Keyword: china

Photo of the Day: Crossing the River in Kashgar

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Two young men cross the river on a horse cart in Kashgar on February 28, 2012. (Carl Welsby /Flickr)

Video: Photographer Sean Gallagher Says China's Environment 'Everybody's Problem'

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Photographer and videographer Sean Gallagher outlines China's wide-ranging environmental problems in this multimedia profile.

Interview: Richard Brubaker on Why Apple's Problems Go Beyond Foxconn

A customer walks under an Apple logo sign at an Apple shop in Shanghai on February 22, 2012. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)
Business A Shanghai-based Corporate Social Responsibility expert says media focus on Apple supplier Foxconn may be missing the larger issue.

Orville Schell: A 'More Even Keel' for US-China Relations?

Chinese and American Vice Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden visit Asia Society’s International Studies Learning Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 17, 2012. (Courtesy of the school)
Policy

The Director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations and other experts share insights into what Xi Jinping brings to the U.S-China relationship.

Interview: Robert Barnett on Why Tibetans Are Setting Themselves on Fire

Tibetans offer prayers near mock coffins to represent the victims self-immolation during a rally in Siliguri, in the Indian state of West Bengal, on February 8, 2012. China said February 7 it would 'resolutely crack down' on any attempts to instigate violence in Tibetan-inhabited areas, where authorities have launched a deadly clampdown on protesters. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images)
Policy

Current tensions — including Tibetan monks and nuns using self-immolation as a form of protest — are not going to disappear without some concession from China's government, says a leading Tibet expert.

Interview: Ryan Pyle, an 'Anthropologist With a Camera' in China [Photos]

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Photographer Ryan Pyle discusses his wide selection of stunning black and white photos from China with the Asia Blog.

Tiger, Tiger: Can the US and China 'Live Harmoniously'?

US President Barack Obama and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping speak during meetings in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 14, 2012. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Policy

The two countries must not allow election year hysteria and nationalist forces to taint what will continue to be an essential, albeit challenging, relationship, write Andrew Billo and Yan Shufen.

US and China VPs Schooled in International Studies [Photos]

International Studies Learning Center students presented Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and American Vice President Joe Biden with gifts. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)
Education

Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping visited Asia Society's International Studies Learning Center in Los Angeles on Friday.

Gallup: Americans Like China Less Now Than They Did a Year Ago

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Lifestyle

Several Asian nations held up the rear of a Gallup poll released yesterday measuring Americans' favorability toward foreign countries.

Photo of the Day: Bikes in China

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A lomo-style image of some bikes leaning against a slowly decaying wall somewhere in China on February 17, 2012. (Carl Welsby /Flickr)