China news and analysis to 14 October not surprisingly focuses on the CCP Congress which gets underway on the 18th, including a selection of the many helpful guides and commentaries on the Congress, plus pandas. Politics Under Xi Jinping, China is turning back to dictatorship (Financial Times, 11 October) For the first time in nearly … Continue reading Not just pandas! China news in the week to 14 October
China news to 7 October including CCP increases control over companies in China, Sun Zhengcai expelled from party, pollution targets and modernising the legal system. Politics Communist party asserts control over China Inc (Financial Times, 3 October) China’s Communist party is making clear that it expects to dictate business decisions — not only at state-owned enterprises, … Continue reading NOT JUST PANDA’S! CHINA NEWS IN THE FORTNIGHT TO 7 OCTOBER
Written by Tom Fowdy. Misleadingly attributed as allies, China’s contemporary relationship with Pyongyang is rooted in its strategic value against the United States. As North Korea’s provocative behaviour stifles China’s regional ambitions by inviting a greater U.S presence into North East Asia, the Xi Jinping premiership has sought to navigate between the problematic pressures of … Continue reading Sanctions Diplomacy: The American Factor in contemporary China-North Korea Relations
News from China in the week to 23 September, including US-China trade, Scotland's links with China, Chinese innovation, academics and students at Chinese universities encouraged to post propaganda online and a 'Faustian pact' in Australia? Economy US envoy brands China an ‘unprecedented threat’ to world trade (SCMP, 19 September) China’s economic model represents an … Continue reading NOT JUST PANDAS! NEWS FROM CHINA IN THE WEEK TO 23RD SEPTEMBER
News from China in the week to 2 September, including date set for 19th Congress, plans for 'flying train' and UK PM calls on Xi to do more to curb N Korea. Politics The big political news of the week was the announcement that the CCP's twice-a-decade get together (the party’s 19th National Congress) will … Continue reading Not just pandas! News from China in the week to 2nd September
News from China in the week to 26 August, including censoring academic articles, Britain's responsibilities to Hong Kong, Party take over at Tibetan Buddhist centre and US investigates Chinese trade practices. Britain & China There has been considerable coverage in the UK and around the world of Cambridge University Press' decision to unblock articles they … Continue reading Not just pandas! News from China 20-26 August
Written by Caterina Bellinetti. Compromise seems to be the word of the century. Compromise also seems to be the reason why Cambridge University Press (CUP) initially agreed to censor certain contents of The China Quarterly at the request of the Chinese government. The first statement that CUP published read that they: “will only consider blocking … Continue reading On Academic Freedom and Integrity
News stories about China from the last week. Life in China Army Takes Shot at Popular Tencent Mobile Game (Caixin, 8 August) School-age teens aren’t the only ones getting hooked on “Honour of Kings,” the wildly popular mobile game from internet titan Tencent. Young officers in China’s military are also falling prey to the game, … Continue reading Not just pandas! News from China 6-12 August 2017
News stories about China from the last week. Life in China China gripped by censored essay on Beijing (BBC, 1 August) A candid opinion piece describing the growing difficulties of living in Beijing appears to have become the target of Chinese government censorship. The essay, entitled "Beijing has 20 million people pretending to have a … Continue reading Not just pandas! News from China 5 August 2017
Written by Avital Avina. Liu Xiaobo was not a name I was familiar with until his death. I might have heard about him in passing in a Chinese history class or on the news, but who the man was and what he did, and sacrificed, for China seemed to have slipped me by. This all … Continue reading Liu Xiaobo dies at 61: a look at his life.
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