How to Counter China’s Global Propaganda Offensive
It has been a difficult year for many Western democracies — and China is rubbing it in.
China Rights Lawyer Xia Lin Jailed for 12 Years
Ai Weiwei's lawyer sentenced for 'fraud'
Conversation
09.21.16
What Should the U.S. Presidential Candidates Be Saying on China?
Barely eight weeks before the United States presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump have said surprisingly little about how they plan to address China—in areas ranging from the global...
Chinese Agents Enter Canada on Tourist Visas to Coerce Return of Fugitive Expats
Trudeau begins negotiations for an extradition treaty with China
Hong Kong Protest Leaders Avoid Jail After Failed Court Bid
"Umbrella Revolution" leaders walk free from court
China, US to Step Up Cooperation to Halt North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program
China’s premier and Obama make a pledge at the UN
Caixin Media
09.19.16
Chinese Spending Can Help Create Jobs in the United States
Trade does result in very real and serious job losses, while its benefits are spread more broadly over the entire U.S. economy. Yet many job losses are not a result of trade; they are actually driven by productivity gains related...
Four Years On: Where is Xi Jinping’s Anti-corruption Drive Headed?
As the anti-corruption campaign launched by CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping approaches its fourth anniversary, the question ought to be asked: where is it going?
China in the World Podcast
09.16.16
Obama’s Asia Legacy
from Carnegie ChinaAs President Obama enters his final months in office and a new administration prepares to take the helm in 2017, what will his legacy be in the Asia-Pacific? In this podcast, Paul Haenle and Michael Green, former senior director...
Media
09.14.16
The Chinese Democratic Experiment that Never Was
Protesters in southern China are up in arms. They feel that Beijing’s promises that they’d be able to vote for their own local leaders have been honored in the breach. They’re outraged at the show of force in the face of peaceful protest, and...
Conversation
09.13.16
Can China’s Best Newspaper Survive?
On September 9, the South China Morning Post’s Chinese-language website went dark with little explanation, leading to concerns that censorship might next spread to the newspaper’s English-language coverage. Can Alibaba’s founder, Jack Ma, who has...
Depth of Field
09.12.16
African Migrants in Guangzhou, Forgetting, Family Planning’s Fate, and More...
from Yuanjin PhotoPhotographing the aftermath of catastrophic events is challenging—one that photographer Mu Li handles with creativity and grace looking back at the chemical explosion in Tianjin that damaged as many as 17,000 homes August 12, 2015. Another...
The South China Morning Post Has Suddenly Shut Down Its Chinese-language Website
In one fell swoop, years of reporting from SCMP is gone.
China Lays New Brick in Silk Road With First Afghan Rail Freight
China has for years had grand investment plans for Afghanistan’s resource riches.
China Rethinks Its Alliance With Reeling Venezuela
Concerns prompted emergency meetings between the Chinese envoy and state companies.
Mayor of Major Chinese Port City of Tianjin Faces Corruption Inquiry
City’s acting Communist party chief is accused of ‘serious discipline breaches’ by investigators.
The NYRB China Archive
09.08.16
The People in Retreat
from New York Review of BooksAi Xiaoming is one of China’s leading documentary filmmakers and political activists. Since 2004, she has made more than two dozen films, many of them long,...
Conversation
09.07.16
The Hong Kong Election: What Message Does it Send Beijing?
On September 4, Hong Kong elected a batch of its youngest and most pro-democratic lawmakers yet. Six new legislators, all under 40, won on platforms that called for Hong Kongers to decide their own fate. The youngest is 23-year-old Nathan Law, a...
China Confirms Development of New Long-Range Bomber
The new long-range bomber should be capable of reaching targets as far as the “second island chain.”
International Diplomatic Incidents Bring Benefits for China
Western officials say that negotiations and joint events often feel like exercises in humiliation.
Goldman Sachs: China Signaling Further Stimulus on the Way
The bank pointed to China’s State Council meeting this week, which discussed plans to streamline the approval process for investment projects.
China Says It Has Netted One-Third of Top Overseas Graft Suspects
Over the past two years, the commission has returned to China 1,915 people from more than 70 countries.
China Warns Hong Kong Democracy Activists After Election
Many in Hong Kong are increasingly concerned about Beijing's interventions in its politics.
G20 A Success For China, But Hard Issues Kicked Down the Road
Scratch beneath the surface, and the gathering of the world's most powerful leaders was not all plain sailing.
Conversation
09.01.16
What Can We Expect from China at the G20?
On September 4-5, heads of the world’s major economies will meet in the southeastern city of Hangzhou for the G20 summit. The meeting represents “the most significant gathering of world leaders in China’s history,” according to The New York Times...
Sinica Podcast
08.31.16
What Is Cultural About the Cultural Revolution? Creativity Amid Destruction
from Sinica PodcastThis year marked the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a chaotic decade of...
Media
08.25.16
China Analysts Should Talk to Each Other, Not at Each Other
On August 12, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its annual report card on China’s economy and gave the country mixed grades, finding...
FBI Files Say China Firm Pushed U.S. Experts for Nuclear Secrets
Summaries of the consultants’ interviews with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were filed this month.
China Military Says It Is Providing Medical Training for Syria
China has its own security concerns about violence in the region.
Conversation
08.25.16
Could China Now Defeat the United States in a Battle Over the South China Sea or Taiwan?
Chinese Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping kicked off the latest round of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reforms at a September 3, 2015 military parade. The reforms could result in a leaner, more combat-effective PLA. This could create new...
Excerpts
08.18.16
Why an Elite Chinese Student Decided Not to Join the Communist Party
“Wish Lanterns” follows the lives of six Chinese born between 1985 and 1990 as they grow up, go to school, and pursue their aspirations. Millennials are a transformational generation in China, heralding key societal and cultural shifts, and they are...
Conversation
08.18.16
What Would China Look Like Today Had Zhao Ziyang Survived?
Almost 500 previously unpublished documents about Zhao Ziyang, the bold reformer who served as China’s premier (1980-1987) and Communist Party general secretary (1987-1989), were smuggled out of China and published in late July by the Chinese...
The NYRB China Archive
08.18.16
Who Is Kim Jong-un?
from New York Review of BooksThe pudgy cheeks and flaring hairdo of North Korea’s young ruler Kim Jong-un, his bromance with tattooed and pierced former basketball star Dennis Rodman, his boy-on-a-lark grin at missile firings, combine incongruously with the...
China Says Other Topics Must Not Divert G-20’s Economy Focus
Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong said leaders shouldn’t be distracted by the South China Sea issue.
Media
08.11.16
The Future of China’s Legal System
In early August, Beijing held show trials of four legal activists—a disheartening turn for those optimistic about legal reform in...
Japan Rescues Chinese Fishing Boat Amid Tense Relations
The boat had collided with a 300m long Greece-flagged merchant ship, near a group of Japan-controlled islands.
China Takes A Gamble in Scapegoating the West
This type of propaganda gives license to ordinary people to indulge their most primitive prejudices.
China Says New Satellite Will Help Safeguard Interests at Sea
The “Gaofen 3” satellite has a radar system that captures images from space down to 3 feet and can operate in all weather conditions.
In China, Economic Data Highlights Growing Divide Between Regions
Provinces’ first-half figures for GDP growth also have revived the debate over the country’s statistics.
Conversation
08.10.16
Is Big Data Increasing Beijing’s Capacity for Control?
China’s authoritarian government is using big data to develop credit scoring systems, and is urging data-sharing between companies and governments, putting ordinary Chinese squarely in the digital spotlight. How should Chinese netizens and global...
Beijing Flies Bombers Over Disputed South China Sea
Development comes as former Philippine leader heads to China for talks on resolving maritime dispute.
Week of TV Trials in China Signals New Phase in Attack on Rights
Legal experts and supporters of four defendants denounced the hearings, held on consecutive days in Tianjin, a port city near Beijing, as grotesque show trials.
Kenya Angers Taiwan by Deporting More Fraud Suspects to China
The deportations follow similar ones in April, when 45 people from Taiwan, accused of being part of the same fraud ring, were sent from Kenya to China.
China in the World Podcast
08.04.16
What a Former CIA China Expert Has Learned from 30 Years in the Field
from Carnegie ChinaAs tensions between the United States and China rise over security issues in the Asia-Pacific region, some are concerned about the possibility of conflict between the world’s two largest economies. Dennis Wilder, former Senior...
Books
08.02.16
Creativity Class
The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China’s visual culture industries, from architecture and graphic design to fine art and fashion. New ideologies of creativity and creative practices have reshaped the training of a new generation of art school graduates. Creativity Class is the first book to explore how Chinese art students develop, embody, and promote their own personalities and styles as they move from art school entrance test preparation, to art school, to work in the country’s burgeoning culture industries.
The China Africa Project
07.30.16
The Honeymoon between China and Africa Is Over and That’s a Good Thing
It wasn’t that long ago when it was all smiles between the Chinese and Africans. The headlines were all about “win-win” development, China’s role in helping Africa to...
China Asks Vietnam to Investigate Report of Defaced Passport
The incident comes at a time of high tensions in the region.
Chinese Propaganda Video on South China Sea Will Be Played 120 Times Everyday in Times Square
The video will play from July 23rd to August 3rd.
China and Russia to Hold Joint Drills in South China Sea
The announcement follows a ruling by an international tribunal earlier this month that rejected China’s claims in the region.
Gig Economy Arrives in China (Officially); Ride-Sharing a Go
A Cabinet document sets guidelines for registration, fares, employment of drivers and payments.
The NYRB China Archive
07.28.16
China: The People’s Fury
from New York Review of BooksIt has long been routine to find in both China’s official news organizations and its social media a barrage of anti-American comment, but rarely has it reached quite the intensity and fury of the last few days. There have been...
Sinica Podcast
07.27.16
Whose Century Is It, Anyway?
from Sinica PodcastVeteran China journalists Mary Kay Magistad and Gady Epstein discuss the increasingly complex “frenemyship” of China and the United States, the South China Sea, the role of “old China hands,” and how the Middle Kingdom is changing the world and...
Times Square Is Now In the Middle of a Fight Over the South China Sea
China has taken its fight with the Philippines over who owns territory in the South China Sea to a whole new arena: Times Square. The state-run Xinhua announced Tuesday that a 3 minute long publicity video premiered on the Square’s “China Screen...
Southeast Asian Nations Give Weak Rebuke to China Over South China Sea Dispute
It exposes the deep divisions in a regional body that prides itself on unity.
China Sets Up South China Sea Environment Protection Fund
The funds would initially be spent on exploring the world's deepest underwater sinkhole.