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Tripping in China: Barack Obama's Challenge

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: New Economy, China, Trade, China Climate Change, Obama China, China Human Rights, World News
Robert L. Borosage

For Obama's trip to Asia, the White House paints a full agenda -- Afghanistan, human rights, North Korean nukes, climate change, trade relations, and the economy. But it's really just the economy, stupid.

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China Activist Yang Zili Risks Jail With Letter To Obama

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

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BEIJING — Thousands of people will send letters to President Barack Obama this year. Few besides Yang Zili are likely to risk jail by doing so. ...

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What to Expect from President Obama's Visit to China

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: China-U.S. Military Ties, U.S. Foreign Policy Toward China, Obama November Visit to China, Hu Jintao, Beijing, China Censorship, People's Liberation Army, China Human Rights, Barack Obama, Climate Change, China Rule of Law, Bilateral Agreement Between China and the U.S. On Climate Change, Robert Gates, Xu Zhiyong, China Currency Manipulation, Xu Caihou, Peking University, World News
Elizabeth Lynch

While the White House has yet to release President Obama's schedule, expect President Obama and President Hu Jintao to discuss military ties, global economic health, climate change and human rights.

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China: "Kingdom of Dwarves" Theme Park Showcases Little People

GlobalPost | Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Drawf, China Theme Park, China Censorship, China, China Human Rights, Midget, Kingdom of Dwarves, World News

KUNMING, China -- The casting call went out across China earlier this year, in newspapers and online: Entertainers needed for a new theme park, no spe...

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Mao Takes Manhattan: Empire State Building Goes Red and Yellow for China

David Flumenbaum | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Empire State Building Red and Yellow, Empire State Building, Empire State Building China, China 60th Anniversary, Mao Zedong, China, China Tibet, China-Anniversary, China Human Rights, New York China, Tibet China Anniversary, Empire State Building Red, Empire State Building in Red, Empire State Building Lit in Red and Yellow, Lit the Empire State Building for China, Empire State Building Red Lights, Mao Takes Manhattan, New York News
David Flumenbaum

Wednesday night, the Empire State Building illumined its spire with red and yellow lights in honor of China. While this isn't the first time it's gone red and yellow, it's the first time it's been done for Mao.

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Passing Oceania

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.03.2009 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Bob Cesca, Citizen Journalism, George Orwell 1984, Glenn Beck Fox News, Naomi Klein, William Gibson, Surveillance, China, China Human Rights, Arianna Huffington, Eyewitness Fallacy, Media Matters, Iran Protests, Media Criticism, Youtube, Glenn Beck, Gibson's Law, Nico Pitney, Big Brother, Media News
Matt Osborne

For all our worries about Big Brother intruding on our lives, Big Brother has no way to stop individuals from intruding on him.

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China Concubines Return Thanks To Increasing Capitalism

The Independent | Clifford Coonan | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: China Capitalism, China Concubines, Chinese Businessmen, Chinese Economy, Mistresses in China, Mao Tse-Tung, Culture of Concubines, China Human Rights, China, Concubines, Modern Concubine, China's Concubines Make a Comeback, Capitalism, Chinese Concubines, Concubines in China, World News

From the Independent Mao Tse-tung tried to stamp the custom out as a relic of feudalism, but the return of capitalism to China has also meant a major...

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Xu Zhiyong And 2 More Activists Released By China Without Explanation

nytimes.com | MICHAEL WINES | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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BEIJING Chinese authorities unexpectedly released three political activists from detention on Sunday, including one whose case had drawn global attent...

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The Will to Survive: One Man's Harrowing Escape from Tibet

Rebecca Novick | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

Read More: China Tibet Crackdown, China-Tibetan-Protesters, Human Rights, Tibet Protests, China Tibetan Protesters, Tibetan Protesters, Tibet, China, China Tibet, Tibet Protests China, China Tibet Uprising, China Human Rights, Tibet-Protests, World News
Rebecca Novick

Tsewang managed to survive for fourteen months, 16,000 feet up in the mountains, with untreated bullet wounds, in extreme pain, living only on barley flour, butter and tea.

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Will The U.S. and China Ever See Eye-To-Eye?

Julie Farby | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Uighurs, Debt, Obama, World, China, Economy, Yao Ming, Obama China, National Debt, China Us Debt, China Human Rights, Red China, World News
Julie Farby

To show the world we're not going to risk relations with our favorite creditor on account of a couple of crushed Uighurs, Obama dropped the whole human rights spiel in favor of sports!

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China Executions To Be Reduced To "An Extremely Small Number"

Huffington Post | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

Read More: Executions, Capital Punishment, Human Rights, China Capital Punishment, Foreign Affairs, China Executions, Death Penalty, China Human Rights, China Death Penalty, China, Chinese Executions, Advocacy, World News

China, which executes more people per year than any other country, vowed this week to cut back on the habit, ABC News reports. According to Supreme P...

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A New Approach to Human Rights in China

Jaeah J. Lee | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: US China Relations, Obama China, China Human Rights, Geithner China, Clinton China, China, World News
Jaeah J. Lee

If the United States wants to see real progress in the bilateral relationship and to partner with China to address global challenges, it will have to become more innovative in how it attempts to move China on human rights.

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China's Civil Rights Lawyers: The New Enemies of the State

Rebecca Novick | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

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Rebecca Novick

in recent months Beijing has been busy targeting home-grown adversaries -- Chinese civil rights lawyers -- in a series of moves that has been described as "an all-out attack."

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Why China's Leaders Need to Worry About Recent Events in Iran: Twitter Trumps the Great Firewall

Peter Scheer | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Election, Iran Protests, China Tibet, China Human Rights, Iranian Election, Censorship, China, Chinese Censorship, World News
Peter Scheer

Both Iran and China are modernizing autocracies committed by a combination of ideology and fear to maintaining control over their peoples' access to information. Iran's lesson for China's leaders is that the technologies of censorship, despite their increasing sophistication, may not be sufficient to prevent determined citizens from using technologies of communication to organize dissent and political opposition on a mass scale.

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Liu Xiaobo Arrested In China

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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BEIJING — A well-known Chinese dissident who co-authored a bold political manifesto calling for greater freedom and an end to one-party rule has...

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Getting Along with the Invaders: Bishkek Versus Kashgar

Alexander Davenport | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo Uighurs, Xinjiang Province, Guantanamo Detainees, China Human Rights, China, Uighurs, Kyrgyzstan, World News, Kyrgyzstan Russia, World News
Alexander Davenport

My experiences out West revealed the simmering race relations between the Han and Uighur peoples, which helps explain the necessity of sending Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to Palau and not back to China.

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Iran Is the World's First Pink Revolution

Diane Francis | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Iran, Human Rights, Islamic Republic of Iran, Revolution, Ukraine, Orange Revolution, Democracy, International Women's Rights, Neda, China, China Human Rights, Rebellion, Tiananmen Square, World News
Diane Francis

Iranian women are standing shoulder to shoulder in a way never before seen in a society that mistreats them so severely.

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China Gay Pride Week Squelched By State

Christian Science Monitor | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: China Gay Rights, Gay Rights, China Gay Pride, Gay Pride Week, Foreign Affairs, Gay, China Free Speech, China Gays, Gay Pride, China, China Human Rights, Advocacy, World News

Police warned two Shanghai venues against hosting events, even as a state-run daily hailed the festival as a "showcase" of progress....

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Hardware Risk: China Targets PC Manufacturers

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

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Michael Shtender-Auerbach

What happens when the Chinese request all PC's include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?

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The Tibet Question: A Chinese Think Tank Dares to Ask

Rebecca Novick | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Tibet Protests, China Tibetan Protesters, Tibetan Protesters, China-Human-Rights, Tibet, China Tibet, China, China Tibet Uprising, China Human Rights, Dalai Lama, Buddhism, World News
Rebecca Novick

The report challenges the official government position that the Dalai Lama "incited" the protests and criticizes the government's response.

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On the Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen: It's Still the Economy, Stupid!

John Wagner Givens | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: College Students, Friedrich Van Hayek, Zhao Ziyang, Beijing-China, Inflation, Protest, Jobs, Economic Growth, China, China Economy, China Human Rights, Tiananmen Square, World News
John Wagner Givens

The fact that Tiananmen has yet to have a sequel can be explained largely by the economic success of the regime since 1989.

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China: Tiananmen's Unhealed Wounds (VIDEO)

Human Rights Watch | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: China Tiananmen Square, China Tiananmen Crackdown, Tiananmen 20th Anniversary, Human Rights Watch, Foreign Affairs, Tiananmen Anniversary, China Human Rights Violations, Tiananmen Square Anniversary, China Human Rights, Tiananmen Square, China, Advocacy, Video, World News
Human Rights Watch

By Minky Worden Twenty years after the Chinese army killed untold numbers of unarmed civilians in Beijing and other cities on and around June 3-4, 19...

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Understanding China's Approach to North Korea

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Affairs, North Korea Nuclear Program, China, Beijing, China Human Rights, South Korea, North Korea, World News
Eric C. Anderson

So long as American forces remain in South Korea, and no one threatens to unleash a refugee flood by invading or imploding North Korea, China can return to its ancient practice of "benign neglect."

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