Topic: China

Spying for China Is One Way to Pay for NYU Grad School

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Three scientists working at New York University's Langone Medical Center are accused of leaking research funded by the National Institutes of Health to a rival research institute funded by the Chinese government. For one scientist, his compensation was pre-paid grad school tuition.

By Adam Martin

Apr 18, 2012

It's Almost Like We Know What Happened in the Bo Xilai Scandal

If you've been following the Bo Xilai scandal, you've probably noticed some remarkably vague language surrounding key parts of the narrative, but this week much of it is becoming more specific, including what happened at the U.S. consulate where Bo Xilai's chief of police fled in February.

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By Adam Martin

Apr 17, 2012

Party Boy Son Added to Bo Xilai's Disgrace in China

The whole Bo Xilai scandal has been something of an object lesson on how not to act when you're part of China's power structure, and as the focus moves to Bo's son, Bo Guagua, that becomes even clearer for the college set.

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By Richard Lawson

Apr 16, 2012

The Call Sheet

'Girls' Doesn't Quite Run the World

Today: a wildly talked-out about show wasn't watched that much, James Cameron is huge in China, and the Tribeca Film Festival picks some strange judges.

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By John Hudson

Apr 16, 2012

Propaganda Parade

Kim Jong Un Smiles for Grandpa

In today's tour of propaganda, Kim Jong Un gives a winning smile, Chinese media does damage control, and Anders Breivik sobs after watching his own propaganda film.

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By Dino Grandoni

Apr 16, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

The Next Cold War May Be Really Cold; There's Uranium in Them Hills

The Associated Press on soldiers in the melting Arctic, The Texas Tribune on uranium mining, Christian Science Monitor on solar panels in Germany, The Washington Post on saving the seahorse, and The Guardian on the drought in England

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By Jen Doll

Apr 16, 2012

Fifty Shades of Fifty Shades of Grey; the Most Awful Sentence Is Not That Bad

Today in books: There are more than fifty shades of grey in the Fifty Shades of Grey headlines; we're still awaiting the news of the inevitable Fox Mole book deal; and the most awful short sentence is not that terrible. Really.

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By Adam Martin

Apr 16, 2012

Carefully Managed Leaks Hint at a Financial Motive for Murder in China

Reuters' scoop revealing a possible motive in the alleged killing of Brit Neil Heywood in China also offers a glimpse of how difficult reporting can be in a nation where information is so tightly controlled by the government.

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By Adam Martin

Apr 13, 2012

Chinese Press Comes Dangerously Close to Journalism in Bo Scandal

As the official Chinese press rushes to condemn disgraced Communist Party official Bo Xilai, the official party newspaper sounds like it's coming perilously close to doing actual investigative work into political corruption -- a potentially dangerous pursuit.

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By John Hudson

Apr 12, 2012

Propaganda Parade

In China, IPO stands for Initial Propaganda Offering

In today's tour of state-run propaganda, Iran's propaganda outlet suddenly cares about propaganda, Egyptian state media enters the presidential race and China's People's Daily files for an IPO.

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By Adam Martin

Apr 10, 2012

China's Nagging Political Scandal Is Now a Murder Case

Tuesday was a bad day for Chinese politician Bo Xilai and his family: First Bo was suspended from the 25-member Politburo that runs China, then his wife was reportedly arrested for the murder of a British businessman.

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By Adam Martin

Apr 9, 2012

The NGO Trying to Make Biking Cool in Beijing

In Beijing, where air pollution threatens to take years off your life, some people have no interest in riding a bike if they can possibly afford a car, which is a shame because rediscovering the tradition of cycling could help reduce the smog that chokes the city.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 9, 2012

The Rare Earth Metals the U.S. Wants That China's Got

Whether you realize it or not, your smartphone-toting, hybrid car-driving, neon light-gazing would be impossible without the cooperation from China, our fickle friends on the other side of the planet.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 9, 2012

Maybe Foxconn Isn't So Horrible After All

Since Mike Daisey's lies tarnished any perception we have of life on Apple's infamous Chinese factory line, Marketplace's Rob Schmitz has gone in to re-report and re-shape the image of the place where our iStuff gets made.

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By John Hudson

Apr 9, 2012

What Western Reporters Saw During Their Visit to a North Korean Launch Pad

North Korean officials tried to ease tensions over its upcoming rocket launch by opening its launch pad on Sunday to the international press. It didn't work.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Apr 5, 2012

House Arrest Hasn't Kept Ai Weiwei from Doing What He Does Best

The Chinese government shutdown Ai Weiwei's self-surveillance project commemorating the year anniversary of his own arrest, so we thought we'd look back at what the Chinese artist has been up to since the government put him under house arrest. 


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By Adam Martin

Apr 4, 2012

Romney Probably Won't Have a Say on the Electric Car, but China Will

Mitt Romney's become fond of criticizing the Chevy Volt, saying he doesn't want the government to tell automakers what kinds of cars to make, but it won't be the government that forces him into an electric vehicle; it'll be market forces from Asia.

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By Dino Grandoni

Apr 3, 2012

David Lynch Throws Worst Party Ever; Google Takes Us for a Ride

Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.

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By John Hudson

Apr 3, 2012

Propaganda Parade

Everybody Missed Fidel Castro's April Fool's Joke

In today's tour of state-run propaganda, Fidel Castro makes an April Fool's joke, China's media champions censorship, and a Syrian radio host defects from the country.

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By Dino Grandoni

Apr 3, 2012

Five Best Green Stories

Van Jones on Eco Jobs; Big Troubles in China

ClimateWire on Chinese food woes in China, Le Monde on Shanghai's sinking, CNN on a green tsunami cleanup, Van Jones on eco-jobs, and Climate Central's flooding maps

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 29, 2012

Regina Spektor Runs; It's Urine-Soaked Egg Season in China

Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 29, 2012

No More 12-Plus Hour Days for Foxconn Workers

As a result of the independent Fair Labor Association audit of Foxconn factories, workers will no longer work those notorious 12 hour shifts, according to the just released report

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 29, 2012

Tim Cook Brings Smiles to Foxconn Factory

While Mark Zuckerberg's using his China trip for touristy things with girlfriend Priscilla Chan, Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken his China trip to do some Foxconn related PR-cleanup. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 28, 2012

China Thinks It's Apple's Responsibility to Fix Foxconn

Not wanting to take full responsibility for the worker abuses happening in his own country, Chinese senior politician Li Keqiang suggested to Apple CEO Tim Cook he thinks the iMaker should be the one to do the fixing.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 28, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg's Chinese Vacation Doesn't Seem Like Much of a Vacation

Though Facebook's calling Mark Zuckerberg's Shanghai trip a "vacation," whatever the Facebook CEO is doing over there with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan doesn't look like too much fun.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Mar 28, 2012

In Death, Jamphel Yeshi Has Become the Face of Tibetan Dissent

Jamphel Yeshi, a Tibetan exile who set himself on fire to protest Chinese rule, died from his burns in New Delhi on Wednesday--and has now become the symbol and a martyr for Tibetan suffering.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 26, 2012

What's Tim Cook Doing in China?

Tim Cook is the first Apple CEO to visit China, but beyond symbolism it's not quite clear what he's up to over there. From the little information secretive the Apple people have doled out plus some Internet sleuthing, we get an idea of what Cook's doing over there.

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By Adam Martin

Mar 23, 2012

China Will Stop Harvesting Prisoners' Dirty Organs

China's doing the right thing by phasing out organ donations from prisoners on death row, but the official reason for the move just makes the government seem more heartless and brutal, not less.

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By Eric Randall

Mar 21, 2012

Uh, No One Knows Whether There Was a Coup in China?

Here's the most disconcerting thing we've read this afternoon: an explainer from Mark MacKinnon, The Globe and Mail's China correspondent, on why reporters can't really nail down hard information about rumors of a coup in China. Wait, a coup in China?

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By Dashiell Bennett

Mar 16, 2012

Is Mitt Romney Making Money Selling Surveillance Cameras to China?

front page story in The New York Times today attempts to tie Mitt Romney to Chinese state repression, but it really says more about the complexities of international business than his investment strategies.

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By John Hudson

Mar 14, 2012

Propaganda Parade

Cuba Acquires 'Cutting Edge' Doppler Radar; Russia's Gay Propaganda Problem

From Cuba's dazzling technological achievements to Russia's "gay propaganda" problem to China's obsession with female flight attendants, today's Propaganda Parade begins in the Caribbean. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 14, 2012

The Slang Chinese Bloggers Use to Subvert Censorship

They call it the Grass Mud-Horse lexicon, and, lucky for us language lovers, the China Digital Times just started a recurring word of the week feature to go along with its catalog of the slang China's bloggers use to subvert government censorship.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 5, 2012

China's Explosive Growth Isn't So Explosive Any More

Despite the fact that China's been cast in the role of an economic boogieman—last month, Mitt Romney called the country a cheat and a job-thief at an appearance in Ohio—the country's economy is actually slowing down.

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By John Hudson

Mar 5, 2012

China Is Stealing Our Movie Poster Ideas

Hollywood is obsessed with Chinese citizens pirating U.S. films, but do they know how often their films' posters are being ripped off?

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 1, 2012

Finally, China and Russia Are Condemning Syria

The entire United Nations Security Council is doing something about the increasingly horrific situation in Syria.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 27, 2012

This American Warehouse Sounds as Bad as Foxconn

After hearing all about the horrible working conditions it takes to make our electronics at FoxconnMother Jones' Mac McClelland shows us what it takes to ship those products. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 23, 2012

Foxconn Is Good At Making Itself Look Good Enough

Somehow Foxconn has convinced the world that its treatment of workers isn't that bad. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 22, 2012

The Lighter Side of Foxconn

We know all about the doom and gloom over at Foxconn, but during Nightline's trip to the iFactory on ABC last night, we learn about some of the perks of working at the industrial campus.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Feb 20, 2012

Americans Think Iran Is the U.S.'s Top Enemy, China Second

Iran's been dominating the news and it shows -- a Gallup poll found that 32 percent of Americans believe that Iran is the greatest threat to the U.S., followed by China, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 20, 2012

How Things Have (and Haven't) Changed at Foxconn

After a mass suicide threat, media exposes from both This American Life and The New York Times and factory audits from Apple and the Fair Labor Association, Foxconn has had about six weeks to shape up.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 17, 2012

Foxconn Is Putting on a Good Show

With the press all focused on Foxconn's unfortunate labor conditions, the despotic electronics maker has taken this moment to prove its factories aren't all that bad.

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By John Hudson

Feb 16, 2012

Today's Best

Five Best Thursday Columns

Mitt Romney slams China, Fareed Zakaria talks "zones of immunity," and The New York Times edit board gives a bipartisan round of applause.

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By John Hudson

Feb 15, 2012

China's Future Leader Is Getting an Unwelcome Reception in the U.S.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is having a somewhat contentious visit to the U.S. this week and it doesn't sound like it's going to get much better. 

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By Eric Randall

Feb 14, 2012

China Turned Away the U.S.'s Religious Freedom Ambassador

Just a few days before a high profile visit from Vice President Xi Jinping, China's government refused to allow the U.S. State Department's ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom into the country, reports The Washington Post.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Feb 14, 2012

Obama to China's VP: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

President Obama met with Chinese vice president Xi Jinping Tuesday and sounded like Spider-Man's Uncle Ben, saying, "We have tried to emphasize that because of China’s extraordinary development over the last two decades, with expanding power and prosperity also comes increased responsibilities."

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By Ray Gustini

Feb 14, 2012

How College Coaches Get Paid; Will Carmelo Anthony Spoil Linsanity?

Today in sports: Penn State's new football coach Bill O'Brien's contract is online in its entirety, why the return of gloomy Gus Carmelo Anthony might not  spell the end of Linsanity, and hockey players have discovered yet another wildly dangerous tactic.

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By Adam Martin

Feb 14, 2012

At the White House, China's Vice President Works Through the Ranks

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived at the White House a little more than an hour ago and had a chat with Vice President Joe Biden before meeting with the president.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 14, 2012

There Are No Quick Fixes for Apple's Foxconn Problem

Even with a formal statement from CEO Tim Cook, its own internal inspections and now an independent audit by the Fair Labor Association, Apple can't appease critics of the working conditions at Foxconn where it manufactures its iProducts.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Feb 13, 2012

Syria Rejects U.N. Peacekeeping Proposal and Resume Shelling on Homs

Syrian authorities rejected an Arab League proposal for a U.N. peacekeepers to enter the country, while its forces have begun shelling Homs for a the tenth day.

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By John Hudson

Feb 8, 2012

Notre Dame Graduate Convicted of Trying to Sell Motorola Secrets to China

Just when you thought you had your stereotypical Chinese spy pegged, a 41-year-old Notre Dame graduate is convicted of selling trade secrets to a Chinese tech firm.

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