Friday, August 01, 2014

Business and Economics (商业和经济)

U.S. firms wary about China's free-market claims
The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2014
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-firms-arent-buying-chinas-free-market-claims-1406849667

Censorship and Surveillance (审查和监控)

Censorship in China: not letting a hundred flowers bloom
The Economist, July 31, 2014
http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2014/07/censorship-china

Children (儿童)

Name that child: Chinese officials offer bonus for mother's moniker
Agence France-Presse, August 1, 2014
http://tribune.com.pk/story/742938/name-that-child-chinese-officials-offer-bonus-for-mothers-moniker/

Consumer Product Safety (消费品安全)

Weak links in China’s food chain
欧喜集团掉进中国食品安全泥沼
The New York Times, July 31, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/business/20140801/c01chinafood/dual/

Corruption (腐败)

More stressed officials taking their own lives as corruption crackdown presses on
South China Morning Post, August 1, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1563906/more-stressed-officials-taking-their-own-lives-corruption-crackdown

China's Xi pledges hard strike against military corruption
Reuters, August 1, 2014
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-china-defence-idUSKBN0G133G20140801

CCTV executive behind “A Bite of China” food documentary detained
Caixin, August 1, 2014
http://english.caixin.com/2014-08-01/100711928.html

Health (健康)

美国会“外交事务委员会”敦促中国停止囚犯器官移植 (U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs calls on China to end organ harvesting from prisoners)
Radio Free Asia, July 31, 2014
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/jz-07312014102044.html

Related:
Engel Opening remarks at full Committee markup
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, July 30, 2014
http://democrats.foreignaffairs.house.gov/press_display.asp?id=1326

China’s Guangzhou, popular African destination, worried about Ebola
The Wall Street Journal, August, 1, 2014
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/08/01/chinas-guangzhou-popular-african-destination-worried-about-ebola/

Hong Kong (香港)

ICAC drops bribery investigation into CY Leung sparked by Lew Mon-hung interview
South China Morning Post, July 31, 2014
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1563360/icac-drops-bribery-investigation-cy-leung-sparked-lew-mon-hung

Internet (互联网)

Breaking through China’s great firewall
The Diplomat, July 30, 2014
http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/breaking-through-chinas-great-firewall/

National Defense (国防)

On the Chinese military’s new map, what borders?
中国新版军用地图如何划定疆界?
The New York Times, July 31, 2014
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20140801/c01map/dual/

XUAR (新疆维吾尔自治区)

In Xinjiang, veils signal conservative shift among Uighurs
新疆女性面纱显示出维族日趋保守
The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2014
EN: http://online.wsj.com/articles/in-xinjiang-veils-signal-conservative-shift-among-uighurs-1406830554
CH: http://cn.wsj.com/gb/20140801/bch091420.asp

The long campaign to silence Uighur voice of dissent
The Globe and Mail, July 31, 2014
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/china-singles-out-a-voice-of-uyghur-resistance-to-be-silenced/article19871509/

Opinion (观点)

勿让两种极端化民族主义撕裂新疆 (Party school scholar: China should adjust its policy implementation to respect economic, social and cultural situation in Xinjiang)
Financial Times, August 1, 2014
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001057530