinion channeling.”
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Members of the staff at Guangzhou’s Southern Weekly hold up copies of the January 2013 New Year’s special edition of the newspaper that was heavily censored by Party leaders, prompting a staff protest that become international news.
Hillary Clinton Says China Hacks into “Everything that Doesn’t Move”
on July 6, 2015
The Democratic presidential candidate accused Chinese hackers of stealing “huge amounts of government information.”
Chinese Tourists Warned over Turkey Uighur Protests
on July 6, 2015
China advised citizens against travelling to Turkey after it said several tourists were attacked in protests over the Chinese government's treatment of Uighur Muslims.
China Stocks Rise as Beijing’s Emergency Moves Brings Some Relief
on July 6, 2015
Support measures unleashed by Beijing brought some relief to a market after headlong slide over three weeks.
China’s Expanding Military Presence in Africa
A China in Africa Podcast
on July 6, 2015
China is steadily expanding its military footprint in Africa, highlighted by the recent deployment of 700 combat-ready troops to join a multinational peacekeeping operation in South Sudan. In all, the People’s Liberation Army and Navy now have an estimated 2,700 soldiers, sailors, engineers, and medical staff stationed across the continent.
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
on July 3, 2015
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos is the Chief Executive of the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg. Before her current appointment she was director of studies at SAIIA from 1999 to April 2005. She was previously research director at the South African Institute of Race Relations and editor of the highly acclaimed Race Relations Survey (now the South Africa Survey) an annual publication documenting political and constitutional developments, and socio-economic disparities in South Africa. She is the editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of International Affairs. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the EU’s Development Commissioner and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Indian Foreign Affairs Journal.
Chris Alden
on July 3, 2015
Chris Alden is Associate Senior Research Fellow on South African Foreign policy and China-Africa Relations at the South African Institute of International Affairs. He holds a Readership in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He taught International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1990 to 2000 and established the East Asia Project in 1992. He has held fellowships at Cambridge University, Tokyo University, Ecole Normale Superieure, and University of Pretoria. Alden is the author/co-author of numerous books, including Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State (Palgrave 2003), China in Africa (Zed 2007), The South and World Politics (Palgrave 2010), and co-editor of A Mamba e o Dragão: Relações Moçambique-China em perspectiva, Cidadania e Governação em Moçambiqu (IESE/SAIIA 2012), China Returns to Africa (Hurst 2008), as well as articles in internationally recognized journals.
Chen Long
on July 3, 2015
Chen Long is the China economist at Gavekal Dragonomics. Before joining the firm in January 2014, he was the economic officer at the Canadian embassy. Prior to that, he worked at Shengyin Wanguo Securities and Guosen Securities in Hong Kong. Chen Long is a Beijinger and graduated from Peking University.