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Is there any other company that better captures the dual way China is perceived internationally than Huawei? As one of China’s few market-based telecommunications equipment providers, the company is in many ways a symbol of China’s high-tech, global future. And yet this is the same company frequently tarred as a security threat by foreign journalists who play up the military
With less than two weeks to go before the Eighteenth Party Congress, speculation on China’s upcoming leadership transition could not be more intense here in Beijing, where insiders are trading lists of potential Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) members which disagree not only on who will be elevated to the highest ranks of China’s leadership, but even how many members will
For the last few days, international attention has focused on the small fishing town of Wukan in southern China, where villagers are in open revolt.
As the American economy teeters on the brink of a double-dip recession, “China Bear” sightings have increased significantly.
Mere months after China’s handling of the Eighteenth Party Congress suggested the country would undergo a peaceful leadership transition, the issue of freedom of the press surged to attention this week after a censored editorial in Southern Weekly ( Nanfang Zhoumo) resulted in a vociferous protest from the newspaper’s editorial staff, and an unexpected ripple of agreement across the country. As this situation continues to play out, we look this week at what brought on these protests, what is at stake, and what the response suggests about the way China’s new government will handle media...