September 2010
Hinckley forum discusses Turkish minority's lack of rights in China
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
Stories of discrimination and oppression out of China are not new, and a group of Chinese minorities are reaching out to the U community to tell their stories.
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Free Markets and National Defense: U.S. Import Dependence on China
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
Americans buy a huge quantity of goods-ranging from audio-video equipment to clothing-made, or at least assembled, in China. The vast amounts involved raise the possibility of U.S. dependence on China. Heritage Foundation Asia economist Derek Scissors looked at the numbers and found that Chinese imports to the U.S. are concentrated in areas with little or no strategic value.
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Not the Time to Go Wobbly: Press U.S. Advantage on South China Sea
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
A few days ago, the Associated Press quoted Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell and White House Asia Adviser Jeffrey Bader telling ambassadors from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that the Administration’s toughness regarding China’s claims in the South China Sea is having the desired effect, “clearly [moving them] back to a more collaborative approach.
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Kyrgyz intelligence agency claims - they banned a film according to Presidential Administration's order
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
Kyrgyzstan’s State National Security Service (GSNB) claims that they banned screening a film shot by a human rights activist from China according to the order issued by the Head of Presidential Administration Emil Kaptagaev. Human Rights Center “Citizens against corruption” reported with reference to the GSNB.
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Ban on 'Religious' Clothing
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
A region-wide policy in northwestern China banning women from wearing long dresses and covering their faces, and men from wearing beards, restricts more than religious practice, according to members of Xinjiang's predominantly Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority.
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The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
New books about the Uyghur people from China's northwest region of Xinjiang are hard to come by. Books that accurately and objectively document the Uyghur political landscape in the face of rapid change are even harder. Gardner Bovingdon's book is therefore a welcome addition to the literature on a complex, but increasingly important subject.
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Krgyz Security Service Disrupts Human Rights Film Festival
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
The Kyrgyz National Security Service (UKK) has interrupted the screening of an Australian documentary about a prominent Uyghur rights activist at the fourth annual One World Film Festival in Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
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A Sino-centric Asia unlikely
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
How Asia's geopolitical landscape will evolve over the next couple of decades is not easy to foresee. But it is apparent that an increasingly assertive China is unwittingly reinforcing America's role in Asia as the implicit guarantor of security and stability.
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Risk of trade war rises as key US committee backs tariffs on China
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
The risk of a trade war between the US and China has increased after a key Congressional committee backed a bill to allow US companies to seek tariffs on Chinese imports.
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U.S. and Asian allies push back against China's rise
- Sat, 09/25/2010 - 12:00
United States President Barack Obama is due to meet leaders of the 10 southeast Asian countries today in the clearest demonstration so far of the failure of Beijing to convince its neighbours that China’s continuing economic and military development will be a “peaceful rise.”
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