On Treatment of Contaminated Soil in China

By He Qinglian on Jan 5, 2014
Source Article in Chinese: 土地治污:中国学日本经验之难

On the New Year’s Eve, Wang Shiyuan, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), made an announcement that about 50 million mu (3.3 hectares) of arable land in China is too polluted for farming.

China's Bid to Challenge the US and Rewrite International Rules

Source article in Chinese: 2013年中国对美的探底式外交
By He Qinglian on November 30, 2013

While the Sino-US diplomatic relation is still far from sabre-rattling, it is obvious that China intends to test the bottom line of the US. By testing the bottom line I mean China's approach of continually pushing the boundary of its adversary. If its adversary yields, China would tentatively push further. This bottom-line testing of Beijing is not an ad hoc action taken on a whim, rather, it is a strategy developed a long time ago.

Xi Jinping: the second most powerful man after Mao Zedong

Source article in Chinese: 习近平:权位之重仅次于毛泽东的独裁者
By He Qinglian on November 13, 2013

For the Communist Party of China (CPC), the biggest political achievement of the Third Plenum of the 18th CPC Central Committee is that a National Security Committee would be created to improve the national security system and strategy. According to the political logic of the CPC, “l'Etat est le Parti”, the so-called national security means nothing other than the security of the red regime. Whatever reform policies the so-called “reform group” may put forward in future serve only to safeguard that regime.

China's Shadow over the UNHRC

Source article in Chinese: 何清涟:联合国人权理事会上的中国阴影
By He Qinglian on November 14, 2013

Following the election of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on November 12, countries with bad human rights records like China, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia and Algeria became its new members. Xinhua News Agency specially pointed out that China got elected with 176 votes (91% of total votes). When this story came out, twitter, the only place where Chinese netizens can freely express themselves, was boiled over. Some commented sarcastically that this was “an invasion of the UNHRC by barbaric tribes”. Cartoonist @badiucao drew a picture, the comeback of the Panda, which depicted a panda putting a barbed wire annulus with spikes onto the emblem of the UN.