China Protests

Chinese Riot Police Tear Gas Protesters

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 02.22.2012

BEIJING — Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day...

Chinese Govt Gives In To Protesting Village

AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 02.20.2012

BEIJING -- Southern Chinese authorities have given in to key demands of protesting villagers after a nearly two-week standoff with police, agreeing in...

Chinese Riot Police Battle Second Major Protest In Weeks

AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 02.19.2012

BEIJING -- Thousands of people besieged a government office in a southern Chinese town Tuesday and blocked a highway to demand a halt to a planned coa...

Small Fishing Village Defies Chinese Government

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 02.13.2012

BEIJING — China's government is trying to defuse a revolt in a small fishing village, offering to investigate the land seizures that touched off...

Cop Charged With Drunk Driving After Police Van Crash Kills 5

AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 12.30.2011

BEIJING -- A police officer was suspected of driving a police van drunk and killing five people in a central China crash that sparked angry crowds to ...

The New Yorker: China Protests: Truth, Rumors, And A Basket Of Fruit

newyorker.com | Posted by Evan Osnos | Posted 08.14.2011

When local authorities fanned out this week into villages and factory towns around Guangzhou, they were not hunting criminals or political agitators. ...

China Protesters Burn Police Cars Over Worker Abuse

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 08.13.2011

BEIJING — Security forces patrolled the streets and manned roadblocks Tuesday in a southern Chinese city where rioting factory workers attacked ...

Voices Behind China's Protest Calls

AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 06.06.2011

SEOUL, South Korea -- Strolling past hip cafes, the young Chinese man in a white sports jacket and faded jeans looks like any other university student...

Tiananmen 2.0: Why China Is Not Immune to the Tunisia Effect

Tenzin Dorjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Tenzin Dorjee

In spite of China's image as a high-functioning economy, many of the social causes of mass discontent that exploded in the Arab world -- endemic corruption, income inequality, labor unrest, inflation, pollution -- continue to plague the nation.

Chinese 'Toxic Milk' Father JAILED For Food Safety Protests

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

BEIJING — A father who organized a support group for other parents whose children were sickened in one of China's worst food safety scandals was...

Wang Cuyun, Chinese Grandmother, Beaten And Buried Alive By Property Developers

Posted 05.25.2011

Wang Cuyun, a grandmother in Hubei, China, was beaten and buried alive by property developers after trying to protect her home, according to reports. ...

China Protests: Al Qaeda Vows Retaliation For Crackdown On Uighurs

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE: ABC News reports that Rebiya Kadeer, the head of the World Uighur Congress who lives in Fairfax, Virginia and was recently blamed by the Chin...

China Protests: Police Kill 2 Uighurs, Wound A Third

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

URUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive...

China Protests: Muslims Condemn China's Uighur Crackdown

Ankara | Posted 05.25.2011

MUSLIMS in many nations have condemned China's crackdown in its Xinjiang region where at least 156 people have been killed in unrest over the past wee...

World In Photos, July 9, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

Rebiya Kadeer: The Woman Blamed For China's Uighur Riots

The Washington Post | David Montgomery | Posted 05.25.2011

The translators kept bursting into tears. That was a problem for Rebiya Kadeer, the tiny and fiery matriarch of the Uighur diaspora, who lives in Fair...

World In Photos, July 7, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

World In Photos, July 6, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

Uighurs And China Explainer

CFR | Posted 05.25.2011

Introduction The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a territory in western China, accounts for one-sixth of China's land and is home to about...

Chinese Police Trained To Handle Recession-Induced Social Unrest

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

BEIJING — Thousands of Chinese police are being trained to deal with social unrest amid concerns that millions of rural workers who have been la...

Chinese Migrants Home for the Holidays, Perhaps Permanently this Year

Alexander Davenport | Posted 05.25.2011

Alexander Davenport

Faced with unemployment in expensive, unwelcoming urban environments, many migrants are getting an early start to their annual ritual of heading back to their home provinces for New Year.

Chinese Police Prevent Protest By Trapping Workers In Factory

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

DONGGUAN, China — Laid-off migrant worker Chen Li had red scrape marks on his right cheek from a scuffle with riot police outside his factory th...

China Sentences 2 Elderly Women To Labor Camp For Protest Plans

AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 05.25.2011

BEIJING — Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative s...

China Received 77 Olympic Protest Requests, But Approved None

AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 05.25.2011

BEIJING — Chinese authorities have not approved any of the 77 applications they received from people who wanted to hold protests during the Beij...

Tibet, China Return To Diplomacy

McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011

Chinese and Tibetan envoys on Tuesday began their first formal talks since bloody protests swept Tibetan areas of western China three months ago, in a...