Southern Daily: County-level City Buys Social Stability at a High Price
Southern Daily reports on the price of social stability in Guangdong Province. While economic growth has often been cited as the key to social stability, officials of Lianjiang, Guangdong say social...
View ArticleKerry Brown: How China is Weaker than it Looks
Kerry Brown, a senior fellow with the Asia Programme at Chatham House in London, writes in the Diplomat: These days, many looking at China from the outside see its towering economic statistics and...
View ArticleWell-Oiled Security Apparatus in China Stifles Calls for Change
The New York Times reports on the Chinese security apparatus that cracks down on activists and dissidents, and the relationship between Beijing and the provincial governments that carry out the orders...
View ArticleHoward W. French: Don’t Dismiss a Jasmine Moment in China
For the Atlantic, Howard French writes that the Jasmine Revolution in China, despite recent media reports to the contrary, has been a great success: To be clear, the argument here is not that China is...
View ArticleChina Ready to Quell Disquiet over New Environmental Policies
In the Guardian, Jonathan Watts writes about the links between new policies on the environment and on domestic security announced at the NPC meetings, and the public reaction to both: The praise was...
View ArticleFrank Ching: Don’t Look for Jasmine Revolution or Tea in China
For Yale Global, Frank Ching writes about what the Chinese government’s reaction to the non-existent Jasmine Revolution protests means for the country: From the start, the plan sounded like public...
View ArticleVideo: John Garnaut: Is China Becoming a Mafia State?
The USC U.S.-China Institute has posted the video of a talk by John Garnaut, China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, in which he looks at whether or not China is becoming a Mafia...
View ArticleChina Sends Anti-terrorism Unit to Restive West
Following an outbreak of violence in Xinjiang, the Chinese government is sending its elite Snow Leopard anti-terrorism squad to the region ahead of an international trade convention, AP reports: The...
View ArticleOrganized Wukan Villagers Plan Next Steps
Villagers in Wukan snubbed the request of local Communist Party officials to discuss a possible resolution to the standoff on Sunday, as they continue to await the release of Xue Jinbo’s body and a...
View ArticleChina Arrests Man Suspected of Killing 11
Although stories of serial killers are generally unknown, China has arrested a man suspected of killing 11 in Yunnan Province. Aside from murder, the suspect has been accused of dismembering, burning,...
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Machine Guns: Not Just for Soldiers Anymore
While the world bites its nails over China’s military growth, China itself has more internal concerns. 2012 marks the second year since national spending on “public security” has surpassed that of the...
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In Provincial Capital, Display of Police Force (Update)
An special police officer in Taiyuan. Update: Additional photos added at end of article. Mainland media outlet Hexun reports a display of police might in Taiyuan, Shanxi in preparation for this...
View ArticleAcademic Outraged at U.K. Visa Hukou Demand
Yu Jianrong, a professor of rural affairs at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is to meet with the British ambassador after outsourced visa processing staff insisted on seeing his hukou household...
View Article‘Cloud Atlas’ Lands in China, 35 Minutes Lighter
The genre-spanning Cloud Atlas debuts in China on January 31st in an incarnation almost a quarter shorter than the original cut, courtesy of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. From...
View ArticlePublic Increasingly Outraged by Abusive Chengguan
Abuse inflicted on China’s lower class by chengguan has long drawn public outrage. While the dictionary defines these officials as “city management” clerks, the Shanghaiist has (perhaps more...
View ArticleChengguan: Abusive or Misunderstood?
China’s urban management officers, or chengguan, are known in the news for their abuse of power and assaults on China’s lower class. The notorious reputation of China’s chengguan was exacerbated last...
View ArticleChina’s Chengguan Caught in a Vicious Cycle
Chengguan, or members of China’s various Urban Administrative Law Enforcement Bureaus, have long been known to take a heavy hand in doling out their power on unlicensed street vendors. So far this...
View ArticleReuters: Zhou Yongkang Not Direct Target of Investigation
Challenging recent claims in the South China Morning Post, Reuters reports that former security chief and Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang is not under investigation for corruption....
View ArticleRiot Police Block New Protests by Flood Victims in Yuyao
Typhoon Fitow landed in southeastern China last week, devastating many populated regions. Over the weekend, residents of flooded Yuyao, Zhejiang province gathered in protest after state-run television...
View ArticleWhy Patients in China Kill Their Doctors
Following a patient’s stabbing of three doctors last week at a Zhejiang hospital and the staff protest that ensued, Zhang Jin at Caixin Online looks at some of the causes behind increasing violence...
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