It’s well known by now that former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong after leaking information about the NSA’s surveillance activities. With Americans increasingly aware of the role that Chinese …
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In March 2013, Xi Jinping visited three African countries – Tanzania, South Africa, and Republic of the Congo – during his first trip abroad as the President of China. In 2012 alone, more than 2,000 …
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Why does the format of the summit between President Obama and Chinese President Xi, held today and tomorrow in Rancho Mirage, California, matter in the world of power politics? Tea Leaf Nation founding editor David Wertime …
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“Education changes one’s destiny,” goes the long-believed Chinese motto. For students from rural areas, who usually have less access to both higher educational resources and fewer options to get rich compared to their peers in …
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The Chinese Web is well known to sit within a so-called “Great Firewall of Censorship,” even as government spokespeople have always managed to declare that the country’s Internet is “open” with a straight face. But did …
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China’s censors sure were busy on the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. With many coded references to the June 4 incident already censored, creative netizens have invented a new meme: rubber ducks. Today, TLN editor Rachel …
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[Ed: This is a part of a ChinaFile Conversation. Please read the entire conversation here.] The memory of the 1989 massacre of protesters at Tiananmen Square remains neither alive nor dead, neither reckoned nor obliterated. …
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Today marks the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Why is social media’s role so important in preserving memory of the incident? Editor David Wertime joins Tea Leaf Nation contributor and freelance writer Helen Gao to …
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As the United States Embassy in China warns, “If a product sells, it is likely to be illegally duplicated.” Apple products, despite a wave of government-backed criticism in April, continue to sell well in China, …
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Women giving birth out of wedlock in China have to contend with family pressure, social stigma and financial hardship. Now, some of them may have to pay a hefty fine as well. Wuhan, a city …
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In a world where many children cannot receive a proper education, China appears to be succeeding at ensuring its youth can attain basic literacy. Yet these “flowers of the motherland,” as they are sometimes called, …
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Over the past few days, the Chinese public has seen another instance of the government overstepping the boundaries of its power – this time in an imaginative way. On May 24, a Sina Weibo user …
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