Longtime China hand Peter Loehr will exit Beijing-based Legendary East at the end of the month, leaving another senior post to be filled at Dalian Wanda-owned Legendary Entertainment after the recent departure of founder Thomas Tull.
Lotus Ruan is a researcher at The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Her research focuses on the roles of government and private actors in shaping Internet governance agendas and digital rights. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and Tech in Asia.
The Center for Charity Law at Beijing Normal University’s China Philanthropy Research Institute (CPRI), which runs a Foreign NGO Registration Support Program, issued a bilingual set of FAQs addressing 30 common questions related to foreign NGO Registration, temporary activity filing, and general operations under the new law. Their answers are drawn from seminars (presumably with the Ministry of Public Security) as well as their own recent experience assisting foreign NGOs in the new legal environment.
China-watching isn’t what it used to be. Not too long ago, the field of international China studies was dominated by a few male Westerners with an encyclopedic knowledge of China, but with surprisingly little experience living in the country or speaking Chinese.
As part of the fact-checking process for our FAQ on Ministry of Public Security (MPS) contact information—and keeping in mind previous reports that the National-level MPS Foreign NGO Management office initially didn’t have anyone answering the phone, The China NGO Project called all of the provincial Public Security Bureau Foreign NGO Management Offices to verify the listed phone numbers were correct and that an employees would pick up at the other end.
Blake Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan. He studies how government actors in modern states manipulate information using misinformation, trolls, astroturfers, propaganda, censorship, mass-surveillance, and digital repression. His research utilizes natural language processing, computer vision, and statistical machine learning tools for the study of political content encoded in unstructured text, image, audio, and video data.
Moon Jae-in, the newly elected leader of South Korea, moved swiftly to mend ties with China on Thursday, announcing plans to dispatch a delegation to Beijing to resolve a festering dispute over the deployment of an American missile-defense system in his country.
According to an estimate by the Asian Development Bank, there is a funding gap of US$26 trillion for the infrastructure projects that will be required in Asia by 2030. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is designed to help meet this shortfall, but the plans for the belt and road scheme raise the question of how it will meet its funding demands.
The conspicuous absence of the heads of state from the major Western economic powers and Japan at the belt and road summit this month in Beijing is a big mistake and a missed opportunity for enhancing dynamic and cooperative globalisation.
Sri Lanka has rejected China’s request to dock one of its submarines in Colombo this month, two senior government officials said on Thursday as the Indian prime minister who worries about growing Chinese activity in a country it has long viewed as part of its area of influence landed in the island nation.
