by jpitney | Nov 16, 2020 | China, Trade
Keith Bradsher and Ana Swanson at NY Times: After eight years of talks, China and 14 other nations from Japan to New Zealand to Myanmar on Sunday formally signed one of the world’s largest regional free trade agreements, a pact shaped by Beijing partly as a...
by jpitney | May 10, 2020 | China, Technology
From the Congressional Research Service: According to the National Science Foundation’s 2017 survey of STEM doctorate recipients from U.S. IHEs, 72% of foreign doctorate recipients were still in the United States 10 years after receiving their degrees. This percentage...
by jpitney | Feb 21, 2020 | China, Nixon
As History.com notes, Nixon went to China on this date in 1972: The American fear of a monolithic communist bloc had been modified, as a war of words—and occasional border conflicts—erupted between the Soviet Union and the PRC in the 1960s. Nixon, and National...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2019 | China, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Uncategorized
Fred Hiatt at The Washington Post: To punish Gulchehra Hoja, a Washington-based journalist for Radio Free Asia, and to stifle her reporting, China’s rulers have imprisoned her brother, harassed her parents and threatened many other relatives back home in Xinjiang,...
by jpitney | Nov 18, 2019 | China, Internet, Mass Media, Uncategorized
Adrian Shabaz and Allie Funk at Freedom House: Freedom on the Net is a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 65 countries around the globe, covering 87 percent of the world’s internet users. It tracks improvements and declines in internet freedom conditions each...
