Torbjørn Færøvik's Blog, page 1331

Q. and A.: David Shambaugh on the Risks to Chinese Communist Rule

The China expert believes the once powerful Chinese Communist Party is going down the drains. Read more

Increasingly Difficult for Chinese Men to Find Wives

Compared to three years ago, the most obvious change in Li Zhao’s hometown was the increasing difficulty of finding a wife. There are less girls in the rural countryside now, and their requirements have become much higher. Read more

How China Defines Terrorism

In a new draft law, Beijing has opted for its own definition. Read more

China’s New Silk Road and Its Impact on Xinjiang

However, China’s newly unveiled Silk Road Economic Belt initiative in effect ties Central Asia in with the restive Xinjiang region, which opens up a new angle of interest – namely, what impact the New Silk Road is likely to have on the Uighur minority in Xinjiang. Read more

Where Beijing’s Trash Is Reborn

For the past year, I’ve been photographing the fringes of Beijing, the areas just beyond the tentacles of one of the world’s most extensive subway networks, where the city just meets the countryside. Read more

At Chinese Political Meetings, the Fashion Is Restraint

The frugal tone President Xi Jinping set after he assumed power in late 2012 and opened a war on official graft has been on full displayin Beijing this week during the annual full sessions of the National People’s Congress and its advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Read more

National security? China ready to slam door on foreign NGOs.

After years of operating in a precarious legal limbo, foreign non-governmental organizations in China are facing a moment of truth that could force many of them to close their doors. Read more

The father searching for his abducted son

An illegal market in children has developed in China, in which babies are being openly sold online. Police say many of the victims are from the estimated 20,000 children abducted each year - a crime with a devastating impact on separated children and parents. Read more

China's rubber-stamp parliament is a billionaires' club

Want to be a billionaire? Head to Beijing, where more than 100 are taking part in the annual gatherings in China's rubber-stamp parliament. Read more

China’s “factory girls” have grown up—and are going on strike

Female workers in China's factories have become more willing to step up for their own rights, and those of others. Read more