IBM Venture With China Stirs Concerns
IBM is running into Obama pressure to persuade Beijing to drop new measures that require American companies to hand over technology in exchange for market access.
China Cracks Down on Golf, the ‘Sport for Millionaires’
Party officials in Guangdong, home to the 12-course Mission Hills Golf Club, are now forbidden to golf during work hours.
The China Africa Project
04.18.15
Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in Africa
The Chinese government has spent billions of dollars in Africa on public diplomacy initiatives that are intended to improve the country’s image. Central to that strategy is the growing network of Confucius Institutes (CIs) spread across the...
US and EU Criticise Chinese Journalist’s Jailing for ‘Leaking State Secrets’
Gao Yu vows to appeal her 7-yr sentence for allegedly leaking Document 9, revealing Party hostility to human rights.
Opinion: Gao Yu Verdict Sends Clear Message to Regime Critics in China
Chinese journalist Gao Yu's seven year sentence again shows how Beijing authorities deal with critics of the regime.
Images Show Rapid Chinese Progress on New South China Sea Airstrip
China's new airstrips sit in a shipping lane through which $5 trillion of trade passes each year.
Why Do the Chinese Hack? Fear
To ensure its survival, the Chinese Communist Party has decided that it must control the Internet.
Media
04.15.15
Online Support–and Mockery–Await Chinese Feminists After Release
On April 13, Chinese authorities released on bail five feminist activists detained for over a month without formal charges...
Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
It's unclear how she would manage two of America's most important and complex relationships.
China’s G.D.P. Slows to 7 Percent, the Weakest Rate Since 2009
China’s G.D.P. Slows to 7 Percent, the Weakest Rate Since 2009
Wild Pigeon
“The underlying theme I heard when talking to people was that how you interpret things is how they will be, so its best to look at the bright side of things. You don’t mention bad dreams, or you try to interpret them in a positive way. People...
Caixin Media
04.14.15
Bulldozing the Cadre Who Revamped Kunming
Warm, sunny Kunming brimmed with charm before Communist Party leader Qiu He brought an autocratic style of governance to town and spurred the urbanization campaign that preceded his downfall.
Today, this historic city in southwestern China...
Can the US and China Save the World?
The Department of Commerce emphasized Obama's commitment to fighting climate change through clean energy development.
Media
04.14.15
Henry Paulson: ‘Dealing with China’
from Asia BlogSpeaking at Asia Society New York on April 13 with New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson explained that it’s...
Media
04.13.15
The Chinese Internet Hates Hillary Clinton Even More than Republicans Do
On the afternoon of April 12, Hillary Clinton announced her long-expected decision to run for president in 2016. Within hours, Chinese news sites shared the...
China Restricts Travel By Shenzhen Residents To Hong Kong
The move is designed to assuage Hong Kongers angry with mainlanders who buy up goods.
China Releases 5 Women’s Rights Activists Detained for Weeks
Police released five female activists detained after campaigning against sexual harassment on public transport.
China, US to Boost Cooperation on Repatriating Fugitives
China and the U.S. are boosting cooperation in sending home crime suspects amid a Chinese drive to ferret out corrupt officials and fugitives.
Hank Paulson: Economic Challenges, China — and the Birds
Paulson says the United States needs a clear-eyed, coordinated, consistent approach to the formidable challenge from China.
The NYRB China Archive
04.13.15
China: What the Uighurs See
from New York Review of BooksXinjiang is one of those remote places whose frequent mention in the international press stymies true understanding. Home to China’s Uighur minority, this vast region of western China is mostly known for being in a state of...
Culture
04.10.15
A New Opera and Hong Kong’s Utopian Legacy
This year, the 43rd annual Hong Kong Arts Festival commissioned a chamber opera in three acts called Datong: The...
Viewpoint
04.10.15
Bury Zhao Ziyang, and Praise Him
Zhao Ziyang, the premier and general secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1980s, died on January 17, 2005. At a tightly...
TV Presenter Insults Mao at Private Dinner
CCTV is investigating a top presenters after he was caught calling Mao a “son of a bitch” at a private dinner.
We Traveled Across China and Returned Terrified for the Economy
China’s steel and metals markets, a barometer of the world’s second-biggest economy, are “a lot worse than you think.”
Books
04.09.15
Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 1951-1979
A comprehensive history of how the conflicts and balances of power in the Maoist revolutionary campaigns from 1951 to 1979 complicated and diversified the meanings of films, this book offers a discursive study of the development of early PRC cinema.
Sinica Podcast
04.07.15
Cyber Leninism and the Political Culture of the Chinese Internet
from Sinica PodcastKaiser Kuo and David Moser speak with Rogier Creemers, post-doctoral fellow at Oxford with a focus on Chinese Internet governance and author of the China Copyright and Media...
Born Red
How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao.
Caixin Media
04.06.15
Tycoon Said to Bring Down a Deputy Mayor, Control Key Beijing Land Deal
A recent business dispute between a state-owned technology conglomerate and a private property developer has put a low-profile but powerful businessman in the spotlight. The businessman is believed to have brought down a former Beijing deputy...
China Escalates Hollywood Partnerships, Aiming to Compete One Day
Chinese studios are moving up the value chain, helping to develop, design and produce world-class films and animated features.
The Chinese Billionaire Zhang Lei Spins Research Into Investment Gold
Starting 10 years ago with $20 million from Yale’s endowment, Zhang was an early backer of Tencent and JD.com.
Books
04.02.15
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal, traders carrying salt across the Himalayas, and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa.
Features
04.02.15
Frank Talk About Hong Kong’s Future from Margaret Ng
Following is the transcript of a recent ChinaFile Breakfast with Margaret Ng, the former Hong Kong legislator in discussion with Ira Belkin of New York University Law School and Orville Schell, ChinaFile Publisher and Arthur Ross...
New App Collects Xi’s Wisdom
The free app makes available Xi’s books including “The Governance of China.”
Taiwan’s Rash Decision to Join AIIB
Taiwan’s legislative branch was never able to approve the application or review the evaluation reports and proposals.
Claims of Retaliation in Detention of Chinese Anticorruption Campaigner
Ou Shaokun, 61, gained prominence by advising Guangzhou petitioners protesting government land seizures.
Viewpoint
04.01.15
China’s Government Is Serious About Fundamentally Reshaping Itself
Respected China scholar David Shambaugh recently set off a firestorm among other China specialists when he predicted the collapse of China’s ruling Communist Party...
Xi Jinping Forever
Is China’s increasingly powerful president angling to break tradition and extend his rule indefinitely?
U.S. Navy Alarmed at Beijing’s ‘Great Wall of Sand’ in So China Sea
US Admiral says competing territorial claims in the South China Sea are “increasing regional tensions and the potential for miscalculation."
Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Council on Foreign Relations
China represents and will remain the most significant competitor to the United States for decades to come. As such, the need for a more coherent U.S. response to increasing Chinese power is long overdue. Because the American effort to “integrate...
U.S.-China 21: The Future of U.S.-China Relations Under Xi Jinping
Harvard University
We are, therefore, seeing the emergence of an asymmetric world in which the fulcrums of economic and military power are no longer co-located, but, in fact, are beginning to diverge significantly. Political power, through the agency of foreign...
China Regulates Against Officials’ Judicial Meddling
To advance the rule of law China plans to name and shame officials who commonly interfere in judicial cases.
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Mystery Surrounds Disappearance of Xinjiang Article and Related Apology
An article on a Muslim couple jailed for beard and burqa appeared Sunday in state media but was gone Monday.
Chinese Authorities Compromise Millions in Cyberattacks
Hijacking the computers of millions of innocent Internet users around the world shows China's disregard for Internet governance norms.
Why Chinese Students Find it Hard to Make Friends on US Campuses
Chinese students complain that American students are misinformed, prejudiced and offensive on Chinese current events.
Navigating Choppy Waters
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
China faces increasing economic headwinds that call into question not only its near-term growth outlook but the longer-term sustainability of its economic success. At a time of leadership transition in Beijing, global markets and policymakers...
China Appears to Attack GitHub by Diverting Web Traffic
In recent attacks on sites that try to help Internet users in China circumvent censorship, the Great Firewall appears to have been used as a weapon.
How China Plans to Shape New Asian Order
At the center of these efforts is the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and plans for pan-Asian infrastructure .
Caixin Media
03.30.15
Plan for Next Five Years Must Free Up Disposable Income
The government's 12th Five-Year Plan concludes this year, and work on drafting the 13th will begin soon.
Which way will China turn? In its work report to legislators at the National People's Congress meeting in March, the government...
Iran Nuclear Talks: What China Brings to the Negotiating Table
China is reportedly proposing a compromise between Iran's insistence on an end to all UN sanctions and US desires for gradual relief.
Fifty Shades of Xi
China’s confessional politics of dominance.
Full Text of Chinese President’s Speech at Boao Forum for Asia
Xi's speech, entitled, "Towards a Community of Common Destiny and A New Future for Asia"
China’s Zhou Says PBOC Has Room to Act on Growth Slowdown
The central bank chief's remarks follow China's weakest expansion since 1990.
Beyond Ai Weiwei: How China’s Artists Handle Politics (or Avoid Them)
Westerners are often criticized for looking at Chinese art through a narrow political lens.
Lee Kuan Yew, the Man Who Remade Asia
He preached ‘Asian values’ and turned a tiny, poor city-state into an astonishing economic success. Is Lee’s ‘Singapore model’ the future of Asia?
U.S. About-Face on AIIB Would be Welcomed
US leaders have for years said Asia-Pacific nations do not have to choose between China and the US.
South Korea Says It Will Join China-Led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
Seoul makes assurances about AIIB’s governance, which U.S. has been wary about.
Media
03.25.15
Was Lee Kuan Yew an Inspiration or a Race Traitor? Chinese Can’t Agree
When Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore, passed away at the ripe age of 91 on March 23, the elderly statesman was as controversial in death as in life—and...