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CHINA IN AFRICA: THE NEW IMPERIALISTS?

Thu, 06/13/2013 - 00:00

It happened in Zambia like it could happen elsewhere in Africa. Chinese investors made deals with the government to mine its natural resources, filling federal coffers with billions of dollars.

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The long road from Guantanamo to Switzerland

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:49

Illegally imprisoned for eight years, three former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp have found refuge in Switzerland. Three others fell foul of administrative hurdles in Bern. swissinfo.ch looks at where they are now.

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With dreams and irony, Chinese react to Xi's U.S. summit

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 00:00
President Obama walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands on Saturday in Rancho Mirage, Calif. (Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)

A day after Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Obama wrapped up their summit at the Sunnylands retreat in California, China's state-run media offered sunny coverage of the meeting.

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Rising Red tide: China encircles U.S. by sailing warships in American waters, arming neighbors

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 00:00

China has been quietly taking steps to encircle the United States by arming western hemisphere states, seeking closer military, economic, and diplomatic ties to U.S. neighbors, and sailing warships into U.S. maritime zones.

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Beyond the Great Firewall: How and What China Censors

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 00:00

China’s lack of transparency has long posed a daunting challenge to outside observers trying to understand what the government’s interests, goals, and intentions are.

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The Head of China's Petitioning Office

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 00:00

Why Barack Obama can't afford to take human rights off the agenda when he meets with Xi Jinping.

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Obama’s Meeting with China’s Communist Party General Secretary

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 00:00

President Obama and the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, will meet June 7–8 in California.

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Sunnylands Summit: US-China Relations in Obama’s Second Term

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 00:00
Xi Jinping, now China’s president, visits the White House while serving as vice president in February 2012. Photo credit: Lan Hongguang, Xinhua

President Barack Obama will host President Xi Jinping at Sunnylands, the California estate of the late Walter and Leonore Annenberg, for two days of informal talks on June 7-8.

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China’s Ethnic Song and Dance

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 00:00
A Uighur woman sewing in her home in the old town of Kashgar, in southwestern Xinjiang. Photo: European Pressphoto Agency

In China’s worst single outburst of ethnic violence in four years, 21 people died last month in the far western region of Xinjiang. But never mind that.

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Annual Report 2013 - The state of the world's human rights - China

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 00:00

The authorities maintained a stranglehold on political activists, human rights defenders and online activists, subjecting many to harassment, intimidation, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance.

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