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01.27.14A Dream Deferred
Foreign Policy
The challenge the ICIJ expose poses to Xi's reputation as an anti-corruption crusader, is a vindication of Xu's advocacy.
Features
01.26.14For Freedom, Justice, and Love
from China Change
Following is legal activist Xu Zhiyong’s closing statement at the end of his trial in Beijing on January 22, 2014. According to his lawyer, Xu was only able to read “about ten minutes of it before the presiding judge stopped him, saying it was...
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01.25.14Li Na Beats Cibulkova to Win Australian Open Title in Her 3rd Appearance in the Final
Associated Press
Li Na made beat Dominika Cibulkova 7-6 (3), 6-0 the Australian Open final on January 25 to become the oldest woman to clinch the title in the Open era.
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01.24.14China Loses its Allure
Economist
Life is getting tougher for foreign companies. Those that want to stay will have to adjust.
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01.24.14Abe Comparing China to Pre-World War One Germany Fuels Tensions
Businessweek
China said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was evading Japan’s “history of aggression” by comparing Sino-Japanese relations to those of the U.K. and Germany prior to World War I.
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01.24.14China Media: Xi's Chinese New Year Greetings
BBC
President Xi Jinping said the Communist Party of China “firmly relying on the people, including non-communist members, defeated various challenges and difficulties in the last year and achieved outstanding results.”
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01.24.14Why China Needs to Rethink the Way It Treats the Foreign Press
New Yorker
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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01.24.14Malaria Eradication—Cure All?
Economist
A novel approach, using drugs from a South China company, instead of insecticides, may make it easier to eliminate malaria. But it is not without controversy.
Sinica Podcast
01.24.14Talking About Taiwan
from Sinica Podcast
This week on Sinica, Kaiser Kuo is joined by David Moser and Paul Mozur for an in-depth discussion about everyone’s favorite renegade province. This is a lively conversation that stretches from questions of Taiwanese personal identity to its media...
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01.23.14Survey: Fewer Americans Support the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty
Asahi Shimbun
Some observors say the decline may be due to a reluctance to involve the U.S. in Sino-Japanese disputes.
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01.23.14Investigative Stories Delve Into the Use of Offshore Companies by Chinese
New York Times
This year's first big China investigative story has come from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
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01.23.14Senior Diplomat William Burns in China Amid Tension Over Beijing’s Military Development, Island Disputes
CBS News
The meeting was seen as helpful in clearing up misunderstanding, but nothing in the way of significant progress.
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01.23.14Amid China’s Anti-Extravagance Sweep
Wall Street Journal
Chinese hotels are downgrading to attract business from officials who are limited by “morality” campaigns.
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01.23.14“Chinaleaks” Stories Censored in Mainland China
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Chinese authorities blocked online access to news reports exposing the secrecy-cloaked offshore holdings of China's political and financial elites.
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01.23.14Report Says China’s Elite Use Offshore Companies
New York Times
The report names many of China's wealthiest citizens, as well as relatives of Xi Jinping, Wen Jiabao, and descendants of the CCP's founders.
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01.22.14China Cannot Relax War on Corruption
Financial Times
(Editorial) “We should not dismiss the way Mr. Xi is trying to deal with the problem.”
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01.22.14China’s Scandal-Torn Oil Industry Embraces Tax Havens
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
“If there’s a problem you can just close the company, walk away and deny you ever had anything to do with it.”
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01.22.14Report Links Chinese Elite to Offshore Tax Havens
Associated Press
Attention is on President Xi Jinping's family and its wealth at a time when Xi has emphasized fighting corruption.
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01.22.14How the Chinese Internet Ended Up at a House in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Washington Post
In trying to block Chinese traffic going to Sophidea, the Great Firewall's operators accidentally diverted more traffic there.
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01.22.14China Mobilizes Cyber-cops After Leak on Elite Overseas Wealth
Global Post
(Op-ed) “surprising behavior from a government that says it really wants transparency to flush out corruption.”
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01.22.14Epiphanies from Kevin Rudd
Foreign Policy
Former prime minister who spent time with Xi Jinping notes the importance of language proficiency.
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01.22.14More Than Half of China’s Most Powerful Officials Have Links to Tax Havens. Now What?
Quartz
Relatively loose cencorship of the recent offshore tax reports has some thinking that the CCP is ready to talk.
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01.22.14ICIJ Offshore Records Reveal Tax Haven Clients in China, Hong Kong
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
More than 50 reporting partners in Europe, North America, Asia and other regions investigated 2.5 million leaked files.
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01.22.14How We Did Offshore Leaks China
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Chinese, European and Western journalists worked together to successfully leak a highly sensitive and secretive story.
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01.22.14China's Princelings Storing Riches in Caribbean Offshore Haven
Guardian
The documents also disclose the central role of major Western banks and accountancy firms who acted as middlemen.
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01.22.14Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The data illustrates the outsized dependency of China's economy on tiny islands thousands of miles away.
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01.22.14China’s Temporary-Worker Ploy
New York Times
Scandals are often blamed on lin shi gong, or “temporary workers," but why have they been hired in the first place?
Conversation
01.21.14Time to Escalate? Should the U.S. Make China Uncomfortable?
How should the United States respond to China’s new level of assertiveness in the Asia Pacific? In the past few months as Beijing has stepped up territorial claims around China's maritime borders—and in the skies above them—the Obama...
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01.21.14The Trial of the Chinese Dream
New Yorker
Xu Zhiyong tried to change China from the inside, but now he will be tried by the inside.
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01.21.14How a PLA General Built a Web of Corruption to Amass a Fortune
More than twenty policemen lined up at the gate of a massive mansion in a village in the central province of Henan at midnight on January 12, 2013, loading heavy crates onto two military trucks.Hours later—loaded with twenty crates of expensive...
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01.18.14China’s Detention of Uighur Professor Ilham Tohti Worries U.S.
Los Angeles Times
The U.S. government and human rights activists are voicing concern about the detention of a professor who has been an outspoken advocate for China’s Uighur minority group.
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01.18.14China, Japan Slug It Out in World’s Press
Associated Press
Escalating disputes between Japan and China are spilling onto newspaper opinion pages around the globe as the rivals try to sway attitudes abroad and placate nationalist fervor at home.
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01.18.14Left-Behind Children of China’s Migrant Workers Bear Grown-Up Burdens
Wall Street Journal
About 61 Million Chinese Kids Haven’t Seen One or Both Parents for at Least Three Months
Media
01.17.14You’ve Got Mail: Chinese Communist Party Received Almost Two Million Complaints in 2013
In 2013, China’s Communist Party disciplinary organs received an eye-popping 1.95 million citizen complaints about officials. This is a 49.2 percent jump from 2012, according to a January 13 report from state-run website China News Online—but...
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01.16.14Chinese Activists Test New Leader and Are Crushed
New York Times
Prominent activist, Xi Zhiyong, is indicted in a harsh warning to the New Citizens Movement.
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01.16.14Spring Festival Gala Performance by Chinese Rock Icon in Doubt
New York Times
The popularity and pizzazz of China's “Godfather of Rock” is not worth the political risk for CCTV.
Books
01.16.14Debating China
America and China are the two most powerful players in global affairs, and no relationship is more consequential. How they choose to cooperate and compete affects billions of lives. But U.S.-China relations are complex and often delicate, featuring a multitude of critical issues that America and China must navigate together. Missteps could spell catastrophe.In Debating China, Nina Hachigian pairs American and Chinese experts in collegial “letter exchanges” that illuminate this multi-dimensional and complex relationship. These fascinating conversations—written by highly respected scholars and former government officials from the U.S. and China—provide an invaluable dual perspective on such crucial issues as trade and investment, human rights, climate change, military dynamics, regional security in Asia, and the media, including the Internet. The engaging dialogue between American and Chinese experts gives readers an inside view of how both sides see the key challenges. Readers bear witness to the writers’ hopes and frustrations as they explore the politics, values, history, and strategic frameworks that inform their positions. This unique volume is perfect for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of U.S.-China relations today.—Oxford University Press{chop}{node, 4406, 4}
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01.16.14In Rare Video, Wife of Jailed Nobel Laureate Reads Poems While Under House Arrest
New York Times
The video was filmed by the Independent Chinese PEN Center, a free-speech advocacy group established by Ms. Liu.
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01.16.14China Playing a Long Game in Polar Governance
World Politics Review
The recent Antarctic rescue of a Russian vessel highlights China's comprehensive polar strategy.
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01.15.14Found in Translation: King’s ‘Dream’ Plays in Beijing
New York Times
The CCP emphasizes American history of inequality while leaving out points of domestic overlap.
Viewpoint
01.14.14Xi, Mao, and China’s Search for a Usable Past
Since its founding, the United States has had understandable pride in its great achievements, but also has had to reckon with its complex moral history—beginning but hardly ending with the fact that our original Constitution accepted the evil of...
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01.14.14Though I am Gone
Fast Company
(Vid) Wang Jingyao chronicles the murder of his wife, the first victim of the Cultural Revolution.
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01.14.14‘Cultural Threats’ Among Five Focuses of New National Security Panel, Colonel Says
South China Morning Post
Government committee is established to manage western threats to cyber and national security.
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01.14.14Bowed and Remorseful, Former Red Guard Recalls Teacher’s Death
New York Times
“How a country faces the future depends in large part on how it faces its past,” said former Red Gaurd in public apology for past violence.
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01.13.14Far Eastern Antipathies
Foreign Affairs
Japan must reckon with England as an eventual addition to the enormous political strength of China and Russia.
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01.13.14Why Does China Coddle North Korea?
New York Times
A larger crisis on the Korean peninsula would require Chinese involvement.
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01.13.14The New York Times Hires Michael Forsythe
New York Times
Forsythe left Bloomberg after writing an article that threatened the Publication's presence in China.
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01.13.14Leading the Battle for Reform
The turn of the year brought news that President Xi Jinping will take the helm of the new leading group for overall reform.This group is a key part of China’s reform drive. As soon as its formation was announced at the Third Plenum of the Communist...
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01.13.14New Detail Emerges About Bo Xilai’s Downfall
New York Times
Sanlian Life said Australian reporter, John Garnaut, was involved in the Bo Xilai case.
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01.13.14White House Responds to Jimmy Kimmel’s China Controversy
Variety
A joke concerning the killing of Chinese people to avoid paying down U.S. debt was said live on ABC.
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01.10.14As Cannabis is Widely Legalized, China Cashes in on an Unprecedented Boom
Independent
Almost 5,000 years ago, Chinese physicians recommended a tea made from cannabis leaves to treat a wide variety of conditions including gout and malaria.
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01.09.14Major Leadership Shake-Up at China Film Group
Hollywood Reporter
La Peikang will take over from Han Sanping as the new head of the all-powerful state-backed film company, in a rare power transition for the Chinese industry.
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01.09.14Bremmer: China, Japan 2014’s Most Dangerous Spat
Wall Street Journal
Political-risk expert Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group calls the bilateral conflict between China and Japan the "greatest geopolitical danger in the world in 2014" and discusses what reform means for China under new leader Xi Jinping.
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01.09.14China Renews Western Journalists’ Visas After Months-Long Standoff
Washington Post
Several Western journalists who faced expulsion from China were issued renewed visas by the Chinese government, ending a months-long standoff. But China is still on track to force at least one New York Times reporter to leave for the second year in...
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01.09.14Confucius Comes Home
New Yorker
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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01.09.14China: Reeducation Through Horror
from New York Review of Books
Here are two snippets from a Chinese Communist journal called People’s China, published in August 1956:In 1956, despite the worst natural calamities in scores of years, China’s peasants, newly organized in co-operatives on a nation-wide scale,...
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01.08.14Why are China and Japan Accusing Each Other of Being Voldemort?
Christian Science Monitor
Ill-tempered media exchanges between the Chinese and Japanese ambassadors to London invoked the universal cultural icon to embellish attacks over islands in the Asia-Pacific.
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01.08.14What Could Happen in China in 2014?
McKinsey & Company
Gordon Orr predicts corporate focus on driving productivity, increased interest in CIOs, bankrupt shopping malls, and European investment in Chinese soccer clubs.
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01.08.14Moon Landing ‘100pc Made in China,’ says Xi Jinping
South China Morning Post
Contrary to Xi's claims, scientists have noted that the design of the moon rover has borrowed heavily from previous Soviet and American versions.
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01.08.14Guardian Website Blocked in China
New York Times
The newspaper said that it may be due to a recently run article about ethnic tensions in the western region of Xinjiang.