May 2012

State Department: China deteriorating on human rights, repressing its own people

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 22:16

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) constitutionally is the paramount authority.

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Can China Have a Melting Pot?

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 22:14

As the Bo Xilai saga continues, China watchers are struggling to make sense of what Brookings Institution scholar Cheng Li calls the biggest political crisis to strike China since at least the Tiananmen Square Incident on 1989.

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Are Senkakus a 'core interest' for China?

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 22:12

Senior Beijing official's remark downplayed by Tokyo, analysts

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Kashgar's old city: the endgame

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:00

China's plan to transform the heart of Uyghur culture, learning and urban settlement - Kashgar old city - is well underway. The fact that the Uyghurs themselves have no voice in this process gives the experience a wider significance, says Henryk Szadziewski.

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Uyghur Human Rights Leader Rebiya Kadeer Pays Solidarity Visit To Fukushima Disaster Survivors

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:00

World Uyghur Congress President Rebiya Kadeer wrapped up her trip to Japan by visiting tsunami survivors in Fukushima on Saturday.

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The saddle saga: shifting sand in China

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:00

Our cyclists pit themselves against the Taklamakan desert, pedalling through sandstorms with no-one for company save the occasional passing caravan.

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Zhou’s Route From Xinjiang to Party Congress Reveals Bloody Connection

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:00

On May 18 it was announced that Zhou Yongkang would be a “representative” from Xinjiang Province, the restive Uighur autonomous region in the northwest, for the upcoming 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Top Chinese military officer's planned Japan trip difficult: Fujimura

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:00

China's top uniformed military officer Gen. Guo Boxiong is unlikely to visit Japan anytime soon, having postponed a trip because of pressing business at home, top Japanese government spokesman Osamu Fujimura said Tuesday.

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China and Turkey revive Silk Road

Tue, 05/22/2012 - 00:00

The implications of the burgeoning Sino-Turkic relationship in Central Asia remain unexplored. Washington must act to guarantee everyone's strategic objectives in the region

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Tiananmen Square activist loses latest bid to return to China

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 00:00

On a warm summer night in 1989, a 21-year-old Chinese student waded into the South China Sea from a deserted beach. Still wearing his clothes and Nike sneakers, he swam to a speedboat waiting 200 yards offshore.

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