The state-backed Chinese press enjoyed a moment of schadenfreude over Snowden’s allegations that the U.S. government has infiltrated Chinese electronic targets.
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Obama Meets Xi: The View From China
The stakes were high for U.S. President Barack Obama’s sit-down with his new Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, on Friday. The landmark two-day meeting, held at Sunnylands, a private estate in Southern California, is …
TIME Cover Story: How China Views the World
This week’s TIME cover story, which is illustrated by the artist-activist Ai Weiwei, examines China’s place in the world as it forges ahead into a new decade of leadership under recently-installed President Xi Jinping. For years, …
Fire in Chinese Poultry Plant Kills At Least 119
A massive, deadly fire in a poultry factory in the northeastern province of Jilin has killed at least 119 people and injured dozens more. Some reports suggest the building’s doors were locked, preventing workers from escaping the …
When China’s Netizens Attack: 10 Famous ‘Human Flesh’ Hunts
How China’s online vigilantes shake up the People’s Republic
Parents of China’s Toilet-Pipe Baby Feel the Wrath of the Country’s Netizens
Online vigilantes hound down transgressors in a nation where formal justice is often slow and hard to come by
At Prestigious Peking University, a Debate Over the ‘Chinese Dream’
Last June, China’s leader Xi Jinping visited Peking University, the country’s premier academic institution. Addressing students from the school of archaeology and museology, Xi, who was then China’s Vice President, gave a
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Chinese Premier Li’s New Delhi Visit Puts Sino-Indian Ties in the Spotlight
New Delhi commuters are not among those likely to be won over by China’s new Premier during his three-day visit to the Indian capital this week. On Monday morning, rush-hour traffic ground to a sweltering halt on one of the …
After Fighting Over Mountains, India and China Lock Horns in the Indian Ocean
In mid-April, a platoon of Chinese soldiers trooped some 20 km into territory considered India’s and pitched tents and unfurled banners. When detected by Indian forces, the Chinese refused to leave, triggering a tense three-week …
China Can Posture, but It Can’t Bring Peace to the Middle East
China’s surprising offer on Tuesday to referee peace in the Middle East offers an enticing narrative. Having emerged over the last generation as an economic colossus and budding military power, the People’s Republic might seem …
Sex, Lies and Photoshop: China’s Racy-Photo Scandals
China wouldn’t be China without the officious slogans that plaster every other wall and railing, educating citizens on the latest government policy or crackdown. But the banners and billboards that began appearing in March all over Shuangfeng, a rural county in central China’s Hunan province, bore exhortations more curious than most. …
China’s Gays and Lesbians Join the Global Debate on Same-Sex Marriage
With advocates pushing the envelope, the discussion on the legal status of the gay and lesbian community in China is evolving quickly.
Postquake Fundraising Flop Exposes Credibility Failure at China’s Red Cross
When a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Lushan county in southwestern China’s Sichuan province on April 20, killing almost 200 people, the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) did exactly what you would expect of China’s largest …