Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Plantan compares and contrasts Russia’s and China’s foreign NGO-related legislation. Though both laws had a similar set of motivations driving their creation, Plantan shows key differences in the drafting processes as well as in the governments’ public discussion of foreign NGOs.
On August 9, U.S. President Donald Trump warned North Korea that if it does not stop threatening the United States, it will be “met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.” Just hours later, the North Korean army said in a statement that it is “carefully examining” a plan to strike the waters around Guam, a U.S. Pacific territory which hosts a large American military base. And while it’s unclear if Pyongyang was responding to Trump’s comments, or whether both countries are engaged mainly in a battle of inflammatory rhetoric, the possibility of a military conflict between the United States and North Korea now appears more likely than it has been in decades. As it often does in moments of high tension, China’s Foreign Ministry called on all relevant parties to avoid the possibility of intensifying conflict or “escalating the situation with words or actions” and continue to pursue a “political solution.” Should tensions between the U.S. and North Korea continue to worsen, or in the still unlikely event of a military conflict, what is China likely to do and what should it do?
China has told the Trump administration to tread carefully in a spat over aluminum exports if it wants to avoid damaging the relationship between the world’s two largest economies. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Thursday disputed U.S. suggestions that Chinese aluminum foil shipments are unfairly subsidized.
A U.S. warship sailed close to a Chinese man-made island in the disputed the South China Sea in an operation that challenged China’s vast territorial claims in busy international waters, a U.S. Navy official said Thursday.
With America’s Asian allies unnerved by President Trump’s threat to bring “fire and fury” to North Korea, China sees a chance to capitalize on the fear and confusion and emerge as the sober-minded power in the region, according to analysts who study the Chinese leadership.
Dalian Wanda, the Chinese conglomerate that owns the AMC movie theater chain and nurtures Hollywood ambitions, has sometimes turned to the secretive business network of a politically connected Chinese billionaire in times of need. Now both Wanda and that billionaire, Xiao Jianhua, are under official pressure in China — and one Wanda insider says that may not be a coincidence.
It is an open secret that a significant number of North Korean laborers work in China and Russia in border cities, especially in Siberia. But owing to minimal record-keeping, little is known about the workers’ presence or activities
In the latest of the increasingly intense war of words, Pyongyang said it would prepare a plan by mid-August to strike the U.S. territory of Guam with intermediate missiles, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Thursday.
Over the last several years, Russia and China have developed strikingly parallel laws on the management of foreign NGOs and foreign support of domestic civil society. While regular visitors to this site are familiar with the 2017 Foreign NGO Law in China, they may be less aware of two similar laws in Russia: the 2012 law on “foreign agents” and 2015 law on “undesirable” organizations.
Ryan Hass is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He served as Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia at the National Security Council from 2013 to 2017.
