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A tussle in China over the Communist Party bowing to the Constitution
A movement in China to make the Communist Party subordinate to the national constitution has conservatives fighting back.
Peter Ford
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Why China is welcoming both Israel’s Netanyahu and Palestinians’ Abbas
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.
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Family of blind activist Chen Guangcheng ‘tormented’ in China
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.
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China cozies up to Iceland in race for Arctic resources
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.
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Friend or frenemy? For China, key issue is how US really views it
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.
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China’s Xi signals limited shift away from North Korea
Chinese President Xi Jinping took an unusually harsh tone this weekend on the North Korea crisis, saying that no country should be allowed to upset world peace.
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Beijing is booming, but talent is leaving due to bad air
The horrifyingly bad air in Beijing is driving something of an expat exodus — as well as one by young Chinese executive types. The past three months have seen the worst air quality on record.
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Google’s Eric Schmidt goes to Myanmar
Google is the first high-profile tech company executive to visit Myanmar in the wake of reforms that prompted Western nations to ease sanctions following decades of military dictatorship.
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China’s pig dumping scandal puts spotlight on illegal pork trade
On Wednesday, 46 men were jailed for selling meat from sick pigs near where farmers were believed to dump some 6,000 diseased pigs into a river that supplies drinking water to Shanghai.
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Chinese Communist Party: 20-somethings unsentimental
The Chinese Communist Party inspires little support among young Chinese professionals: the best they can say is that it’s a necessary nuisance.
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Chinese police suspect man who stabbed 23 kids ‘influenced’ by doomsday rumor
Just hours before the Newtown, Conn., massacre, a man stabbed 23 children in a rural Chinese elementary school.
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China’s leadership change is disturbing the corridors of power
Officials at some top level Chinese government meetings have been banned from simply reading their notes and have been encouraged to engage in real discussion.
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Spike in Tibetan self-immolations draws international attention to China
Today, yet another Tibetan died after he set himself on fire in protest. And neither the Chinese authorities nor exiled Tibetan leaders seem able, or willing, to halt the recent spike in such incidents.
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Why one of China’s richest men is squaring off against Obama in court
Wu Jialiang, CEO of Ralls Corp. is challenging Obama’s refusal on national security grounds to let him build a wind farm in America, marking the first such high level case in the US from a Chinese firm.
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China’s passport propaganda baffles experts
China is issuing passports with a map of the disputed South China Sea labeled as part of China.
