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Where is the "Steve Jobs of China?"

Innovation is the key to China's fututre. What follows is an excerpt from my new ebook “Beta China: The Dawn of an Innovation Generation,” which is the result of a reporting trip to China last year, writes Hamish McKenzie. Read more

China at the crossroads of renewal and breakdown

Over a three-week train journey along the path of Chairman Mao’s historic Long March of the 1930s, correspondent Mark MacKinnon travelled into the economic giant’s heartland, beyond the horizons of Beijing and Shanghai. From rice paddies to dance clubs and corporate towers, he found the people of the rising power hopeful about prosperity but furious over corruption, and unsure of the promises of

Thousands Rally for Democracy in Hong Kong

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents gathered in the rain for an annual rally for democracy, on the anniversary of the territory’s return to China from British rule in 1997. Organizers estimate that 430,000 people took part in the protest—which would make it the largest since 2004—while police estimated the rally’s size at 66,000 at its peak. Read more

Seven years in Tibet: 2 million 'displaced' by Chinese relocation policy

More than two million people have been displaced in Tibet over the past seven
years as China operates a policy of forced “mass rehousing and relocation”
against the indigenous population, according to a human rights report. Read more

Ny lov: Besøk dine gamle foreldre!

Kina har vedtatt en ny lov som pålegger barn å besøke sine gamle foreldre. Loven sier ingenting om hvor ofte besøkene må finne sted, hellet ikke hvilken straff som venter lovbryterne. Les mer

US Envoy Shown a 'Peaceful' Lhasa During Visit

A visit to Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa by a senior U.S. diplomat last week was highly staged, with all signs of a typically heavy security presence removed from central areas in the city before his delegation’s arrival, according to a source inside Tibet. Read more

China 'stages' large military drill in Xinjiang

China staged a large military exercise in the ethnically-divided Xinjiang region on Saturday, where clashes this week killed at least 35 people. Tanks, army vehicles, and army personnel blocked access to streets in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, where army units carried out an exercise, an AFP reporter present at the scene said. Large sections of the city’s centre were shut down for the exercise, she

Chinese Dream? American Dream?

This article is by Chris Marquis and Zoe Yang, Associate Professor and Research Associate of the Harvard Business School. Comparing the American dream with the new Xi Jinping buzzword Chinese Dream (or China Dream), Marquis and Yang use data mined from Sina Weibo by social media analytics firm Crimson Hexagon to answer the question: What do Chinese people, at least those on the Internet, talk

How Serious Is Xi About Tackling Corruption?

Xi Jinping's overriding aim is the preservation of Communist party rule in China, as he made clear in speeches shortly after his elevation to be China's senior leader. Like his predecessors, he is obsessed with the Gorbachev phenomenon and doesn't want to be remembered in history as the Gorbachev of China. What his aim also means is that he cannot have a thorough-going anti-corruption drive

Rana Mitter: China's War With Japan

This gripping political history not only provides a detailed scholarly account of the Sino-Japanese war but also, in a prologue, offers an admirably succinct introduction to the political history of China in the first half of the 20th century. Read more