Torbjørn Færøvik's Blog, page 1328

China's anti-corruption crackdown reaches U.S.

Beijing believes at least 150 corrupt Chinese officials have fled to America, according to state media, and has sent U.S. authorities a list of the "priority cases" it is targeting. Read more 

The Sinocism China Newsletter, March 27, 2015

Get smarter about China. Read more

China's Master Plan for Remaking Its Courts

The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) Court Reform Plan Outline has left most of the world confused about what it means, surprisingly including Chinese judges. Read more

Suspended Sri Lankan Port Project Complicates Sirisena's Trip to China

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is headed to China this week, both to pay a state visit to Beijing and to attend the annual Boao Forum in Hainan. It will be Sirisena’s first chance to interact directly with China’s top leaders since he came into office in January, after running in part on a promise to scrutinize foreign (including Chinese) investment in Sri Lanka. Read more

Opinion: The chilling reality of China's cyberwar on free speech

The Chinese government has declared the Internet to be the new battlefield in its fight againt "pornography and unlawful information". Read more

China’s Hidden Children

It might seem impossible that 13 million children could escape the notice of the central Chinese government, but this is exactly what was revealed in the 2010 census. Read more

Why Do People Keep Predicting China's Collapse?

The temptation to make predictions about China is probably irresistible, because it is arguably the most important contemporary case in international relations. Thus, a few Western observers have risked their professional reputations by acting as prophets. Read more

China's checkbook diplomacy is coming of age

This month European governments chose, in an ill-coordinated scramble for advantage, to join a nascent, Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in defiance of Washington's misgivings. Read more

Unstoppable: China's Secret Plan to Subvert Taiwan

Mao Zedong reportedly once said that warfare is 70 percent political. Arguably, no conflict in recent times has adhered to this concept more faithfully than China’s ongoing campaign to “reunite” Taiwan with the “Mainland.” Read more

Indonesian President Says China Has No Legal Claim to South China Sea

President Joko Widodo says one of China’s main claims to the majority of the South China Sea had no legal basis in international law, but Jakarta wanted to remain an “honest broker” in one of Asia’s most thorny territorial disputes. Read more