China Reel (Mandarin)

Impartial, indepth, and insightful, the flagship China news and current affairs magazine provides unique reports and analysis on China, including Big Interviews, Scholars Commentary, China in the World, Press features about China, and Chinese on China.

• ChinaReel: RMB Trade Settlement 13th July 2009

  China has officially opened a pilot program to allow companies to settle imports and exports in RMB in selected regions. Does it mark a major step toward eventually internationalizing the Chinese currency? Zhang Wei, an economist from Cambridge University comments.

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• ChinaReel: Past Experience in Xinjiang by a Han Chinese 10th July 2009

  Businessman David Zhou lived and worked in Xinjiang for more than 20 years in the 60s and 70s. He talked to Chinareel about his experiences on Han/Uighur relations and China's ethnic minority policy.

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• ChinaReel: Xinjiang's Labour Export, a Faulty Policy? 9th July 2009

  What triggered the Xinjiang riot at the weekend happened some four thousand kilometers away. Two Uighur workers were killed in an ethnic violence. They were among a group of hundreds of Uighurs sent to Guangdong under Xinjiang's labour export policy. Chinareel analyses the background and result of such a policy.

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• ChinaReel: Xinjiang Riot and China's Ethnic Policy 08/07/09

  The unrest between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese began on Sunday the 5th July has left 156 people dead, thousands injured and arrested. What's the root reason for that? A Taiwan-based expert exams China's ethnic policy

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• ChinaReel: China Lawyer Suppression 7th July 2009

  Beijing Judicial Bureau has refused to renew many human rights lawyers' licences alleging they didn't pass "the test for lawyers". But analysts claim that it is a deliberate act and a sign of further suppression of human rights lawyers. Jiang Zhiyong, one of the lawyers who failed the test, interprets it to China Reel.

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