The world's two biggest superpowers are about to choose their next leaders. While the American battle is laid bare for all to see, in China, Beijing's new emperor and his closest advisers are something of a mystery. That hasn't stopped the rest of...
Update 26/10: The clip below has now been blocked in China. While Korean pop sensation Psy was teaching UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon how to do the Gangnam Style dance, Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei was at work in his Beijing studio mastering the...
Sometime before the end of the year, China Communist party will hold its 18th Congress, when the old batch of leaders will step aside for a new crop. Rumours are flying about what will happen then, from the almost certainty that Xi Jinping will...
It was the Dalai Lama’s birthday last week; he turned 77. China celebrated in its own unique way by severing public communication services, with both text messaging and internet access disabled for two days in Ganzi prefecture, a Tibetan autonomous...
The Chinese delegation of commissioning editors has pulled out of the Sheffield Documentary Festival due to the screening of a film about artist Ai Weiwei called Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Directed by Alison Klayman, the film observes the subversive...
This piece originally appeared on the Huffington Post and is cross-posted with the author's permission Just down the street from Fudan University, one of the top colleges in China, and across from a massive shopping complex that has a Wal Mart, a...
UPDATE: Chen Guangcheng's relatives have described beatings by local authorities since the activist fled house arrest last month. His brother, Chen Guangfu, father of Chen Kegui was reportedly detained for three days, during which time he was...
Al Jazeera English's China correspondent, Melissa Chan, has been expelled from the People's Republic after five years in the country. The TV station's English arm today announced it has closed its Beijing bureau after the Chinese authorities...
The twists and turns in the fate of "barefoot lawyer" Chen Guangcheng have held all in its thrall. Despite the vigilance of web censors, China's netizens --- particularly its social media users --- have found inventive new ways of discussing the...
In a day of dramatic developments, the blind Chinese lawyer who left the US embassy in Beijing yesterday has called on Barack Obama to do everything possible to let his family leave China. “I would like to say to (President Obama): Please do...