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Tens of thousands of “law enforcement” personnel dispatched by Beijing have descended upon China’s vast countryside to enforce ...

In my series of interviews with Chinese intellectuals, there is an empty chair for Ilham Tohti, the economist and Uighur activist. It’s not that I hadn’t heard of him or hadn’t been in China long enough to have met him before he was arrested earlier this year. I had, but foolishly had put off pursuing a meeting, thinking that of all the people who might be snapped up by the

On Monday, the U.S., Japan, and ten other countries concluded negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP—the largest regional trade accord in history. If approved, the agreement will set new terms for the nearly $28 trillion in trade and business investment between the parties to the deal, a group in which China is not included. —The Editors

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation - The Narendra Modi government has now been in power for more than eight years. If the first term of the Modi government was an early warning about the shape of things to come, the second term has been a period of rapid escalation of a concerted multi-pronged offensive.

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation - The Narendra Modi government has now been in power for more than eight years. If the first term of the Modi government was an early warning about the shape of things to come, the second term has been a period of rapid escalation of a concerted multi-pronged offensive.

A generation of Chinese reformers came close to creating the promised land of economic development. Xi Jinping”s fixation with security is now laying waste to it.

(Archived document, may contain errors) DEMOCRACY IN CHINA PART 2 TAIPEI STYLE Edited by Martin L. Lasater Dr. Ma Ying-jeou Associate Professor of Law National Chengchi University, Taipei Dr. King C. Chen Professor of Political Science Rutgers University Dr. Robert Sutter Specialist in Asian Affairs Congressional Research Service Library of Congress Dr. David Aikman Time Magazine Martin L Lasater Director, Asian Studies Center The Heritage Foundation

(Archived document, may contain errors) DEMOCRACY IN CHINA PART I BEIJING STYLE Edited by Martin L Lasater Dr. Wang Bingzhang Chairman, Chinese Afliance for Democracy New York Dr. Huan Guocang Princeton University Fugene Martin Depu Director, Office of Chinese Affairs T.S. Department of State Martin Lasater Director, Asian Studies Center The Heritage Foundation

The January 13, 1967 issue of TIME magazine featured Mao Zedong on its cover with the headline “China in Chaos.” Fifty years later, TIME made U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its Man of The Year. With a groundswell of mass support, both men rebelled against the established order in their respective countries and set about throwing the world into confusion. Both share an

What did the year in foreign policy look like in Chinese official circles? Divining the thoughts and motives of China’s leadership is a famously abstruse exercise even for Chinese citizens, who are often left to parse bland quotes or keep their ears peeled for rumor. But one reliable, albeit indirect, indication of the Zeitgeist of Chinese officialdom comes by way of a 2013