High-level talks with the Chinese government to address persistent cyberattacks against U.S. companies and government agencies haven’t worked, so officials say the Obama administration is now considering a range of actions.
The New York Times has come under attack by Chinese hackers just at the very moment that the new Chinese leadership, under Xi Jinping, has pledged to root our corruption before it destroys the Party.
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.
The Renmin University Crisis Management Research Center surveyed 24 cases of corruption that became public knowledge on the Chinese Internet in 2012.
How much of a reformer is China’s new leader, Xi Jinping? The January announcement that China is going to stop “Re-education Through Labor” by the end of the year could offer an important clue.
Wiretapping, email hacking, cell phone tracking, and secret videotaping are just a few of the cloak-and-dagger techniques long employed by police in the course of criminal investigations in China.
But now, for the first time, new rules say...
China scotched reports that disgraced politician Bo Xilai’s much anticipated trial would open on Monday, amid chaotic scenes at a courthouse packed with expectant journalists in the south of the country.
On his first trip to China as Secretary of State, Sen. Kerry should make the rhetorical case for a positive future vision of the bilateral relationship based on rules.
Tian Dawei was the first Chinese man to being a gay, HIV-positive man on state TV. He wanted to help people understand, but in China AIDS still carried a strong stigma.
Historically, China's supplied workers to the world. But as it ages the country might seek to recruit immigrants as labor.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection pledged to cut vehicle emissions, the source of about a quarter of China's air pollution, but didn't explain implementation plans.
China’s top securities regulator said foreign investment could be allowed to rise tenfold In what would be a drastic liberalization of huge, cloistered capital markets.
Censorship is commonplace, but is usually more subtle, with directives described over the phone rather than by email (where it leaves a trail).
The Hong Kong branch of China Development Bank (CDB) has been ordered by its Beijing headquarters to cancel loans that would have been used to finance an acquisition involving the nation’s second-largest insurer, a bank source said.
The...
The notorious system that lets police send detainees to labor camps without trial will be halted this year, said Meng Jianzhu, secretary of the Central Politics and Law Commission, at a conference on January 7.
Meng said the Communist...
Legal experts have called on the government to follow through with hints at abolishing the country’s notorious system of labor camps.
On January 7, Politburo member Meng Jianzhu said at a top conference that the system would “cease to be...
People across China have been detained or questioned for supporting protesting Southern Weekend journalists.
The Beijing News published a loving tribute, yes, to porridge. In particular, to the porridge of the south. But it is really a song of love and support for Southern Weekly.
For two days, journalists at the Southern Weekly offices and hundreds of their supporters called for free speech.
China's leaders are signaling plans to alter one of the the most despised cudgels for punishing petty criminals and dissidents.
An internal standoff has escalated into a full-blown crisis at Southern Weekly, where Guangdong's propaganda chief meddled in the publication's "New Year's Greeting."...
Hundreds gathered outside the headquarters of a newspaper office in southern China to support journalists who had declared a strike to protest censorship by officials.
Can China’s raucous, muckraking Internet culture survive if microbloggers are forced to disclose their identities.
U.S. company quietly drops warning message that Chinese users saw when searching for politically sensitive phrases
How about cracking down on Web sites that sell guns and drugs, while leaving be those that traffic in ideas and information?
China is still considering the visa application of a New York Times journalist who the paper says was forced to leave.
Records of large drug busts involving meth in recent years--an increasingly common occurrence--tend to show a trail that leads back to China.
China’s new propaganda chief, Liu Qibao, has laid out an agenda for increased political controls on the Internet.
For years, China’s net nannies overlooked virtual private networks used to jump the Great Firewall. But in recent weeks, even these tools have begun to falter, frustrating tech-savvy Chinese and foreign businesspeople who now struggle to access...
China's new leadership has made combating the country’s endemic corruption one of its publicly stated missions.
The southwestern mega city is the latest city to ease the household restriction on migrants sitting the college entrance exam.
In traditional Chinese religion, a fashi, or ritual master, will recite a set of phrases to turn an ordinary space into a sacred area where the gods can descend to receive prayers and rejuvenate the community. The ceremony can last days...
Chinese filmmakers are calling for a system of classifying films according to their suitability for audiences of different ages.
A mysteriouys and heavily guarded suburban Beijing courtyard isn't open to public, only to the petitioners corralled there.
People’s Daily cautions that the Internet is as much a tool of rumor and misinformation as a platform for information sharing.
China arrests 100-plus members of a Christian group predicting Dec. 21 apocalypse.
Tragedy can strike anywhere. Mere hours before the horrific shooting at an American school in Newtown, Connecticut that left twenty-eight people dead, including twenty children, a horrific school attack also happened in China. At an elementary...
A deathbed plea brought an unexpected guest to Li Zhuang’s home one day last March, setting in motion a legal process that soon may clear the Beijing lawyer’s name, throw out a number of convictions, and close a sordid chapter of the Bo Xilai...
Two hundred million Sina Weibo users found Tuesday they could search for Chinese leaders and were free to critiique.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says nearly two-thirds of China's 32 jailed journalists are ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs.
Frequent media reports of overwhelming popular support for mass surveillance are propagandistic in tone and content. However, is there nonetheless some truth in the ‘happy Chinese panopticon’? An international comparative survey on privacy and...
Well-known Chinese environmentalist Liu Futang has been convicted of carrying out “illegal business activities,” given a three-year suspended prison sentence, and fined 17,000 yuan.
Liu Futang,...
A crowd of angry investors packed a Shanghai branch of Huaxia Bank on December 3 after they heard that the money wasn’t there for the first of four repayments for a 119 million-yuan wealth management plan. They demanded their money back from...
Liu Xia trembled uncontrollably and cried as she described how her confinement under house arrest has been absurd.
China rejected a call from 134 Nobel laureates for the release from prison of dissident 2010 Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
The newly-elected leadership of China's ruling party has pledged to reject extravagance and reduce bureaucratic visits and meetings, in a bid to win the trust and support from the people. In a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist...
The outlines of the affair surfaced months ago, but it is now becoming clearer that the crash and the...
The watchdog's look at Chinese affiliates of five U.S. major accounting firms deals a blow to China firms eyeing U.S. captial.
Conjugal entanglements of power, politics, money, and men, usually involving multiple sex partners, are hardly new in China, but how this video came to light was novel: Zhu Ruifeng, a 31-year-old former investigative journalist at the respected...
It was there that Ji realized how the rumor he had inadvertently spread was potentially destabilizing to Jiang and the thousands of officials who depend directly and indirectly on the former President'sprotection and patronage. Ji's captors...
A brief news article published on Sunday by a score of state-run news media outlets offered an account of an unexpected judicial verdict: a Beijing municipal court had sentenced 10 people to jail for illegally detaining and assaulting a group of...
On November 28, the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings hosted the launch of In the Name of Justice:...
Chen Kegui, nephew, of Chen Guangcheng, was convicted of "intentional infliction of injury" during a clash with local officials.
The nephew of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng is sentenced to three years in jail.
A “tomb-flattening policy” in Henan province has sparked intense controversy, with millions of tombs reportedly destroyed by local authorities in a quest to turn graveyards into farmland.
The policy can be seen as a historical extension of...
Wen Jiabao's relatives grew extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership, with most wealth coming from...
