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On Criticizing China

On Criticizing China

A unified field theory on assessing goods and bads

What Is China's Plan for The Middle East? Jason Lee/Reuters

What Is China's Plan for The Middle East?

Xi Jinping's recent visit with Israeli and Palestinian leaders says as much about the United States as it does about China.

On Ai Weiwei as Barber

Bad haircuts in a good cause.

Mo Yan: 'I Just Want to Write—Leave Me Alone' Jonas Ekstromer/Reuters

Mo Yan: 'I Just Want to Write—Leave Me Alone'

The Nobel laureate's refusal to discuss politics raises a question: Do cultural figures in China have a responsibility to be dissidents?

Yes, The United States Is Guilty of Hacking Too Carlos Barria/Reuters

Yes, The United States Is Guilty of Hacking Too

But China's accusations that the U.S. is the real "hacking empire" ultimately misses the point.

Why China Executes So Many People Reuters

Why China Executes So Many People

Despite growing opposition, capital punishment remains entrenched in the country's justice system.

Shidu: When Chinese Parents Forced to Have One Child Lose That Child Reuters

Shidu: When Chinese Parents Forced to Have One Child Lose That Child

It happens to millions of families. Why doesn't Beijing do more for them?

Here Is a Way I Did Not Expect to Spend the Evening

Two big personalities share one space.

New Thing: Chinese Web Users Love Petitioning the White House Harshlight/Flickr
The Resurrection of Zhu Ling, Poison Victim Sina Weibo

The Resurrection of Zhu Ling, Poison Victim

How an unsolved crime from 1994 has suddenly become a hot topic in China. The latest in an ongoing series of discussions with ChinaFile.

China Says It Will Open Up Capital Flows—but Will It Work? Paul J. Richards/Reuters

China Says It Will Open Up Capital Flows—but Will It Work?

Why Beijing's big economic announcement will not amount to much

China's and India's Dangerous Game Yuriko Nakao/Reuters

China's and India's Dangerous Game

A recent border incursion highlights the risks of further conflict between the two.

The Silence Around Tibet's Ecological Crisis Reuters

The Silence Around Tibet's Ecological Crisis

How mistrust and fear between Beijing and Tibetans are making a bad environmental problem worse.

Two Sobering China Reads—and Some Cheer

A society that has huge problems -- and that many outsiders are nonetheless drawn to

Nixon Grandson Recreates President's China Trip, but What Is His Wife Wearing? Sina Weibo

Nixon Grandson Recreates President's China Trip, but What Is His Wife Wearing?

The revealing outfit of Andrea Catsimatidis, wife of Richard Nixon's grandson Christopher Nixon Cox, dominates a recent visit to China.

That Stink Is the Smell of Money: China's New Rubber-Farming Dilemma Andy Gao/Reuters

That Stink Is the Smell of Money: China's New Rubber-Farming Dilemma

The demand for latex-based products has enriched a once-impoverished corner of the country. But at what cost to the environment?

Rat: It's What's for Dinner? Wikimedia Commons

Rat: It's What's for Dinner?

China's latest food scare involves the unpopular rodents masquerading, with the help of other ingredients, as lamb.

'Beijing Welcomes You'

You can go home again.

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