After a year of intense flirtation, the Sino-Russian relationship is beginning to look like a one-sided love affair. Indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China last week—his first since the United States and European Union enacted sectoral sanctions against Russia after Malaysian Airline Flight 17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine in July of 2014—marked a year of frustrated ambitions in China for the Kremlin.
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A primer on the Uighurs, the repression they face in China and their presence abroad.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed concern about the detention and interrogation of more than 100 lawyers in China.
The Justice Department dropped all charges against Mr. Xi, the chairman of Temple University's physics department.
A Chinese think-tank will host a forum with officials from six countries on North Korea's banned nuclear weapons programme.
On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the US, a China expert lays out how the two great powers can avoid confrontation.
United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) member states should press China to account for a Chinese activist's detention and death.
The interpretation of history is an inherently political act in China, and the struggle for control of the narrative of the War of Resistance Against Japan—World War II—has heated up during the approach to the September 3 parade commemorating the Japanese surrender. Joining the Sinica hosts to talk about changing interpretations of World War II and the big military parade in front of Tiananmen is Rana Mitter, professor of modern Chinese history at Oxford University and the author of two books on twentieth century Chinese history: “Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II 1937-1945” and “A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World.”
In late July, Chinese authorities renewed travel privileges for conceptual artist and political activist Ai Weiwei, ending a five-year prohibition following his arrest in 2011. He promptly flew to Munich and then Berlin, where he has accepted a three-year guest professorship at the city’s University of the Arts.
