For years and years, the bread and butter of China journalism was dissidents. This is in the days before there was an economy. Dissidents would take a public position contrary to that of the... Read more
There are all sorts of views of Hu Jintao, but the most common view externally is probably that he is a conservative, more interested in defending the power of the Communist Party than in ov... Read more
China is slowing warming to the idea that government cannot be completely responsible for all of a country’s economic decisions. Witness some of their comments about how the market mus... Read more
Jim Yardley, a correspondent for the New York Times, has written this wonderful piece (in the International Herald Tribune) about the Dongxiang people who live in the mountains of Gansu prov... Read more
No attribution or corroboration for this, but I have it on good authority that the long-awaited deal between Beijing and the Vatican which would see the Vatican cut its ties with Taiwan and... Read more
