Challenging China’s Green Leap Forward
Despite all of the progress touted by Chinese authorities in their drive to become the global leader in solar energy, The Nation’s Lucia Green-Weiskel writes that China’s clean-tech industry still...
View ArticlePollution Effects Glaring, But Can China Adapt?
A new summary of scientific data indicates that outdoor air pollution led to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010, according to The New York Times’ Edward Wong: The data on which the analysis...
View ArticleWhen Bad News Is Good News For CCP
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, professor of Chinese history and author of several books on China, tries to see the silver lining in recent gathering clouds, by showing that bad news for others can be good news...
View ArticleXi Jinping, Confucius and Austerity
At Foreign Affairs, John Delury writes that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s austerity drive has less to do with macroeconomic policy and GDP growth, as it does in the West, and more to do with the...
View ArticleChina After Tiananmen: Money, Yes; Ideas, No
The New York Review of Books reprints a chapter by Perry Link in Rowena He’s Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China, in which he discusses the legacy of the June 4th, 1989...
View ArticleIs Mao Still Dead?
A long-running and unusually crowded discussion at ChinaFile addresses the question “Is Mao Still Dead?” The scholars and experts invited to explain the significance and meaning of the “hard...
View ArticleWhat the West Should Know About Xi Jinping
In the New Statesman, Jonathan Fenby provides a rundown of Xi Jinping’s leadership, the ways in which he has amassed power, and the challenges he is facing as he becomes a, “strongman who defends the...
View ArticleEric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems
In a newly published talk from last month’s TEDGlobal 2013 conference, venture capitalist Eric X. Li reprises his defense of China’s one-party system, arguing that contrary to Western assumptions, it...
View ArticleXi’s China: Get Used To It
At ChinaFile, Gavekal Dragonomics’ Arthur R. Kroeber offers a relatively upbeat assessment of Xi Jinping’s political and economic leadership, and takes issue with views of China in which “no problem...
View ArticleA Blind Lawyer vs. Blind Chinese Power
At The New York Review of Books, Evan Osnos discusses “The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China” by Chen Guangcheng. Osnos describes Chen’s activism and long house...
View ArticleWill Stock Market Crash Threaten Xi’s Credibility?
While China’s stock markets plunged in June, the government took a number of steps to actively intervene and stop the slide. On Monday, China shares dropped 9%, with ripple effects quickly felt across...
View ArticleAfter Tianjin, Shandong Blast Underlines Safety Gaps
An explosion at a Shandong chemical plant on Saturday has further highlighted safety concerns in the wake of the deadly blasts that killed 129 in Tianjin earlier this month. The New York Times’ Dan...
View ArticleWhy China Is Turning Back to Confucius
In the Wall Street Journal, Jeremy Page takes an in-depth look at Xi Jinping’s turn toward Confucianism as part of an effort to establish traditional Chinese culture as a global force on par with...
View ArticleLaw Scholar Calls for Youth League Transparency
In recent weeks, a number of individuals have forcefully spoken out against the tightening climate for journalists, activists, lawyers, and others whose work may challenge authorities. Prominent...
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Badiucao (巴丢草): Cross-Strait Birthday Wishes
President Xi Jinping rang in the 95th birthday of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1 with a wide-ranging speech in which he railed against corruption, challenges to China’s sovereignty, and...
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