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Published in: HomePresident Xi Jinping, this is how you can win the Nobel peace prizeFrom his new position of power, Xi Jinping can show that China is a generous emerging power, rather than a vengeful...
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Published in: HomeBehind China’s witch-hunt for ‘market manipulators’China may pay lip service to free markets. But in the mind-set of its officials, free markets can only be free as...
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Published in: HomeIs this China’s Chernobyl moment?The Tianjin explosion, which temporarily darkened the skies in one part of China, could end up darkening the...
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Published in: HomeContested symbiosis: state-NGO relations in ChinaTo ‘beat the government at its own game’, Chinese NGOs need to act as rebels and conformists at the same time.
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Published in: digitaLibertiesChina's 'great firewall' just got tallerThe recently released draft of the new ‘cyber security law’ formalises already existing censorship practices and...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy's dying days?Political meritocracy distinguishes China's political system from other non-democratic political systems and is...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesPrivacy under threat in Hong Kong23,946 warrantless metadata requests raise privacy concerns for Hong Kong’s online activists. The loss of online...
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Published in: 50.50Jeju island and the war mindset in Asia and the PacificJeju is called the Island of Peace, but in spite of seven years of constant large protests it's where the South...
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Published in: HomeChasing dreams in GuangzhouMåns Månsson’s film Stranded in Canton straddles false promises and Sino-African culture clash. At the Open City...
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Published in: HomeFrom the city to the villages!Xu Hongjie’s achingly beautiful film On the Rim of the Sky traces the texture of China’s everyday life, at the...
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Published in: HomeIs Chinese autocracy outperforming western democracy?The author suggests that China’s regime could put itself to a referendum – a democratic referendum against electoral...
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Published in: HomeThe renewable revolutionFour reasons why the transition from fossil fuels to a green energy era is gaining traction.
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Published in: civilResistanceMatching resistance to repression in ChinaFor domestic rights defenders in China’s high-capacity authoritarian regime, strategic actions rather than tactics...
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Published in: HomeBanking on human rightsThe Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank can contribute to the urgent socio-economic needs of people throughout the...
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Published in: HomeTrouble in paradiseMonths before Hong Kong’s Occupy unleashed popular frustration onto the streets, a refugee movement adopted...
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Published in: HomeChina, the idea-hungry nationChina's restless intellectual energy carries an echo of Austria-Hungary in the pre-1914 years.
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Published in: HomeThe right to Hong KongThe protest camps have been cleared. But Hong Kong’s Occupy movement has laid bare the struggle for space that rages...
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Published in: HomeAsia at the crossroadsAside from China, nearly all the states in Asia make use of the trappings of democracy, such as elections,...
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Published in: HomeChina, questions of loyalty
What determines political survival among China's party elite? Where are the traps that ensnare men like Zhou...
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Published in: HomeTamed by BeijingThe death knell for Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution was sounded even as the movement entered December. The final...
