Commentary
China’s land grab in India
- Fri, 05/10/2013 - 21:35
Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding Himalayan frontier.
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The Kashgar incident and China’s Uyghur question
- Wed, 05/08/2013 - 19:33
The increasing timidity of Western democracies to pursue the principle of responsibility to protect at an international level is leaving the Chinese government with the freedom to oppress
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The Uyghurs of China: Unforeseen Victims of the War on Terror
- Tue, 05/07/2013 - 22:17
Discourses surrounding the ‘war on terror’ have proved useful in China’s concerted efforts to deny the rights of the Uyghur population, who faced yet another deadly attack on 23 April
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China's minority problem is a global problem
- Fri, 05/03/2013 - 23:24
What happens in China does not stay in China. Everything and everybody is connected in today’s world. Neither China nor America is an island. What happens in one country impacts the other – and often, all humanity.
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The Long Arm of the Law in Xinjiang: Fresh Violence Erupts in China's Muslim Far West
- Thu, 05/02/2013 - 22:01
Two outbreaks of deadly violence in Xinjiang this week highlight China's failure to bring stability to its troubled far west Muslim frontier.
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Echoes of the last massacre in East Turkestan
- Tue, 04/30/2013 - 00:00
While Turkish media showed great interest in the massacre in which 21 people were killed in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not even made a statement yet.
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How to Understand China's Foreign Policy
- Tue, 04/23/2013 - 20:12
China can become a beacon for the world -- if it trades in its conservative foreign policy for one that emphasizes universal values.
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Why America and China can’t trust each other
- Tue, 04/23/2013 - 20:10
The release of China’s biennial defense white paper has been getting some press for its revelations about the People’s Liberation Army’s force structure.
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China's internet - A giant cage
- Wed, 04/10/2013 - 22:24
The internet was expected to help democratise China. Instead, it has enabled the authoritarian state to get a firmer grip, says Gady Epstein. But for how long?
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On China’s State-Sponsored Amnesia
- Mon, 04/01/2013 - 22:04
IN March 2012 I met Torbjorn Loden, the Swedish professor of Chinese language and culture, in Hong Kong.
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