Beijing is keen to increase its involvement in the country following the planned U.S. withdrawal in 2014. But security problems may interfere.
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As its recent experience in Kunming shows, Beijing can handle environmental protests. But is this approach sustainable in the long term?
LA Theatre Works
Documenting an infamous episode in U.S. history, the play is showing for the second time in three years.
Broad Group
A Chinese firm is planning to build a skyscraper in the middle of an empty field as part of a new "vertical city".
Busan International Film Festival
Urbanization has lowered a once-high suicide rate. But life is still hard.
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As it turns out, quite a lot. The latest in an ongoing series of discussions with ChinaFile.
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Economic growth has raised living standards throughout the country -- but stress levels have risen too.
A fast-growing country is doing a lot wrong -- and right.
The perils of the journalism biz, chapter 12,712.
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A statement by Osaka's mayor defending so-called "comfort women" reignites Chinese grievances.
Jason Lee/Reuters
Most of the thousands who died in Sichuan's 2008 earthquake were just kids. A new documentary profiles how families permitted to have another child are trying to recover.
AP
Now an observer member of the Arctic Council, Beijing seeks a new opportunity to cut shipping costs ... and get at the ocean's fish stocks.
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A Chinese internet meme used to evade censorship finds its way onto the popular American quiz show.
Reuters
How a Buddhist mindset, the "Middle Way," and a Harvard education keep Lobsang Sangay, the country's Sikyong, afloat. Oh, and no attachments, please.
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Or can it? The latest in an ongoing series of discussions with ChinaFile.
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In an effort to curb pollution, Beijing has floated a proposal to curb the outdoor grilling, a staple of the city's culinary scene.
Reuters
Five years later, China has preserved the semi-destroyed city of Beichuan as a memorial to the victims. But the controversy over collapsed school buildings hasn't gone away.
Jason Lee/Reuters
As Beijing prepares for a major political meeting, its leaders are thought to be planning the country's most significant economic changes since 1978.
A chance to hear about history, first-hand.
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In this interview, the Chinese dissident discusses human rights, Internet censorship, and what the international community can do to help individual freedom in China.
Reuters
But will language barriers get in the way?
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.
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