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16 December 2011

China: Actor Christian Bale Roughed Up Trying to Visit Chen Guangcheng

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Hollywood actor Christian Bale made a detour from promotion in Beijing of his upcoming film to try and visit illegally detained Chinese human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng, hoping to shake the hand of a man he calls an inspiration.

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11 December 2011

China: Why Didn't Putin Come Pick Up His Confucius Peace Prize?

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

A renegade operation by Chinese leftists aimed at winning China some soft power points has backfired: Not only has the Chinese government tried to shut them down, but now a second recipient of their annual "Confucius Peace Prize" has declined to accept the award.

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4 December 2011

China: Monitoring the 2012 Presidential Election

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Chinese netizen interest this weekend in the first of three debates leading up to Taiwan's presidential election next month suggests more attention will be paid to this round than was given to the island's 2008 elections, and the focus has also expanded beyond each parties' stance on reunification with China.

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20 November 2011

China: United States Begins ‘Pacific Century', Online Nationalism Follows

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

As the US quickly asserts its position in the Asia-Pacific region, nationalist sentiment has leapt at similar speed from somewhat marginalized online communities to the top of China's largest blog portals.

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9 November 2011

China: On the Rise But Feeling Boxed In

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

China is surrounded by 85% of the political hotspots in the world, argues one prominent professor, and needs to be free to deal with those and other geopolitical problems it faces, beginning with access to the seas it borders.

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8 November 2011

China: Japan's Imaginary Enemy

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Recent Japanese media reports portraying China as the enemy in a Japan-US naval exercise reportedly scheduled for this week have brought even more tension to territorial claims between the two Asian nations. John Kennedy reports.

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