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Photo of the Day: Henry Kissinger meets Li Keqiang
So this is pretty amazing. Henry Kissinger, the U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser who paved the way for U.S. president Richard M. Nixon’s historic visit in February 1972 and...
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Glamorous singer Peng Liyuan reshapes role of China’s first lady
Guest post by Michael Cole When asked, “Who is Xi Jinping?” a Beijing wit might respond, “He is Peng Liyuan’s husband.” Xi’s long slog to the top post in China’s Communist Party (中国共产党) was achieved by...
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With the end of Bo Xilai’s trial, is Xi Jinping co-opting the ‘Chongqing model’?
It’s been perhaps the most sensational rise and fall of a top Chinese official in a generation, but the corruption trial against former Chongqing party leader Bo Xilai (薄熙来) wrapped up this week with...
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Hong Kong: One country, one-and-a-half systems?
Normally, an unofficially referendum conducted online isn’t worth paying much attention — just ask the residents of Venice who organized a deeply flawed, overwrought poll on Venetian independence that...
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Xinjiang nationalism challenges Beijing’s alternative national vision
Guest post by Christopher Skutnik Amid stories of missing airplanes, transnational warfare, and deadly diseases, a somewhat less visceral part of the world has been sporadically popping up in the...
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Taiwan warily eyes battle of wills between Beijing and Hong Kong
Photo credit to Reuters / Toby Chang. In Hong Kong, they may be protesting with umbrellas, but in Taiwan earlier this year, it was sunflowers. As Beijing locks itself into what now seems like a...
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China has self-interested incentives for a bilateral climate deal
When you walk through the streets of New York or Washington or even Houston or Los Angeles today, the air is clear — by at least global standards. That’s due, in part to the 1963 Clean Air Act in the...
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China’s “crisis” continues…
Just a reminder to everyone freaking out about the secondary effects of China’s equity markets: the Shanghai composite was trading much, much lower — even after today’s “crash” — on this day exactly...
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Ma-Xi meeting takes place with Kuomintang’s political woes looming
Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese president Xi Jinping shake hands before their historic meeting in Singapore (Kua Chee Siong / Straits Times) As far as Taiwanese public opinion goes, the...
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Tsai rides green wave to landslide in transformational Taiwanese election
Tsai Ing-wen, the first woman to lead a country in the Chinese-speaking world, won a landslide victory in Taiwan’s presidential election Saturday. (Facebook) It’s not an exaggeration to say that the...
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