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Category Archives: Challenging state power in China
When the Vice President was abroad – power play at home
China’s Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to the US While the ongoing affair in China surrounding would-be-politburo-standing-committee member Bo Xilai, is still unfolding, fellow princeling and Vice President, Xi Jinping, has warmed up for his future position as China’s paramount … Continue reading
China’s Transparency International: white papers and incommunicado detentions
China’s new Transparency International? Since the beginning of the 1990s, China’s government started to publish white papers at an increasing rate. (for a list of what has hitherto been published see: http://www.gov.cn/english/links/whitepapers.htm). It all started with the first “defensive” white paper on … Continue reading
The arty and the Party: Ai Weiwei and China’s leaders
No more silk glove treatment of Ai Weiwei Much have been written in western mass media recently about the clampdown on dissent, or rather, would-be-dissent in China. Is this focus unwarranted and unfair? Chinese state-owned media believes that is the … Continue reading
Westward Ho: Asians March Into Africa – YaleGlobal Online magazine
See my latest short piece on China and other Asian countries in Africa From YaleGlobal Online Magazine: “New trade routes are taking hold, linking Africa’s rich resources with the industrial needs in Asia and South America, and this two-part YaleGlobal … Continue reading
The stability cocktail and power disparity in the National People’s Congress
The National People’s Congress or the National Politruks’ Conference? For Chinese citizens, this year’s annual ‘two sessions’ of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC) and the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) are eyed – or neglected if … Continue reading
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Hillary Clinton and the outsourcing of internet freedom fighting
The new ambivalence: should we do it? Let’s just face it: George W. Bush gave democracy promotion a bad name and China’s meteoric rise to wealth and global clout has made human rights promotion a very tricky game to play. The Obama administration … Continue reading
Will the rest of Africa catch the “Juba bug?”
Apart from the contested Abyei area (yet to hold its local referendum on unity or secession) between North and South Sudan, the referendum in South Sudan that was agreed upon in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) has been held … Continue reading
Qian Yunhui case revisited
The Qian Yunhui case of Zhaiqiao Village, near Yueqing city, in Zhejiang Province, seemed wrapped up and closed. But recurring eye witness accounts detailing the unclear circumstances of Mr. Qian’s gruesome death have kept fuelling suspicion and unwillingness to accept … Continue reading
China’s new white paper on corruption
Obviously things are still bad, yet there are also improvements according to the report (http://www.china.org.cn/government/whitepaper/node_7108233.htm) The report argues that ordinary Chinese people, from 2003 through 2010, have become increasingly positive toward the governments efforts to combat corruption and embezzlements. Up … Continue reading
