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Cain Nunns

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China's Poly Group: The most important company you've never heard of

By Cain Nunns | 02/26/13

Is it an art auctioneer, a miner, an arms dealer, a front for the army? Probably all of the above.

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Art of the state: China's Party-run auction house is booming

By Cain Nunns | 02/19/13

Gaining fast on the likes of Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Beijing's Poly auction company is an opaque but unstoppable powerhouse.

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China fakes new Asean reality

By Cain Nunns | 11/26/12

Not happy with its diplomatic reality, China creates a new one.

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Wang deal winds down clock on Bo scandal

By Cain Nunns | 09/24/12

Wang Lijun, the police officer at the center of the Bo Xilai scandal, awaits his fate.

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Taiwan’s judicial ills blunt democratic gains

By Cain Nunns | 08/30/12

Former US attorney Ramsey Clark says Taiwan's government will be to blame if former President Chen Shui-bian dies in prison.

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China's bridges and dams crumble under corruption

By Cain Nunns | 07/20/12

Collateral damage of China's building spree, from collapsing bridges to construction site mudslides.

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Taiwan's free-trade woes

By Cain Nunns, Global Post | 05/22/12

A three-way pact between China, Japan and South Korea could create a rival to the world's largest free-trade zones in size.

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Beijing’s pay-for-media-play

By Cain Nunns, Global Post | 03/23/12

Taiwanese news coverage is the best money can buy, says National Taiwan University journalism lecturer Chang Chin-hua.

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Taiwan may be one remarkable democracy

By Cain Nunns | 02/01/12

In Asia, some urge the increasingly reform-minded Burma to follow the example of Taiwan, an erstwhile dictatorship that has become a regional poster child for functioning democracy.