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The Wang Liqiang spy/defector story: real or fake?

November 27, 2019 Donald Clarke

Wang Liqiang is a Chinese national now in Australia who recently went to the Australian press (here, The Age) to…

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Posted in: International relations, Miscellaneous, Politics

The “rule of law” and the concept of an “essentially contested concept”

August 21, 2019 Donald Clarke 3 Comments

Recently in the course of some writing I’ve had to address the problem of “essentially contested concepts.” But because the…

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Posted in: Law, Miscellaneous, Non-China commentary Filed under: essentially contested concepts

Dagong bond rating agency taken over after licenses suspended

April 19, 2019 Donald Clarke

The Financial Times reports that the Dagong bond rating agency has been taken over by a state-owned investment company after…

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Introducing two new co-bloggers

February 19, 2019 Donald Clarke

It’s my pleasure to welcome two new co-bloggers here: Ling Li and Nils Pelzer. Ling is a Lecturer in the…

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Controversy about Chinese students at Bard College: not what it appears to be on the surface

October 19, 2018 Donald Clarke 6 Comments

I’ve never been to Bard College, but it has always been a little special to me, since that’s where Donald…

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Posted in: Miscellaneous Filed under: Bard College

The Xinjiang Initiative

September 2, 2018 Donald Clarke

The Xinjiang Initiative is a project to raise awareness about the terrible things happening in Xinjiang right now. I urge…

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Whataboutism: valid and invalid forms

February 5, 2018 Donald Clarke

A recent discussion on a Chinese politics discussion group of which I’m a member raised the issue of whataboutism. What…

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Does English-language (or more broadly, “Western”) media focus too much on human rights issues in China?

January 7, 2018 Donald Clarke 2 Comments

[CORRECTION JAN. 8 2018: I have learned that the writer is a she. Please deem all relevant pronouns as changed…

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“Low-end” people in China

November 27, 2017 Donald Clarke

Yesterday I blogged about the response of He Weifang and others to the sudden expulsion from Beijing of large numbers…

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A new book by Dr Jue Jiang

November 5, 2017 Hualing Fu

Criminal Reconciliation in Contemporary China: An Empirical and Analytical Enquiry, by Jue Jiang. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, US: Edward Elgar…

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