Wang Qishan Highlights Party Discipline in Anti-Corruption Effort
Wang pledged to enhance institutional innovation and let discipline take the lead in the anti-graft campaign.
As Russia Remembers War in Europe, Guest of Honor Is From China
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is an imperfect symbol of the wartime past and an uncertain one for Russia’s future.
China Pulls Out Stops to Avoid Lay-Offs as Economy Cools
Some businesses are even enticed into hiring despite the slackening economic growth.
China Issues Guideline for Eco-Friendly Development
Safeguarding the environment lags China’s economic status—limited resources and severe pollution preventing sustainable growth.
Media
05.06.15
Online Reaction to Baltimore Protests Reveals Much About Chinese Tension with African Immigrants
Several days ago, a Chinese friend and I were discussing the protests in Baltimore that erupted in response to the death of...
The Urgency of Continuing with Reform
The best way to side step the much-discussed middle-income trap is to forge ahead with changes to the growth model.
Calls to Punish China Grow
Some in Washington are calling for President Obama to cancel China’s invitation to the largest maritime military exercise in the world.
Sinica Podcast
05.04.15
The Furor and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
from Sinica PodcastA total of 57 countries have now joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s newly-launched competitor to the Asian Development Bank (AIIB) that has sparked a flurry of objections from the United States, even culminating in a failed...
China Focus: Cross-Strait Economic Forum Held in Shanghai
The forum could invite a wider spectrum of people to cover major issues of cross-Strait development.
The Battle for Taiwan’s Soul: The 2016 Presidential Election
Xi Jinping and Kuomintang leader Eric Chu’s summit Monday is the first between respective party leaders since 2009.
The U.S.-China Disconnect on Trade Deals
Obama cautions on Beijing’s rise as he pushes TPP at home; a look at key differences in how the U.S. and China approach trade expansion.
Q. and A.: Francis Fukuyama on China's Political Development
Stanford historian argues an effective political system has to balance state capacity against rule of law and democracy.
Ask The Vietnamese About War, And They Think China, Not The U.S.
Vietnam's brief but bloody border war with China in 1979 left more than 50,000 dead.
Environment
04.30.15
‘Blue Sky’ App Gets China’s Public Thinking About Pollution Solutions
from chinadialogueThe Blue Sky Map app, which was officially launched April 28 by the Institute of...
China Rethinks Safety Net for Its Banking System
New deposit insurance could shake the public’s faith in the long-held belief in failsafe government bailouts.
China and South Korea Criticize Japanese Prime Minister’s Speech in US
Shinzo Abe denounced for not repeating previous PMs’ apologies for Japan using sex slaves during second world war.
Obama Accuses China of Flexing Muscle in Disputes with Neighbors
Obama said a strong U.S.-Japan alliance should not be seen as a provocation to China.
Conversation
04.29.15
Is China Building Up Soft Power by Aiding Nepal?
A devastating earthquake has struck one of China’s smallest neighbors, the mountainous former kingdom known, since 2008, as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Surrounded on three sides by India—known in Nepali as a “friendly nation”—Nepal...
Commentary: South China Sea No Showcase for U.S.-Japanese Alliance
As long as Japan refuses to face WWII atrocities, the world community will never loosen the screw.
China on My Mind: U.S.-Japan Visit Mostly About Beijing, State Media Says
U.S.-Japan talks mainly served to throw into relief concerns about China.
Media
04.28.15
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Chinese Fugitives
Meet China’s 100 international most-wanted: a history professor, a driving instructor, and a government propaganda office cashier. Chinese graft-busters want you to know that one of them might be your neighbor.
On April 22, China’s dreaded...
Features
04.28.15
Where Do We Draw the Line on Balancing China?
from Foreign PolicyIs it time for the United States to get serious about balancing China? According to Robert Blackwill and Ashley Tellis, the answer is an emphatic yes. In a new Council on Foreign Relations report, they...
Three Days in Beijing with the Global Dissident Elite
Poitras, Oscar-winning Citizenfourdirector, came to Beijing to shoot a film about Appelbaum and Ai meeting and making art.
Chinese Feminist Wants to be the Country’s First Openly Lesbian Lawyer
Li Tingting is determined that police harrassment will not stop her.
Forced Disappearances, Brutality, and Communist China’s Politics of Fear
Low-ranking officials are in a state of continual fear as their colleagues vanish around them.
Wang Jianlin, a Billionaire at the Intersection of Business and Power in China -
Wang tends to present himself as the pragmatic face of big business in China.
Nepal Rejects Taiwan Rescue Team Offer, Says Minister
Nepal does not recognize Taiwan, considered by China as part of its territory awaiting to be reunited since their split in 1949 at the end of a civil war.
The China Africa Project
04.25.15
China, Africa, and the PRC’s Massive New Development Bank
Fifty-seven countries, including two from Africa, are among the founding members of China’s new development bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). While the new bank’s primary objective will be to develop infrastructure projects...
Environment
04.24.15
Fracking May be Needed in China to Wean it Off Coal
from chinadialogueFracking of China’s huge shale gas reserves will only have a modest impact on the environment if anti-pollution controls—many of them new—are enforced rigorously, says a new report from the U.K.-based...
China Shocks World by Genetically Engineering Human Embryos
Critics warn China's the ‘Wild West’ of genetic research, on its way to desiging children.
China Buzzing Over President's First ‘Selfie’
The photo was posted by Fadli Zon of the Great Indonesia Movement Party from the Asian-African Summit in Jakarta.
Conversation
04.23.15
A New Era for China and Pakistan?
This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Islamabad and showered Pakistan with attention and promises of $46 billion in development support. What does this intensified Sino-Pakistani engagement mean for Asia and the rest of the world? —...
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Chinese Fugitives
One of China’s 100 international most-wanted might be your neighbor in the United States.
China’s Big Plunge in Pakistan
If China can advance a stable Pakistan through development programs, the whole region would benefit.
China Points to America in Most-Wanted List
Pointing to America in Most-Wanted List Beijing believes some corruption suspects have fled to U.S.
China Asks Interpol to Help Find 100 Graft Suspects
Chinese authorities are seeking to repatriate absconding officials and others accused of corruption.
Viewpoint
04.23.15
China’s Leftists Are Embracing Confucius. Why?
When Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu posted their new paper, “China’s Ideological Spectrum,” last week, it marked the first time that anyone has provided large-...
Books
04.23.15
Intimate Rivals
No country feels China’s rise more deeply than Japan. Through intricate case studies of visits by Japanese politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, conflicts over the boundaries of economic zones in the East China Sea, concerns about food safety, and strategies of island defense, Sheila A. Smith explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it tries to navigate its relationship with an advancing China.
China Warns North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal is Expanding
China's communist ally may already have 20 warheads and the enrichment capacity to double that number in a year.
China Is Planning to Rebuild the Silk Road and Transform Global Trade Routes
China plans to build a modern version of the Silk Road through Pakistan and beyond.
Xi Jinping of China and Shinzo Abe of Japan Meet Amid Slight Thaw in Ties
The meeting signaled a continued slight warming in otherwise frosty relations between Asia’s two top economies.
Caixin Media
04.22.15
China’s Anti-Corruption Drive: Don’t Stop Now
Beijing’s fight against corruption is now two years old. Some significant results have been achieved, winning strong public support. But it’s becoming increasingly difficult to move the campaign forward.
The general public and government...
Xi Says Increasingly Confident in China-Pakistan Ties
Xi called for focus on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Gwadar Port, energy, transport infrastructure, and industrial cooperation.
Media
04.21.15
This Chart Explains Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Internet Censorship
What goes through a Chinese web user’s head the moment before he or she hits the “publish” button? Pundits, scholars, and everyday netizens have spent years trying to parse the (ever-shifting) rules of the Chinese Internet. Although Chinese...
China Airs Pilot Free-Trade Zone National Security Rules for Foreign Investment
Investments in defence, the economy, social order, culture, and the Internet, will be reviewed.
China is Still Rising, Just More Slowly
Embracing China's "new normal" or why the economy Is still on track.
Curbs on Foreign Investment Cut for Four FTZs
Pilot free trade zones in Tianjin, Guangdong, Fujian, and Shanghai now have fewer restrictions.
10 Most Censored Countries
For more than 10 years, China has been among the top 3 jailers of journalists in the world, a distinction that it is unlikely to lose soon.
China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
Beijing looks West toward Eurasian integration.
What China’s and Pakistan’s Special Friendship Means
Sino-Pakistan friendship, read Islamabad billboards, "is higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel."
China’s New Ad Ban?
China is considering a ban on advertisements for infant milk formula in a bid to tackle low levels of breast feeding.
Sinica Podcast
04.20.15
China’s Ideological Spectrum
from Sinica PodcastLast week, Harvard doctoral student Jennifer Pan and MIT graduate student Yiqing Xu co-released a paper, “China’s Ideological Spectrum,” that has garnered a tremendous...
Shinzo Abe and Japan’s History
But Japan cannot credibly help the U.S. to counter China in Asia if it seeks to repudiate criticism of its past.
Snowden Revelations Just Gave China More Ammunition Against US Hacking
China concerned about New Zealand and U.S. intelligence plan to hack Chinese government buildings in Auckland.
China’s Investing $46 B to Carve Route Through one of World’s Most Dangerous Regions
Xi visiing Pakistan to sign energy and infrastructure deals for a corridor stretching to Xinjiang.
China Defines Overall National Security Outlook in Draft Law
Economic security is the basis of national security, and military, cultural, as well as social security are safeguarding measures.
China Film Group Takes Role in Hollywood
With a ten percent stake in ‘Furious 7’ China Film Group had, for the first time, an incentive to award an import a good release date.