Chinese fume over Obama-Dalai Lama meeting. Will there be blowback?
President Obama is holding his third meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader. China views such meetings as interference in its affairs.
Peter Ford
Censored in Beijing: A correspondent watches himself fade to black
By Peter Ford
The Monitor’s Peter Ford knows censorship happens all the time on his China beat. But when it happened to him in an interview with CNN, he felt punched in the gut.
China’s anticorruption leaders put anticorruption activist on trial
By Peter Ford
Xu Zhiyong, the founder of China’s New Citizens’ Movement, went on trial today. His supporters vow to continue their push for greater transparency among Chinese officials.
China Wal-Mart surprise: How did fox meat get into donkey products?
By Peter Ford
Wal-Mart recalled donkey meat – a delicacy in northern China – because of contamination.
China moon landing: Beijing puts Jade Rabbit on the moon
By Peter Ford
China moon landing: China joined elite company today with the controlled landing of its “Jade Rabbit” rover on the moon. China follows the US and Soviet Union as the third country with a controlled — or “soft” — landing on the moon.
Is China’s air defense zone a game changer?
By Peter Ford
Beijing’s declaration of an air defense zone could further harm relations with Japan, but some military experts question China’s enforcement capabilities.
US universities target foreign markets. Can core values survive?
By Peter Ford
The dismissal of an outspoken academic at China’s top university has sparked renewed debate over the degree to which US universities abroad can maintain their core values.
Beijing critic ousted by Peking University
By Peter Ford
Xia Yeliang, an outspoken government critic was dismissed from his teaching job at China’s top university last month.
Korea to Japan: Time running out for ‘comfort women’ resolution
By Peter Ford
The World War II era dispute is still sharply relevant today, driving a wedge between Washington’s two biggest allies in Asia. Young Koreans protest outside the Japanese embassy weekly.
What’s behind South Korean president’s new strategy on North Korea?
By Peter Ford
Unlike her predecessor, South Korea’s President Park Gyeun-hye has not made closer links between North and South contingent on an end to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.
US debt ceiling: How risky for China and Japan?
By Justin McCurry and Peter Ford
A US default might lead China to buy American companies instead of American bonds, some analysts say.
Ahead of UN human rights review, China activist goes missing
By Peter Ford
Cao Shunli’s arrest and disappearance is part of China’s efforts to conceal its ‘very troublesome human rights record,’ says Human Rights Watch in Hong Kong.
Why disgraced Chinese official Bo Xilai may not quietly fade away
By Peter Ford
Bo Xilai’s trial transfixed China with its revelations of political skulduggery and murder. The once highly influential boss of Chongqing has two weeks to appeal his life sentence.
US: China’s human rights situation is getting worse
By Peter Ford
The top US human rights official said she was particularly worried by the way the Chinese authorities harass the relatives of dissidents.
With arrest, China signals limits to anticorruption campaign
By Peter Ford
Chinese lawyer and activist Xu Zhiyong was charged with disrupting order in a public place. But he’s been under house arrest since April.
A tussle in China over the Communist Party bowing to the Constitution
By Peter Ford
A movement in China to make the Communist Party subordinate to the national constitution has conservatives fighting back.
Why China is welcoming both Israel’s Netanyahu and Palestinians’ Abbas
By Peter Ford
The coinciding visits to Beijing of the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president this week speak to China’s growing interests in the Middle East.
Family of blind activist Chen Guangcheng ‘tormented’ in China
By Peter Ford
Prison authorities have refused a medical request for the jailed nephew of the prominent human rights activist, highlighting a pattern of persecution of activists’ relatives.
China cozies up to Iceland in race for Arctic resources
By Peter Ford
China has been paying a lot of attention to Iceland, a country with a population 5,000 times smaller than its own, as an effort to stretch its influence into the Arctic Sea.
Friend or frenemy? For China, key issue is how US really views it
By Peter Ford
Both the US and China want to tamp down the North Korea crisis. But as Secretary of State John Kerry visits Beijing this weekend, an underlying issue is mutual suspicion over strategic aims in the Pacific.