AP China Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 27 May 2022 11:22:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Chinese Public Opinion Matters https://daniellazar.com/2022/05/27/chinese-public-opinion-matters/ Fri, 27 May 2022 11:22:59 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=9502 Increasing centralization of power in China and reduced in-person exchanges with the West have driven the perception that only one person’s views in China matters: Xi Jinping’s. In addition to not having much power, most assume that Chinese citizens’ views are largely shaped by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda machine. Most in Washington believe … Continue reading Chinese Public Opinion Matters →

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]]> Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping https://daniellazar.com/2020/05/11/competition-the-coronavirus-and-the-weakness-of-xi-jinping/ Mon, 11 May 2020 18:46:03 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5937 In 2018, Xi decided to abolish presidential term limits, signaling his intention to stay in power indefinitely. He has indulged in heavy-handed purges, ousting prominent party officials under the guise of an anticorruption drive. What is more, Xi has suppressed protests in Hong Kong, arrested hundreds of human rights lawyers and activists, and imposed the tightest media … Continue reading Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping →

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]]> Frontline: China Undercover https://daniellazar.com/2020/05/11/frontline-china-undercover/ Mon, 11 May 2020 18:27:21 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5935 A special undercover report from China’s secretive Xinjiang region. FRONTLINE investigates the Communist regime’s mass imprisonment of Muslims, and its use and testing of sophisticated surveillance technology against the Uyghur community.

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]]> Chinese GDP E vs. W https://daniellazar.com/2018/09/06/chinese-gdp-e-vs-w/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:05:34 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5869   The map above from The Economist in 2010 shows China’s province’s GDPs and lists their nearest equivalent in the international community. The map illustrates the gap between China’s prosperous east and less prosperous west.

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]]> New Light On Chinese 'Reeducation Camps' For Muslims https://daniellazar.com/2018/08/10/new-light-on-chinese-reeducation-camps-for-muslims/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:19:31 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5867 41-year-old Sayragul Sauytbay has testified about the existence of a network of “reeducation camps” in western China where she says thousands of ethnic Kazakhs are incarcerated for “political indoctrination.” Unlike others who’ve fled abroad, saying they’d been forced to endure dehumanizing indoctrination at such camps, Sauytbay was not a camp detainee. She was a camp employee. … Continue reading New Light On Chinese 'Reeducation Camps' For Muslims →

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]]> China hints at three-child policy https://daniellazar.com/2018/08/10/china-hints-at-three-child-policy/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:16:34 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5865 Postage stamps unveiled earlier this week to mark the incoming Year of the Pig in February 2019 have led many social media users to question whether a loosening of family planning restrictions could be imminent. The stamps show a parent pig couple and three piglets. On the surface, it hardly appears to be a policy … Continue reading China hints at three-child policy →

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]]> Please Vote For Me https://daniellazar.com/2018/08/05/please-vote-for-me/ Sun, 05 Aug 2018 13:14:25 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5862 Please Vote for Me is a 2007 documentary film following the elections for class monitor in a 3rd grade class of eight-year-old children in the Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China. The candidates, Luo Lei, Xu Xiaofei, and Cheng Cheng, compete against each other for the coveted role and are egged on by their teachers and doting parents. This was reported … Continue reading Please Vote For Me →

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]]> Criminal Arrests in Xinjiang Account for 21% of China’s Total in 2017 https://daniellazar.com/2018/08/05/criminal-arrests-in-xinjiang-account-for-21-of-chinas-total-in-2017/ Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:39:56 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5854 According to Chinese government data, criminal arrests in Xinjiang accounted for an alarming 21% of all arrests in China in 2017, though the population in the XUAR is only about 1.5% of China’s total, based on the 2010 Census. Ethnic minorities account for nearly 60% of Xinjiang’s population, the largest group being ethnic Uyghurs, who account for 46% of the … Continue reading Criminal Arrests in Xinjiang Account for 21% of China’s Total in 2017 →

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]]> How Did Women Fare in China’s Communist Revolution? https://daniellazar.com/2017/11/25/how-did-women-fare-in-chinas-communist-revolution/ Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:46:59 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5780 While the Communist revolution brought women more job opportunities, it also made their interests subordinate to collective goals. Stopping at the household doorstep, Mao’s words and policies did little to alleviate women’s domestic burdens like housework and child care. And by inundating society with rhetoric blithely celebrating its achievements, the revolution deprived women of the … Continue reading How Did Women Fare in China’s Communist Revolution? →

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]]> Why Xi Jinping’s (Airbrushed) Face Is Plastered All Over China https://daniellazar.com/2017/11/25/why-xi-jinpings-airbrushed-face-is-plastered-all-over-china/ Sat, 25 Nov 2017 10:30:07 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5777   NY Times delves into the Cult of Xi

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