Commentary
Russia's Eastern Anxieties
- Mon, 10/17/2011 - 12:00
Traffic around Tiananmen Square was even worse than usual last week as President Vladimir Putin rolled through town to cement the supposedly flowering Chinese-Russian relationship.
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Forget about morality, my China
- Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:00
The waves of moral indignation that swept through South Africa's righteous wing over the Dalai Lama's visa last week made me wonder whether morality is actually worth fighting for.
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Russia, China, it's over to you
- Tue, 10/11/2011 - 12:00
Believe it - the human cry for freedom and democracy is universal. In Tunisia, what began as a single man's protest, so desperate that he set himself on fire, became a symbol of the yearning for democracy. We have since been moved by the courage of citizens who sought what is naturally theirs in Egypt, Libya and, right now, Syria.
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China's Century-Long Identity Crisis
- Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:00
The Chinese Communist Party invokes the movements that toppled the Qing empire 100 years ago today to portray itself as the culmination of a struggle to build a nation-state.
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Showdown in the South China Sea
- Wed, 09/28/2011 - 12:00
Beijing's belligerence on the oil-rich Spratly Islands issue poses threats to the region
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Europe's political rejection of China is politically correct
- Wed, 09/28/2011 - 12:00
There are times when the only possible response to something an official (usually a politician) says is incredulity — both of the claim itself and that the speaker could ever believe it.
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Do we have a China policy?
- Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:00
It's increasingly clear that the Obama administration has no coherent policy on Iran (sanctions aren't working, so what next?), the Arab Spring or China. Our muddled approach toward China is nowhere more evident than in the administration's stance on the sale of F-16s to Taiwan.
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Why are people disappearing in China?
- Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:00
Foreign countries should resist China's efforts to make them complicit in the abuse of human rights.
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China's Double Game on Terrorism
- Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:00
Like Tibetans, Uighurs seek freedom from oppression, but Beijing calls them extremists.
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Walking Out on China
- Thu, 09/15/2011 - 12:00
YUNNAN PROVINCE, in southwestern China, has long been the exit point for Chinese who yearn for a new life outside the country.
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