The not-so-subtle diplomatic tactic of renaming streets to troll other countries

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BY ADAM TAYLOR June 25

China’s Washington Embassy (Google Maps)

China’s Washington embassy is getting a new address, according to The Washington Post’s Dr. Gridlock blog: No. 1 Liu Xiaobo Plaza. Continue reading →

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Tiananmen Exiles-Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China

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ROWENA XIAOQING HE 06.25.14

In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began Continue reading →

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China calls U.S. bid to name street for Nobel peace laureate a ‘farce’

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BEIJING Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:32am EDT


Workers prepare the Nobel Peace Prize laureate exhibition ”I Have No Enemies” for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo December 9, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

(Reuters) – China on Wednesday dismissed as a “farce” Continue reading →

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Hong Kong Chief Hits Back After Chinese Media Attacks Poll

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2014-06-24


Hong Kong Chief Executive C.Y. Leung (R) meets with Hong Kong businessmen in Beijing, April 11, 2012.
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Hong Kong’s chief executive C.Y. Leung on Tuesday hit back at Continue reading →

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Crosses in China’s Wenzhou City Fall Amid Widening Crackdown on Churches

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2014-06-24

Officials check vehicles leading to the town of Oubei, outside the city of Wenzhou on April 30, 2014, where Chinese authorities began demolishing a Christian church two days earlier.
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Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang Continue reading →

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US push to rename Chinese embassy street after dissident

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25 June 2014 Last updated at 12:02 ET Share this pagePrint


A picture of Liu Xiaobo seen inside the Nobel Peace Center on the day of The Nobel Peace Prize Continue reading →

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Kazakhstan: Aron Atabek denied medical treatment

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Posted June 23rd, 2014 by English PEN staff & filed under Campaigns.

PEN is deeply concerned at reports that the Kazakh prison authorities are denying medical treatment to imprisoned poet Aron Atabek

Poet Aron Atabek is reportedly suffering intense spine and leg pain due to injuries sustained during an assault by Continue reading →

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The price of Confucius Institutes

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BY EDITORIAL BOARD June 21
EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGES between the United States and China have grown to record numbers. With these programs come scholarly value but also risks.

Confucius Institutes offer an example of this trade-off. Continue reading →

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