China denies consular access to Spavor & Kovrig trials, breaching consular agreement

In a move that will surprise absolutely nobody, China will refuse to allow Canadian diplomats (or indeed, any foreigners, I…

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China v. Zenz: the lawsuit

The latest news [Reuters in English | Xinhua in Chinese] is that unidentified companies from Xinjiang have—no doubt at state…

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Book review: “The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China.” By Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu Hui. London: Zed Books, 2019.

Here’s a book review that I wrote almost a year ago, and it’s just now published (link here). Reading it…

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Xi Declares Victory Over Poverty: A Step in His Efforts to Equal (or Surpass) Mao?

Want a sense of where elite Chinese politics are going? Take a look at this unusual 3-page article splashed over…

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2020年〈中國司法人權觀察〉(Human Rights in the Chinese Administration of Justice 2020)

Featured image credit: Badiucao; twitter.com/badiucao/status/498103689899278336/photo/1 2020年的〈中國司法人權觀察〉已經完成,可在此下載。 這篇文章將刊登在臺灣民主基金會每年出版的《中國人權觀察報告》(往年報告連結在此),特別感謝陸梅吉(Margaret Lewis)教授擔任評論人,對文章提出寶貴建議。 沒有時間讀整份報告的話,以下是三千字的摘要。 這是我第三年,也是最後一年的〈中國司法人權觀察〉,感謝那些為中國人權努力的人。 Here is my piece on human rights in the Chinese…

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The Economist on Xinjiang: don’t call it genocide

The Economist just published a leader headlined “‘Genocide’ is the wrong word for the horrors of Xinjiang”. Here’s why I…

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Chinese Language Fellowship program

From the National Bureau of Asian Research. Here’s the announcement: https://nbr.applicantpro.com/jobs/955679.html. Deadline: Feb. 21, 2021

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More on the policy and methodological content of Xi Jinping’s “Marxism”

Yesterday I made the claim that it was meaningless to say that Xi Jinping (or anyone) was a Marxist unless…

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The Longer Blog Post: Comments on American China strategy

The Atlantic Council recently posted an 80-page article entitled The Longer Telegram: Toward a New American China Strategy (a shorter…

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Gang Chen’s case and the future of the China Initiative

The Trump administration capped off its two-year-old China Initiative with the indictment of MIT professor Gang Chen. As I argue…

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