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U.S.-China Economic Relations—What Will the Next...
JONATHAN LANDRETH, ORVILLE SCHELL, PATRICK CHOVANECOn Monday, within hours of the announcement that Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet U.S. President Barack Obama on a visit to California on June 7-8, Tung Chee-hwa, the former Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, introduced former U.S....
Water-trading Could Exacerbate Water Shortages in China
CHINADIALOGUELarge-scale engineering projects and rigorous state control are hallmarks of the Chinese developmental model, and both have been apparent in the country’s approach to water management.A US$62 billion project to divert water from the south to the parched north is under way,...
Errors of Aggression Catch up with Underwriter
CAIXINPing An Securities Co. has been slapped with a fine by the securities regulator and will lose its stock underwriting license for three months because of its sloppy work in underwriting the initial public offering of a company that turned out to be a fraud.This is not the first...
Chinese Anxiety—In Debate About Overwork, a Glimpse...
TEA LEAF NATIONAlmost half of all Chinese report feeling “more anxiety” now than they did five years ago. What, exactly, is driving these concerns, or increasing reports of these concerns? Avid followers of China-related news might immediately think of censorship and other restrictions on...
The Wall Street Journal: Covering China Past and...
THE EDITORSThe Wall Street Journal was one of the first American publications to set up a bureau in Beijing. Since its establishment, scores of the Journal’s correspondents have traveled in and out of the country to cover China’s economic and political development. On April 30th, 2013,...
Making a Show of the News?
OUYANG BIN, ZHANG XIAORANIn what seemed like a flash on April 20, Chinese netizens dubbed TV reporter Chen Ying “the most beautiful bride” on China’s Internet. It was the day of her wedding but a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Ya’an in Sichuan province and Chen didn’t bother to change her clothes...
Sino-American Relations: Amour or Les Miserables?
WINSTON LORDWinston Lord, former United States Ambassador to China, tells us he recently hacked into the temples of government, pecking at his first-generation iPad with just one finger—a clear sign that both Beijing and Washington need to beef...
There Goes the Neighborhood
SUN YUNFAN, LEAH THOMPSONWhen, in 1996, art historian Nancy Berliner purchased a late Qing dynasty merchants’ house from Huangcun, a village in Anhui province, it was just one ordinary house among thousands like it in the picturesque Huizhou region of China. It took Berliner seven years to oversee the...
Editors’ Picks
For Many in China, the One Child Policy is Already...
LESLIE T. CHANGBefore getting pregnant with her second child, Lu Qingmin went to the family-planning office to apply for a birth permit. Officials in her husband’s Hunan village where she was living turned her down, but she had the baby anyway. She may eventually be fined $1,600—about what...
Struggling with Antonioni
ISABEL HILTONMy first sight of Beijing was puzzling. It was October 1973, at the end of a very long flight, and the city seemed so dark I could hardly believe we had arrived. In those days, flights to China were not allowed to cross Soviet airspace—the two countries had fallen out at...
The Lesser Wall
MICHAEL MEYERThere is no such place as Manchuria, but the word still resonates like a bell struck a century before. The region is now more prosaically called dongbei—the northeast—yet its contemporary toponyms sing of its imperial past, when it was the homeland of the Manchu, China’s...
Reports
“Swept Away”: Abuses Against Sex Workers in China
Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch believes the Chinese government should take immediate steps to protect the human rights of all people who engage in sex work. It should repeal the host of laws and regulations that are repressive and misused by the police, and end the practice of indiscriminate...
Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security...
United States of America Department of DefenseThe People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to pursue a long-term, comprehensive military modernization program designed to improve the capacity of its armed forces to fight and win short-duration, high-intensity regional military conflict. Preparing for potential conflict...
Photography and Video
Last Call to Prayer
KATHLEEN MCLAUGHLIN, SHARRON LOVELLChina’s Hui Muslims are unique in many respects. The country’s second-largest ethnic minority share linguistic and cultural ties with the majority in China that have allowed them to practice their religion with less interference and fewer restrictions than others, like Uighur...
Stars in the Haze
JOSHUA FRANKFlying kites is the quintessential Chinese pastime. But “wind zithers” or “paper sparrow hawks,” as they are known in Chinese, also have a long history as tools. Over millennia, Chinese have used them for measuring the wind, gauging distances, and even sending secret...
Around the Web
Former Bank Executive In China Faces Bribe Accusations
The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Yang Kun, a former vice president of the state-controlled...
The New York Times
Chen Guangcheng Issues Plea For Relatives In China
“I think the U.S. government should publicly and officially ask the Chinese government to fulfill their commitments....
BBC
China’s Entrenched Gender Gap
China’s figures for working women is high because it includes women working in the countryside, and unlike developed...
The New York Times
Why China’s Riches Won’t Bring It Freedom
China poses a challenge to the Anglo-American faith in the global march of liberalism and democracy. It has...