Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Uighurs Under Threat as China Expands Repression
By  • 17 October 2018
The Id Kah mosque in the western Chinese city of Kashgar had long held thousands of worshipers every Friday. Yet as a government crackdown on China’s Muslim Uighur minority intensified earlier this year, news agencies…
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China's war on pollution
By  • 12 April 2018
China’s rapid economic growth over the past two decades been nothing short of remarkable. Of course there’s been a dark side to this growth. As China has built more factories, power plants and cars, it…
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In China's girls, artist sees a growing force
By  • 6 March 2018
  "I wanted to show the power that these little girls had." China's economic boom has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty in the past two decades and transformed a poor country into an…
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Gay rights in China
By  • 13 July 2017
Homosexuality may not be illegal in China, but LGBT people in the world's most populous country often live their lives in the shadows. By one estimate, as many as 80 percent of the country's 20…
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Project Exile: Chinese 'traitor' cartoonist exiled in Japan
By  • 22 May 2017
They even put up a notice in the state paper, The People's Daily, denouncing me as a "pro-Japan traitor." It was nearly midnight, and Chinese cartoonist Wang Liming (王立铭) had just returned to his Beijing apartment…
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Gay rights in China
By  • 16 February 2017
Homosexuality may not be illegal in China, but LGBT people in the world's most populous country often live their lives in the shadows. By one estimate, as many as 80 percent of the country's 20…
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China anti-gay stigma leads to marital deception
By , • 16 February 2017
"The app showed that there was a gay man 10 centimeters from me a half an hour ago. That is how I confirmed that my ex-husband is truly gay." Li did not know that her marriage was…
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The business of poaching
By  • 9 February 2017
Might your children or grandchildren someday live in a world without rhinoceroses or African elephants? The chances of that are probably higher than you might guess. There are just 350,000 elephants remaining on African savannas,…
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Chinese journalist disappeared after criticizing leader
By  • 25 March 2016
A Chinese journalist disappeared March 15 and was later confirmed to be detained by the police March 18. Jia Jia, a Beijing-based freelance journalist and columnist at the website Tencent Online, was on the phone with…
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China's new challenges
By  • 4 February 2016
For more than two decades, China has moved from strength to strength. Its economic miracle has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and dramatically increased the nation's global influence.  But recently China…
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