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In China, a Week Full of Trials Over Dissent

This is likely to be a busy, and somber, week for China’s human rights lawyers. At least eight citizens are due to stand trial for participating in the New Citizens Movement and other protest groups that last year tried to push the ruling Communist Party to accept greater accountability and political liberalization. Read more

China: Who Uses Offshore Tax Havens

Among thousands of Chinese users of tax havens revealed in the ICIJ files are relatives of the country’s top leaders and some of China’s wealthiest men and women. Explore their links to power and to the offshore economy. Read more

For Chinese women, unmarried motherhood remains the final taboo

Sex outside marriage was illegal in China until 1997 but the bigotry that led mothers to abandon children is finally shifting. Read more

Guardian blocked in China after story about leadership's offshore wealth

The Guardian appeared to be partially blocked in China on Wednesday after revealing that relatives of the country's top political and military leaders are making use of offshore companies in the Caribbean. The report, based on leaked financial documents, showed that the brother-in-law of president Xi Jinping and son and son-in-law of former premier Wen Jiabao were among more than a dozen family

Leaked Records Reveal Offshore Holdings of China’s Elite

Close relatives of China’s top leaders have held secretive offshore companies in tax havens that helped shroud the Communist elite’s wealth, a leaked cache of documents reveals. The confidential files include details of a real estate company co-owned by current President Xi Jinping’s brother-in-law and British Virgin Islands companies set up by former Premier Wen Jiabao’s son and also by his

Kina, Japan og fortiden

På direktiv fra Beijing har Kinas ambassadører i utlandet
kastet seg inn i den pågående propagandakrigen mot Japan. Så også landets
ambassadør i Norge, Zhao Yun, som bidrar med en artikkel i Aftenposten 16.
januar.


Av Torbjørn Færøvik

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Artikkelen er på mange måter godt skrevet. Ambassadøren viser til den japanske statsminister Shinzo Abes nylige besøk i det omstridte

Japanese ambassador: China paints a false portrait of Japan

It is ironic that a country that has increased its own military spending by more than 10 per cent a year for the past 20 years should call any country “militarist.” China’s military budget is now the second largest in the world, and more than twice that of Japan. Read more

Laksenæringen er bekymret for Dalai Lamas besøk

Prinsipper og verdier spiller åpenbart liten rolle for norsk laksenæring, som har begynt å grue seg til Dalai Lanas Norge-besøk i mai. Næringen er redd for at et møte mellom Dalai Lama og representanter for regjeringen skal påvirke forholdet mellom Norge og Kina i negativ retning. Professor Rolv Petter Amdal ved BI sier regjeringen står overfor et dilemma. Les mer

Kinas forurensning setter spor i USA

Forurenset luft fra Kina driver over Stillehavet og påvirker i økende grad miljøet på USAs vestkyst, sier eksperter. Les mer

Weixin - Kinas svar på Facebook?

En kinesisk entreprenør går nye veier. Les mer