China, From Within: A First for Chinese Women, and a Prominent Muckraker Quits
JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images Every day, FP’s China team at the Tea Leaf Nation channel scours dozens of Chinese media outlets to find compelling stories unreported in Western mainstream press. This...
View ArticleChina, From Within: Tibet’s Drug Problem, and Taiwan’s New Gambling Islands
Getty Images Every day, FP’s China team at the Tea Leaf Nation channel scours dozens of Chinese media outlets to find compelling stories unreported in Western mainstream press. This week, we bring you...
View ArticleWhat China Searched for in 2014
Getty Images A person’s search history can be a telling trail, a map to an individual’s inner life and their real-world activities. So too with a nation’s search history. As some have said, you are...
View ArticleComing to Chinese Headlines in 2015
Getty Images At the end of 2013, FP’s Tea Leaf Nation proffered six predictions for Chinese headlines in 2014. Four of those six came to pass: political discussions continued to retreat back into...
View ArticleDo Chinese Care About ‘American Decline?’ In 2014, They Did Only Twice
For Americans, the term “American decline” may conjure up any number of bleak scenarios, from economic stagnation to the creeping corrosion of a liberal international order, or simply a vague,...
View ArticleFP’s 2015 Pacific Power Index
THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP ISN’T THE SUPERPOWER SHOWDOWN MOST ANALYSTS WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE. It’s a constantly shifting, symbiotic relationship shaped by millions of people, not just...
View ArticleThe Word That Broke the Chinese Internet
Weibo/Image remix by Foreign Policy It might be gibberish, but it’s also a sign of the times. The word duang, pronounced “dwong,” is spreading like wildfire throughout China’s active Internet – even...
View ArticleChina Kicks off New Web Crackdown
Getty Images It looks like the Chinese web may be in for another round of spring cleaning. On April 2, China’s National Sweep Out Porn, Strike At Rumors Office announced that three major domestic...
View ArticleThe World’s Leaders Are Avoiding Chinese Social Media
AFP/Getty Images On May 4, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his debut in the Chinese blogosphere, opening an account on microblogging platform Weibo that gained more than 44,000 followers...
View ArticleFor American Students in China, Some Risks, No Regrets
Getty Images There was a time not long ago, before the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and China in 1979, when travel between the two countries was a rare, even...
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