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State Department: China deteriorating on human rights, repressing its own people
- Thu, 05/24/2012 - 21:58
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) constitutionally is the paramount authority.
Can China Have a Melting Pot?
- Thu, 05/24/2012 - 21:43
As the Bo Xilai saga continues, China watchers are struggling to make sense of what Brookings Institution scholar Cheng Li calls the biggest political crisis to strike China since at least the Tiananmen Square Incident on 1989.
The saddle saga: shifting sand in China
- Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:00
Our cyclists pit themselves against the Taklamakan desert, pedalling through sandstorms with no-one for company save the occasional passing caravan.
Kashgar's old city: the endgame
- Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:00
China's plan to transform the heart of Uyghur culture, learning and urban settlement - Kashgar old city - is well underway. The fact that the Uyghurs themselves have no voice in this process gives the experience a wider significance, says Henryk Szadziewski.
Mr. Wu'er Kaixi's Statement on Attempt to turn Himself into the Chinese Embassy
- Mon, 05/21/2012 - 00:00
A few days from now the well-known Chinese blind rights activist, Chen Guangcheng, will arrive in the U.S. to start his new life as a free man
China's suicide bomber: Hero or heroine?
- Wed, 05/16/2012 - 00:00
For 24 hours last week, it appeared China had witnessed its first female suicide bomb attack, but the perpetrator wasn't a Uyghur protester or a Tibetan separatist
Solar Disarray
- Fri, 05/04/2012 - 00:00
China is stealing America’s solar manufacturing industry. Should we fight back—or rejoice?
A look at dissidents who have left China in recent years
- Wed, 05/02/2012 - 05:59
Why would the blind legal activist who fled house arrest in China want to remain there instead of seeking asylum, as some of Chen Guangcheng’s friends have said?
Ousted Chinese Leader Is Said to Have Spied on Other Top Officials
- Thu, 04/26/2012 - 21:04
When Hu Jintao, China’s top leader, picked up the telephone last August to talk to a senior anticorruption official visiting Chongqing,
In China, Rumblings of an Ideological Campaign
- Thu, 04/26/2012 - 20:57
In the wake of the dismissal of Politburo member Bo Xilai, is another political storm brewing?











