Skeletons of 5,000-Year-Old Chinese ‘Giants’ Discovered by Archaeologists
on July 5, 2017
Archaeologists in eastern China have found 5,000-year-old skeletons of people experts say would have been unusually tall and strong.
US, China Divided over How to Deal with New North Korean ICBM Threat
on July 5, 2017
A paradigm-changing North Korean missile test has left the United States and China split over how to deal with the aggressive rogue state.
China Shadow Banking Is Slowing amid More Coordinated Government Measures, Says Moody’s
on July 4, 2017
Growth in shadow banking in China is slowing due to coordinated government action to contain systemic financial risks, a development that will benefit banks, although it will also bring adjustment risks.
China Says It Has Invited Foreign Physicians to Treat Imprisoned Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
on July 4, 2017
The judicial bureau for the northeastern city of Shenyang said Wednesday in an online statement that Liu’s family members made a request for foreign experts and Liu’s medical team agreed. Liu, China’s best-known political prisoner, is being treated at a Shenyang hospital for late-stage liver cancer diagnosed in late May.
Chinese Media Says India Needs to Be Taught a 'Bitter Lesson' over Its Border Dispute
on July 4, 2017
An editorial that ran in China's Global Times Tuesday has ramped up the rhetoric in an ongoing military dispute along a portion of the Sino-Indian border.
The Shuidong Connection
Exposing the Global Hub of the Illegal Ivory Trade
on July 1, 2017
An Environmental Investigation Agency investigation in Mozambique revealed a Chinese-led criminal syndicate which for over two decades has been trafficking ivory from Africa to Shuidong, its hometown in southern China. According to this syndicate, it is just one of about 10 to 20 similar groups originating from Shuidong. Their criminal exploits reveal how their small hometown has become, and remains, the world’s largest hub for ivory trafficking: the group claims up to 80 percent of tusks from poached elephants in Africa pass through Shuidong.
China has taken significant steps to close its legal domestic ivory market in the past year. This is a positive move by a country with one of the biggest ivory markets and demonstrates leadership and pragmatism. However, there remain serious questions on the lack of enforcement in China, and abroad, against Chinese nationals deeply involved in the illegal ivory trade, who continue to operate with complete impunity.
Organization:
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)