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10.25.12Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
New York Times
Wen Jiabao's son, daughter, younger brother and brother-in-law have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership.
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10.25.12
Who Was Mao Zedong?
from New York Review of Books
In Kashgar’s largest bazaar a few years ago, I spotted a pencil holder sporting an iconic Cultural Revolution image: Mao Zedong and Marshal Lin Biao smiling together. But Mao’s personally chosen heir apparent had been a nonperson since 1971, when he...
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10.24.12A Test Case for the Communist Party’s Commitment to Reform
Wall Street Journal
Critics say the Party can't hold power much longer if fundamental reforms are not introduced – a notion echoed by an essay in the latest issue of the CCP’s own theoretical journal, Seeking Truth.
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10.23.12China Reshuffles Top Military
Reuters
Outgoing air force commander General Xu Qiliang, 62, promoted to vice-chairman of the military's top decision-making body.
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10.23.12Better Ways to Deal with China
New York Times
Pushing China around like a bulked-up version of 1980s Japan doesn't fit a long-term U.S. objective: drawing China into the club of prosperous, rule-bound and democratic nations.
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10.23.12China Hints at Reform by Dropping Mao Wording
Reuters
Dropping Mao's name from policy statements hints that the Communist Party may move toward reform.
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10.23.12Candidates Debate Rise of China; China Debates Reform
Deal Book
China's presumptive next president, Xi Jinping, may wish his economy were the juggernaut many Americans think it is. He will inherit an economy in desperate need of reform and rebalancing. As discussed in an earlier China...
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10.22.12China media: Quiet on Communist Party Congress, gaga for U.S. election
Los Angeles Times
The two U.S. presidential candidates turned China into a political football. The "China-bashing" hasn't gone unnoticed in China media.
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10.22.12Five Debate-Worthy Facts about China
NPR
The last U.S. Presidential debate will focus on foreign policy and is sure to discuss Chinese relations.
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10.22.12China hints at move to strengthen Communist rule
Reuters
Xinhua says China's ruling Communist Party will discuss a proposal aimed at strengthening one-party rule over the next five years.
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10.21.12Many Urge China’s Next Leader to Liberalize
New York Times
After it was leaked that Xi Jinping, the man anointed to be the next Communist Party chief of China, had met in private with a well-known supporter of political liberalization, the capital’s elite began to buzz about the import of...
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10.21.12Europe and China Don't Need a Trade War: EU Trade Chief
Reuters
De Gucht says EU won't back down from fight againt unfair Chinese competition, but mutual self-interest will prevent trade war.
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10.20.12"The Revolutionary": An Unrequited Love for China
NPR
In a new documentary on his life, Sidney Rittenberg, who once translated for Mao, refers to his jailer as both a hero and criminal.
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10.20.12China Is Wary of U.S. Candidates’ Tough Talk
New York Times
Concern among Chinese officials, executives and academics is growing that U.S. attidudes toward China won't cool post-Election Day.
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10.20.12Video: A Visit with Ai Weiwei
New Yorker
Earlier this year, we invited the artist Ai Weiwei to visit the United States to take part in the New Yorker Festival, held in early October. At the time, the Chinese government had barred Ai from traveling abroad—an unofficial form of punishment...
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10.19.12The Creation Myth of Xi Jinping
Foreign Policy
If every modern president needs a creation myth, then Xi Jinping's begins on the dusty loess plateau of northwest China. It was here that Xi spent seven formative years, working among the peasants and living in a lice-infested cave dug...
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10.19.12
Flying Splinters
Liu Futang expressed a sense of foreboding just before his recent arrest by posting a microblog entry that began, “If one day I’m invited out for tea, please don’t worry about me.”“Drink tea” is a euphemism in China for an unwanted interrogation by...
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10.18.12Huntsman Speaks Out
Foreign Policy
Since withdrawing from the Republican primaries in January, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman has tried to stay engaged with China, where he served as Barack Obama's ambassador from 2009-2011. But China hasn't always...
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10.18.12Radio: Shanghai Residents Discuss U.S. Presidential Debate
NPR
Eight Chinese watched and discussed Tuesday's U.S. presidential debate at the NPR Shanghai bureau.
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10.18.12
Cyber Detente Between the United States and China
EastWest Institute
In May 2012, the United States and China agreed publicly for the first time to begin talks on military aspects of cybersecurity. The agenda and expectations for this process at the official level remain to be set. Through Track 2 processes some very...
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10.17.12State TV Host Apologizes for Cursing American Reporter. Or Does He?
Wall Street Journal
China Central TV host Yang Rui apologized for calling a female U.S. journalist a “bitch” in a xenophobic rant.
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10.17.12A Time-honored Tradition: Election Year and China-bashing
Washington Post
China's two decade explosive growth overshadows a struggling corruption-plagued communist state.
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10.17.12U.S. Presidential Debate Sees Candidates Flex China Muscle
Xinhua
Although the yuan rose nearly 30 percent since 2005, U.S. politicians are still taking jabs at China's currency regime.
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10.17.12Chinese elite politics: It's still a man's world
Associated Press
It's easier for a Chinese woman to orbit Earth than land a spot atop Chinese politics.
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10.17.12Analysis: Lost in Debate - Reality of U.S.-China Ties
Associated Press
U.S. presidential politics vilifying China obscures how deeply entwined the two countries have become.
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10.16.12China and Its Trade Tactics are Coming to the Debates
New York Times
China's economic relations with U.S. could feature hotly in next Presidential debate.
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10.15.12Romney Can Invoke Japan Overtaking China as U.S. Lender
Bloomberg
China is poised to lose its place as the U.S.’s biggest creditor for the first time since the height of the financial crisis, blunting one of Mitt Romney’s favored attacks in the presidential campaign.
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10.15.12American Politics and Chinese Data
Deal Book
In the midst of increasingly heated election rhetoric about China, Beijing has released some important economic data as its currency hits record highs. Both Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul D. Ryancriticized...
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10.15.12Is Mo Yan a Stooge for the Chinese Government?
Rectified.name
Even before the Swedish Academy announced Mo Yan as the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner, the Chinese internet was abuzz with discussion of his work and his relationship with the Chinese government.
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10.14.12Against Backdrop of Dispute with China, Japan Shows Off Navy
Associated Press
Japan’s navy marked 60th year with major exercise, showing off maritime strength amid territorial dispute with China.
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10.13.12Blind Chinese Activist Says Nephew Could Face Unfair Trial
Reuters
Chen Guangcheng said Chinese police sent his nephew, charged with knife attack, to state prosecutor, paving way for unfair trial.
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10.13.12Ryan Criticizes Obama Administration China Policy
New York Times
Romney Republican running mate slams President for delaying report on currency manipulation.
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10.12.12Mo Yan Calls for Liu Xiaobo’s Release
New York Times
Mo Yan, the new Nobel laureate who strenuously avoided antagonizing the Communist Party during much of his literary career, stepped into a political minefield on Friday by calling for the release of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned writer and...
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10.12.12New Details of How Wife of Chinese Politician Thought She Was Poisoned
New York Times
The wife of Bo Xilai, the disgraced Chinese politician, was told several years ago by a doctor that her nervous system had suffered irreversible damage because she had been steadily ingesting poison that someone had slipped into...
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10.12.12Bo Xilai as a Catalyst for Political Reform
No matter how you look at it, the disciplinary process surrounding the case of Bo Xilai will have historic implications.Details of the crimes committed by Bo, his wife, Bogu Kailai, and his former right-hand man, Wang Lijun, reflect a level of...
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10.12.12Review: Ai Weiwei at the Hirshhorn
New York Times
Mr. Ai, who seems to lose his sense of humor only rarely, has characterized his increasingly dangerous jousting with the Chinese government as a kind of performance art.
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10.12.12
Chinese Direct Investment in California
Daniel H. Rosen
Asia Society
To build the case for a robust response to these opportunities and looming risks, this report analyzes Chinese investment in California in depth, mining a unique database for insights about California’s comparative advantages, the Chinese firms most...
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10.12.12Japan and China Agree to Talks on Rift after Noda Call
Bloomberg
Talks aim to reduce tensions over territorial dispute, avoid suffering in Asia’s biggest economies.
Environment
10.11.12
China’s New Leaders Must Respect Environmental Rights
from chinadialogue
China has achieved remarkable economic successes over the last three decades. For years, it has led the world in GDP growth. But widespread industrialization and urbanization, along with growth based on increased use of resources, mean the nation...
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10.11.12
An Honest Writer Survives in China
from New York Review of Books
A little over a year ago, I went with the Chinese writer Yu Hua to his hometown of Hangzhou, some one hundred miles southwest of Shanghai, and realized that his bawdy books might not be purely fictional; their characters and situations seemed to...
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10.11.12
Standing Their Ground
Amnesty International
The forced eviction of people from their homes and farmland has become a routine occurrence in China and represents a gross violation of China’s international human rights obligations on an enormous scale. Despite international scrutiny and censure...
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10.10.12Censorship Reaching 1,000 Miles Exposed on China’s Twitter
Netizens exposing public servants' taste for expensive timepieces has sparked an online and newspaper crackdown. On October 9, Wang Keqin (@王克勤), an Economic Observer (@经济观察报) reporter posted on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, that...
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10.10.12Noda Calls for China Talks as Island Spat Threatens Growth
Bloomberg
PM calls for talks to contain economic damage from dispute with Japan's No. 1 trade partner.
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10.10.12Over A Distressed Europe, It's Super China To The Rescue
Forbes
China is considering lending even more money to bail out the region’s recessionary economies.
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10.10.12Five Points on the Deeply Flawed U.S. Congress Huawei Report
Transpacifica
Chinese telecomms firms painted as shady, but evidence to back up allegations is hidden in report's classified sections.
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10.10.12As Romney Repeats Trade Message, Bain Maintains China Ties
New York Times
China-related holdings by funds in which Mr. Romney has invested are a reminder of how he inhabits two worlds.
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10.10.12China Gets Back to Work
New York Times
After China's Golden Week holiday, a round-up of important recent stories on economy and politics.
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10.09.12What Han Han's App Means for Chinese Censorship
By publishing "The One" as an iPhone app, China's superblogger bypassed the State Administration of Radio Film and Television.
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10.09.12The Pivot (Video)
University of Southern California, U.S.-China Institute
The Obama administration has made Asia a top priority for U.S. foreign policy. The move has been dubbed "The Pivot," and it has the potential to be one of the most enduring legacies of the Obama presidency.
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10.08.12No Ancient Wisdom for China
YaleGlobal Online
The much-vaunted China Model has morphed in the past decade to a one-of-a-kind system of authoritarian capitalism that is in danger of terminating itself – and taking the world down with it. It is also proving incompatible with global trade...
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10.08.12Review of Ai Weiwei at the Hirshhorn
Wall Street Journal
Ai Weiwei will probably be regarded as the most important artist of the past decade. He is certainly its most newsworthy and arguably its most inspiring. Over the repressions of Chinese authorities, he has used a wide range of resources to broadcast...
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10.08.12Huawei Fires Back at the U.S.
Wall Street Journal
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Inc. lashed out Monday at a scathing congressional report, calling allegations that it may be spying on Americans and violating U.S. laws "little more than an exercise in China-bashing."
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10.06.12Former Wife of Fallen Chinese Leader Tells of a Family’s Paranoid Side
New York Times
Just months before his fall from power, Bo Xilai asked the brother of his first wife to meet him at a government compound in the southwest metropolis of Chongqing.
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10.05.12Fu Manchu Returns
Wall Street Journal
Fear of China is back. But it's a nebulous fear, and this creates both an opportunity and an obstacle for the male and female anti-heroes of Christopher Buckley's latest look at the surreal world of lobbyist, the uneven but occasionally...
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10.05.12Ralls vs. CFIUS: What Are the Implications for Chinese Investment?
Council on Foreign Relations
First, this was not a political move by the President to position himself as tough on China, as suggested by some. The timeline of the review through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Presidential...
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10.04.12The Mixed Bag of Socialism
China Media Project
Ahead of the 18th National Congress, the phrase “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is as strong as ever.
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10.04.12What the U.S. Presidential Debate Looked Like From China
Atlantic
Chinese netizens shared mixed views of the U.S. election, some cynical, some optimistic.
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10.04.12
David Levine’s China
from New York Review of Books
David Levine’s depictions of Chinese notables—and everyone else he drew, for that matter—are so sublime that very often after seeing an image, one is left hardly able to remember what the real person actually looked like.Levine had way of catching...
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10.03.12Mistresses and Corruption
Bloomberg
Which came first? The corruption or the mistresses? In China, they most often go together. The stories abound: from the corrupt official in Fujian who, in 2002, held the first (and only) annual competition to judge which...
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10.02.12Han Han: “Why Aren't You Grateful?”
New York Review of Books
When looking for Chinese reactions to the anti-Japanese riots that took place in late September, it was probably not much of a surprise that the Western press turned to Han Han, the widely read Shanghai-based blogger. In characteristic form, Han...