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Cyberattack Shows That China Isn’t Content to Censor Its Own Internet

Since the late 1990s, the Chinese government has been implicated in hacking with targets ranging from the Tibetan exile government to military contractors toweather satellites, for cyber espionage and monitoring of dissidents. Read more

How the New York Times is eluding censors in China

The New York Times’ English and Chinese-language websites have been blocked since an October 2012 article about the wealthy family of prime minister Wen Jiabao. But according to employees in the company, outside observers, and mainland Chinese readers, the Times is quietly pursuing a new, aggressive strategy to reach readers in China. Read more

The Guardian view on Chinese women’s rights: free the feminists

It is a month since Chinese police seized five feminists who planned to distribute stickers and leaflets to highlight sexual harassment. China under Xi Jinping has proved increasingly intolerant of civil society; last year alone, almost 1,000 activists were detained, according to the Chinese Human Rights Defenders group. Read more

China's chilling message to women

Last month Wu Rongrong was taken into custody for planning to protest on International Women's Day against sexual harassment in China. Since then, the Chinese authorities have formally detained her and four other activists for "creating disturbances." Read more

What Did China’s First Daughter Find in America?

Xi Mingze, daughter of president Xi Jinping, has completed her studies in the U.S. She studied psychology and English and lived under an assumed name. Read more

The Sinocism China Newsletter, April 7, 2015

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Water Wars: China, India and the Great Dam Rus

China’s grand plans to harness the waters of the Brahmaputra River* have set off ripples of anxiety in the two lower riparian states: India and Bangladesh. China’s construction of dams and the proposed diversion of the Brahmaputra’s waters is not only expected to have repercussions for water flow, agriculture, ecology, and lives and livelihoods downstream; it could also become another

Ten must-read books that explain modern China

China's economy is the story of the century, but the country remains difficult for us to understand. These books bridge the divide. Read more

How Xi Jinping Came to Rule China

Xi is the sixth man to rule the People’s Republic of China, and the first who was born after the revolution, in 1949. He sits atop a pyramid of eighty-seven million members of the Communist Party, an organization larger than the population of Germany. Read more

China Is Urged to Confront Its Own History

The tour guide outside the bloodstained classrooms of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the high school in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh transformed into a prison and torture center by the Khmer Rouge, paused to ask whether any tourists in the group were from China. Visibly relieved when no hands were raised, he went on to describe the enabling role that Beijing played in the Khmer