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Morning Must Reads: Weird and Creepy
The presidential race tightens in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Romney’s yeoman work awaits in Ohio. Obama is outperforming popularity trends, possibly because...
For Chinese Nobel Laureate's Wife, Peace Prize Means Silence
On Friday the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the 2011 Peace Prize laureate. Bookmakers Paddy Power, which correctly predicted Chinese dissident Liu...
Morning Must Reads: Cold Fish
Very bad news for Dick Lugar as his allies pull TV buys. Gingrich is ready to endorse Romney. That doesn’t mean his bitter primary performance can’t be used...
Behind China's Big Chill
The five-year filmmaking ban imposed by Chinese authorities on director Lou Ye is just the latest signal from Beijing that its tolerance for even minor signs of...
“If these reports are true, this is a dark day for freedom. And it’s a day of shame for the Obama Administration.”
–Mitt Romney commenting on the apparent breakdown of a diplomatic deal with China to secure safety for blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
A Chinese Activist Lost in the System
As China prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year this weekend, there is much hyperbole about the country's gleaming new skyscrapers, swelling middle class,...
Glitch Allows Chinese Citizens to Flood Obama’s Google+ Page with Comments
What to do when the strict system of Internet censorship around you briefly breaks down? Take your grievances directly to the most powerful man in the world. A...
State Stamps Out Small 'Jasmine' Protests in China
The anonymous call for a "jasmine revolution" in China's major cities was made online, first on a website run by overseas dissidents, then on Twitter, which...
Letter from Beijing: A Legal Activist Goes on Trial
Some days, China is the kind of place that can make an optimist out of almost anyone; other days, it does just the opposite. The day I first learned of...
“The West and its supporters in China always need a tool to work against China’s current political system. Those who become these tools have few choices of their own.”
Global Times, a state-run Chinese newspaper, lambasting the ‘the West’ for its involvement in the case of Chen Guangcheng.
No Olympic Spring for Dissidents
A balmy Sunday recently found Yuan Weijing and her two-year-old daughter in the apartment he has hardly left since arriving in Beijing on July 6. Yuan, 30, a...
The Search for Justice in China
The text message on my cell phone came just as I was standing in my Shanghai apartment, surrounded by packing boxes and bubble wrap. Preparing to leave for...
Milestones
CONVICTED. Sanjay Dutt, 47, Indian actor and star of more than 100 Bollywood films; of illegal-weapons possession, stemming from an investigation into the 1993...
China: China: First Person: Blind Justice
The text message on my cell phone came last Thursday as I was standing in my Shanghai apartment, surrounded by packing boxes and bubble wrap. Preparing to leave...
Campaign Insider Book Argues Mitt Romney Lost Because Of Benghazi
New book presents the least convincing case for Romney loss: Benghazi
World
After Statehood Bid, 'Doomsday' 1 | OCCUPIED TERRITORIES It's possible to view Palestine's Nov. 29 admission to the U.N. General Assembly as a watershed victory...
China: Forced Abortion Victim Awarded $11,200, Fears for Life
Just how much is a dead baby worth? This week, a settlement from China’s Shaanxi province put that figure at $11,200. In early June, Feng Jianmei was bundled...
Picking Quarrels, Disturbing Traffic and Vacation: The Creative Excesses of the Chinese Legal System
Last month, when officials in the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing announced that Wang Lijun, the former police chief and close aide to political heavyweight...
