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China calls out 'overcritical' U.S.

  • Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:00

Last week, the U.S. State Department released its annual report on human rights around the world. It covers nearly 200 countries,

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China factor to dominate top defence summit

  • Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:00

In the absence of a formal defence alliance like Nato, the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore has become the pre-eminent annual security gathering in the Asia-Pacific region.

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China's political storm

  • Thu, 05/31/2012 - 00:00

AS senior leaders are purged and retired provincial officials publicly call for Politburo members to be removed, it has become clear that China is at a crossroads.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Solar Disarray

  • Fri, 05/04/2012 - 00:00

China is stealing America’s solar manufacturing industry. Should we fight back—or rejoice?

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