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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 16, 2013
Activist Chinese billionaire detained
Last month, Chinese police invited Wang Gongquan in for a "cup of tea," often a prelude to detention. He had launched a public petition calling for the release of arrested dissident Xu Zhiyong, and the authorities were not amused. But Wang effectively told the police to forget it — he had no time...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2013
China's Net crackdown shows fear trumps reform
China's new government is threatening jail terms for Web comments deemed defamatory. But by Beijing's definition, 'defamation' could mean anything that any politically connected person doesn't want to see made public.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2013
Improving chilly Japan-China ties
Japanese and Chinese leaders must work to prevent the Senkaku issue from harming broader, mutually important interests.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 5, 2013
After Snowden revelations, China worries about cyberdefense
China has been seen as the aggressor in cyberattacks, but many worry its own defenses are woeful.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2013
China's population time bomb
China's one-child policy, implemented to prevent overpopulation and raise living standards, will likely negatively impact China's future economic growth.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2013
Could a maritime conflict start a Sino-American war?
There is now little doubt that China and the West are going to clash. The as yet unanswered questions are will the conflicts become 'physical,' and if so how and why
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2013
Why Bo Xilai stole the show instead of the CCP
Bo Xilai may be heading to jail, but he retains some chance of political rehabilitation should things change dramatically in China.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2013
After Bo Xilai case, China's trial is just beginning
The just-concluded trial of Bo Xilai will be remembered as one of the most critical political milestones in contemporary Chinese Communist history.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2013
Obama's great Asian dawdle
The U.S. has sent out a contradictory message: It takes a hands-off approach to the Senkaku territorial dispute yet it scowls at Japan's interest in acquiring offensive capability to deter aggression.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2013
CCP's plan for pro-democracy voices: repression
A semisecret directive from the senior members of the Chinese Communist Party tells us how President Xi Jinping plans to manage pro-democracy voices in China: by shutting them down.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 27, 2013
Slew of arrests in China show Xi is consolidating his power
The trial of Bo Xilai may have divided the Chinese Communist Party and hogged the media spotlight, but, outside the courtroom, President Xi Jinping is continuing his steady efforts to consolidate control, clean up the party and sideline opponents, with a series of detentions and arrests.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 24, 2013
China's contribution to Japan's defeat
An estimated 14 million to 20 million Chinese died during this epic struggle of resistance against Japanese aggression in a war that produced a staggering 80 million to 100 million refugees. Despite the prolonged onslaught of Japan's modern military machine for eight long years, a divided China, mostly...
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 23, 2013
China's voyage of discovery to cross the less frozen north
For a ship on a mission of worldwide importance, the Yong Sheng is a distinctly unimpressive sight. The gray and green hull of the 19,000-ton cargo vessel, operated by China's state-owned Cosco Group, is streaked with rust, while its cargo of steel and heavy equipment would best be described as prosaic....
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2013
Bo Xilai's bribery trial begins with China courts in spotlight
The trial of former Politburo member Bo Xilai over bribery and embezzlement begings, with China's judiciary as much in the spotlight as the man at the center of the country's most politically charged case in 30 years.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 20, 2013
China, Japan experts mull ways to avoid armed Senkaku confrontation
Chinese and Japanese experts on maritime and international relations huddled this week in Tokyo to discuss ways to keep the simmering tensions over the Senkaku Islands from escalating into a military clash.
BUSINESS / Companies / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Aug 18, 2013
Japan must open up to foreign investment — especially from China
Earlier this year, NHK aired the three-part TV program "Made in Japan," which dramatized an electronics company's struggle to survive tough economic times. While fictional, the story detailed the harsh reality Japan Inc. faces from Chinese competition.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 17, 2013
China hit by rash of fake officials peddling 'power'
He had the swagger and trappings of a senior party cadre, and a natural authority that made him hard to contradict. The walls of his office in the heart of the Chinese capital were adorned with photographs of him next to retired generals and government officials. He drove a top of the range Audi and...
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 16, 2013
War anniversary may irk China; why doesn't it honor fallen?
At 9:35 a.m. Thursday, Shanghai's state-owned Xinmin Evening News newspaper tweeted a reminder to its 1.8 million followers on the Sina Weibo microblogging service: "The Japanese surrendered 68 years ago today!"
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 16, 2013
The shadow from Yasukuni
Just as Japanese conservatives are taken to task for refusing to acknowledge their country's colonial horrors, so China would do well to expand discussion of its own history.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 16, 2013
'Happy go lucky' Australia now adrift in Asia
Australians used to call themselves 'the lucky country,' but today's mineral wealth seems to have created a nation prone to flip-flop foreign policies and crazy economic strategies.

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