Environment
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China-Backed Hydropower Project Could Disturb a Sensitive Siberian Ecosystem
from Rivers without Boundaries
Lake Baikal contains 20 percent of the world’s freshwater resources and affects the regional climate of North Asia and the Arctic Basin. The lake is home to 2,500 aquatic species and local communities in Mongolia and Russia revere the lake as the “...
China in the World Podcast
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View from Moscow: China’s Westward March
from Carnegie China
China and Russia are solidifying their bilateral relationship as the former looks westward and the latter turns to its east borders. In this podcast with Paul Haenle, Dmitri Trenin discusses the conditions that are leading to stronger China-Russian...
Environment
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Why China's Nuclear Exports May Struggle to Find a Market
from chinadialogue
China’s nuclear power industry has eyed up a big push to export its technologies as countries around the world consider low-carbon alternatives to coal.But despite an increasingly clearer field for Chinese nuclear exports—mainly because of the woes...
Environment
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Book: ‘Black Dragon River’—Russia’s Wild Window into China
from chinadialogue
Russia’s Far East is supposedly a strategically important area for President Vladimir Putin’s administration, with the government repeatedly declaring that development of the remote territory is one of its top priorities. But, as any Russian expert...
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03.22.16Russia Deals Deepen India Hold in China Oil-Buying Backyard
Bloomberg
India is replacing China as the center of the world’s oil demand growth as its economy expands faster than any other major country.
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02.10.16Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border
New Yorker
Is the new friendship between Russia and China real?
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02.09.16Invisible Bridges
New Yorker
Over the past two centuries, there have been periodic tensions between Russia and China, including some serious border conflicts, and historically Russia has usually held the upper hand. But nowadays, at the personal level, Monteleone notices a...
Postcard
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A People’s Friendship
It takes a brave man to jump off a moving train for the sake of a sale, but the clothes hawkers had the easy courage of men who did this on the regular. I watched as they leapt off the front carriage as the train chugged into a station with no stop...
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12.25.15China and Russia’s Orwellian attacks on Internet freedom
Washington Post
Xi Jinping’s recent speech suggests that China won’t give up nudging global Internet governance toward the “sovereignty” model.
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11.06.15The China-Russia-Mongolia Trilateral Gains Steam
Diplomat
The Asian trilateral no one talks about is seeing some interesting new developments.
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10.21.15Space: China Plays the Russia Card?
Diplomat
Russian engines could offer China a fast track for its ICBM capability building.
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10.16.15A Remote Corner of China Wants Access to the Sea. The Obstacle Is North Korea.
Washington Post
You can almost smell the sea air from here, at the point where China, Russia and North Korea meet.
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10.14.15China Says Not Planning to Send Military Ships to Syria
Reuters
China said it had no plans to send military ships to Syria to fight with Russian forces.
Features
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Sino-Russian Trade After a Year of Sanctions
from Carnegie Moscow Center
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...
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08.21.15China Says More than 10 Countries to Join Unprecedented WW II Military Parade
Reuters
Russia and Kazakhstan are among those countries joining a parade in Beijing in September to commemorate China's WWII victory over Japan.
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07.01.15China Parliament Ratifies BRICS Bank Agreement
Reuters
The BRICS Bank, is one of two international development banks that China is promoting as an alternative to western institutions such as the World Bank.
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07.01.15Russia Delivers Submarine To Vietnam For Defense Over South China Sea Dispute
International Business Times
The submarines are Vietnam's effort to deter China's military from building up in the South China Sea.
The NYRB China Archive
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In North Korea: Wonder & Terror
from New York Review of Books
The northeast of China used to be called Manchuria. Another name was “the cockpit of Asia.” Many wars were fought there. A French priest who traveled through the region in the 1920s wrote: “Although it is uncertain where God created paradise, we can...
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05.08.15As Russia Remembers War in Europe, Guest of Honor Is From China
New York Times
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is an imperfect symbol of the wartime past and an uncertain one for Russia’s future.
The China Africa Project
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The BRICS Bank: China’s Drive to Shake Up Development Finance
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (aka the ‘BRICS’) are moving forward with an ambitious plan to shake up the clubby world of development finance. The new BRICS bank announced over the summer 2014 is expected to have a profound impact on...
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09.02.14China Opposes Proposed EU Sanctions Against Russia
Reuters
EU proposed sanctions against Russia over accusations Moscow was sending troops into Ukrainian territory, saying the European Union's push to draw up more measures would only complicate the crisis.
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09.02.14Mongolia's ‘Rebalance’ Towards Russia and China
Deutsche Welle
In a bid to boost its ailing economy, Mongolia is refocusing its foreign policy on its traditional partners Russia and China. But experts warn Ulan Bator runs the risk of becoming increasingly dependent.
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05.21.14Russia Signs 30-Year Gas Deal with China
BBC
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has signed a multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China, 10 years in the making, and worth some $400 billion.
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04.25.14The Chinese Take Manhattan: Replace Russians as Top Apartment Buyers
Reuters
Many Chinese buyers are switching their interest away from markets like Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore amid fears that prices have soared to frothy levels in those cities.
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04.23.14Russia, China Block Central African Republic Blacklistings at U.N.
Reuters
The United States and France proposed U.N. sanctions of former Central African Republic President Francois Bozize for "engaging in or providing support for acts that undermine the peace, stability or security."
Caixin Media
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Crimea Rattles the Chinese Dream
At the Sochi Winter Olympics, President Xi Jinping professed his affection for Russian letters. Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, and other literary giants made up the reading list of his youth, and his generation was raised on a diet of Russian culture...
Media
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Why Chinese Media Is Going Soft on Sochi
Ready or not, Putingrad (aka Sochi) is now on prime time. The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics will take place in the subtropical Russian resort town on February 7. In the Twittersphere, Western journalists and visitors have assailed Sochi’s...
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10.23.13Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia
New York Times
He also asserted that he was able to protect the documents from China’s spies because he was familiar with that nation’s intelligence abilities, saying that as an N.S.A. contractor he had taught a course on Chinese...
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09.11.13U.S. Giving China a Free Pass on Syria
Politico
As American officials bitterly denounce Russia for blocking the United Nations from endorsing action over Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons, another global power that has taken a similar stand seems to be getting a free pass from the U.S:...
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08.29.13China’s Voyage of Discovery to Cross the Less Frozen North
Guardian
Global warming means that the Arctic's fabled Northern Sea Route could soon be ice-free in summer, slashing journey times for cargo ships sailing from the Far East to Europe. Which is why the Yong Sheng, a rust-streaked Chinese vessel, is on a...
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08.21.13Where Is China’s Gorbachev?
Atlantic
Why China hasn't had—and isn't likely to have—a political reformer in the mold of the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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08.05.13China Media on the Snowden Saga
BBC
Media in China see further embarrassment for the United States after whistleblower Edward Snowden gets temporary asylum in Russia.
Viewpoint
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China at the Tipping Point?
What will be the future of China’s authoritarian political system?Many predicted that China’s rapid development over the past several decades would inevitably lead to gradual liberalization. Economic growth was expected to generate a cascade of...
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06.25.13Putin: Snowden Still At Airport, Won’t Be Extradited
Washington Post
Putin said Snowden arrived in Moscow unexpectedly and had committed no crime in Russia. He has not crossed into a part of the airport that requires him to show his passport to Russian authorities. Because Russia does not have an extradition...
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06.24.13Snowden, in Russia, Seeks Asylum in Ecuador
New York Times
The foreign minister of Ecuador confirmed receiving an asylum request from Mr. Snowden. As of early Monday morning in Russia, Mr. Snowden was believed to be staying the night inside the transit zone of a Moscow airport where he was visited by an...
Sinica Podcast
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Xi Jinping Goes to Russia
from Sinica Podcast
Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow earlier this week, his first journey abroad as China’s new Head of State, has raised interesting questions about China’s ambitions in Asia, and coupled with Washington’s “pivot to Asia” is resurrecting the specter of a...
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03.26.13A Highly Public Trip For China’s President, And Its First Lady
New York Times
President Xi Jinping, accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, is on his March2013 inaugural overseas trip. The trip started in Russia last week, and is now passing through Africa with stops in Tanzania, the Republic of Congo and South Africa...
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03.15.13Xi Pivots To Moscow
Foreign Policy
Will Xi’s late March 2013 trip to Vladimir Putin’s Russia -- a bastion of authoritarian state capitalism -- symbolically define China’s path ahead, like Deng’s 1979 U.S. tour?
Environment
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Russia’s Siberian Dams Power “Electric Boilers” in Beijing
from chinadialogue
The underdeveloped, sparsely populated Eastern Siberia region that shares a 4,000-kilometer border with China has vast resources to offer its heavily populated and fast-developing neighbor. Hydroelectricity is key among them.A major new...
Environment
11.02.12Clampdown on Gold Dredging in China Sees Switch to Mongolia and Russia
from chinadialogue
The Heilongjiang basin, in northeast China, was attracting gold prospectors as early as the late Qing dynasty, which collapsed in 1912. Panning for gold is damaging for rivers and wetlands, but at the time the region was sparsely populated and only...
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05.23.02There Were Worse Places
from New York Review of Books
In the mid-1980s I made occasional trips to Harbin in Manchuria to report on the Orthodox White Russians who lived there, the remnant of a community that had fled from the new Soviet Union after the revolution. There were once so many of them that...