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Nå kan Norge igjen selge laks til Kina

- Etter en konstruktiv dialog mellom norske og kinesiske myndigheter den siste måneden er vi nå enige om en attest.  Dette er jeg svært tilfreds med. Det betyr at eksporten av laks til Kina kan fortsette, sier fiskeriminister Elisabeth Aspaker i en pressemelding fra Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet. Les mer

Q. and A.: Willis Barnstone on Translating Mao and Touring Beijing With Allen Ginsberg

Willis Barnstone is a polymath author of more than 70 books — a poet, translator and scholar of Gnosticism and the New Testament. But the 87-year-old also has had a long and colorful relationship with China, translating Mao Zedong’s poetry and befriending numerous Chinese artists and political leaders in the 1980s. Read more

Tiananmen Protester’s Plea to China: Let Me See My Dying Mother

On June 9, 1992, Xiong Yan embarked on the fishing boat that smuggled him out of China. Read more

At Jin Youzhi’s Funeral, a Quiet Farewell to China’s Imperial Past

The simple funeral was fitting for a man who was the last surviving sibling of China’s final emperor, but who led a commoner’s life. Read more

Fears For Hong Kong's Independent Publishers After China Book Chain Takeover

The recent takeover by Beijing's representative office in Hong Kong of a key publishing house has sparked fears of a widening ideological assault by the ruling Chinese communist party on freedom of expression in the former British colony, political commentators said. Read more

Chinese claims about Tibet lack credibility without access for international observers

After spending billions of dollars and pursuing the hyper-securitysation of Tibet, China's 2015 White Paper on Tibet is an acknowledgement that Chinese policies have failed to win the hearts and minds of the Tibetan people. Read more

Tibetan Man Dies in Second Self-Immolation Protest This Month

A Tibetan man burned himself to death in western China’s Sichuan province on Wednesday in the second self-immolation protest this month against Beijing’s rule in Tibetan areas, sources said. Nei Kyab, believed to be in his mid-40s, set himself ablaze on April 15 in the courtyard of his home in Soruma village, Choejema town, in Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) county in the Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous

China jails journalist for seven years for 'leaking state secrets'

A Chinese court jailed a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website for seven years on Friday, her lawyer said, a ruling that reflects the sensitivity surrounding the party's inner workings. Read more

Why do the Chinese hack? Fear

The Chinese government is scared of the Internet.  They are scared of the foreign ideas that it brings into China; they are scared of how it enables the Chinese people to spread knowledge about government corruption; and they are especially scared of how it was used during the “color revolutions” and the “Arab Spring.”  For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Internet is a clear threat to

Jonas Gahr Støre undrer seg over Kina

– Jeg mener det er unormalt og alvorlig at Norge ikke har et operativt politisk forhold til verdens største land. Og jeg er overrasket over at så mange år etter, er det fortsatt en veldig unormal situasjon, sier han i et intervju med DNs politiske redaktør, Kjetil B. Alstadheim, som vises på DN.no. Les mer