Volume 12 Issue 5

Articles from Volume 12 Issue 5

PLA Air Force Male Aviation Cadet Recruitment, Education and Training

03.02.2012 Kenneth Allen

China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) is still searching for the best way to recruit, educate and train its male aviation cadets (feixing xueyuan)....

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China’s New Property Tax: Toward a Stable Financial Future for Local Government?

03.02.2012 Eve Cary

Just over a year ago, the Chinese government took the unprecedented step of launching a trial property tax in response to rising real estate prices....

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The Dalai Lama Card Reappears in Sino-Mongolian Relations

03.02.2012 Alicia J. Campi

The mid-November 2011 surprise four-day visit to Mongolia of the 14th Dalai Lama reignited simmering Chinese worries about how the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader is...

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Hu Jintao Draws Blood with the Wang Lijun Scandal

03.02.2012

After apparently engineering the contretemps that have hit Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai, President Hu Jintao is putting additional pressure on other members of the...

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Another Lei Feng Revival: Making Maoism Safe for China

03.02.2012 Peter Mattis2

Chinese political culture contains a lot of dangerous ideas for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This may go a long ways toward explaining Beijing’s fickle...

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