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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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09.02.14China’s Hong Kong Mistake
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The Beijing government has rejected demands for free, open elections for Hong Kong’s next chief executive, in 2017, enraging protesters who had called for broad rights to nominate candidates.
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06.04.14Tiananmen at Twenty-Five: "Victory Over Memory"
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Today, technology and globalism are prying open the lives of China’s people. But, in matters of politics and history, the Party is determined to silence even the “few flies” that Deng Xiaoping once described as a bearable side effect of an open...
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05.21.14“The Big Bang Theory” and Our Future with China
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The United States has never faced a rival whose ordinary people lead lives that have so much in common with ours in America. (The Soviets did not get Carson.)
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05.05.14A New Kind of Spy
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Greg Chung worked on NASA’s space-shuttle program. Then, in 2010, he became the first American to be convicted of economic espionage. He was eager to help China: “He has a big heart,” his wife said.
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03.11.14After 3/1: The Dangers of China’s Ethnic Divide
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The pressure posed by ethnic unrest is the biggest story on the Chinese horizon, and that struggle—the pressure from below, and the response it will bring—just moved into the foreground.
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01.24.14Why China Needs to Rethink the Way It Treats the Foreign Press
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A new report on elite wealth by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists suggests Beijing may need to change its whack-a-mole strategy of removing offending reporters one by one.
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01.21.14The Trial of the Chinese Dream
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Xu Zhiyong tried to change China from the inside, but now he will be tried by the inside.
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01.18.14The Trial of the Chinese Dream
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The fate of Xu Zhiyong is a stark measure of change in China’s political culture. On January 22, Xu will go to court, in Beijing, where prosecutors are preparing to try him on the charge of “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order.”
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01.09.14Confucius Comes Home
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In my fifth year in Beijing, I moved into a one-story brick house beside the Confucius Temple, a seven-hundred-year-old shrine to China’s most important philosopher.
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10.25.13In China, Can Plutocrats Have Political Opinions?
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China’s men and women who have made it to the top of society by being unrelentingly determined are advised by the government to relent when it comes to calling for the rule of law, adherence to the constitution, or an end to abuses of power.&...
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10.15.13‘Where Are the Riots?’: China Watches the Shutdown
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In China’s social media - what amounts to China’s largest and most liberal classroom - microbloggers are taking the opportunity to teach one another the difference between federal and local authority in America and the protections, and perils, of...
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09.05.13Why Do Pandas Have Such Difficulty Breeding in Zoos
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Giant pandas in captivity are described as simply “reproductively incompetent” by David Wildt, the head of the Center for Species Survival at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. What will it take to get them to bone up on their sex ed?
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09.03.13Censorship, Sex, and the Bo Xilai Trial
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By allowing the ousted politician to have a say at all, and by releasing portions of the daily transcript the Party has highlighted its progressiveness and successfully deflected attention from the theatrical nature of a masterfully choreographed...