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June 5, 2015

China
Guest Post: With the Gaokao, Hacking and Drones Are Just a Way to Get Ahead

By Lincoln Davidson Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Each year, millions of Chinese high school graduates take a two-day college entran…

A police officer displays a pair of glasses (R) with a hidden camera and a tiny receiver attached to a coin, which are both exam cheating equipment confiscated by the police, in Shenyang, Liaoning province November 22, 2013. Chinese authorities vowed harsh treatment for organizing or helping cheating in the national college entrance exam, which took place on June 7 and 8 this year. Education and police authorities will continue to investigate crimes including stealing and selling examination papers, leakin

April 5, 2016

China
Journey to the East: Why Facebook Won’t Make it in China

Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ever since Facebook was banned in China following riots in Xinjiang Province, China, in summer 2009, th…

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (L) talks with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg during a gathering of tech executives at Microsoft's main campus, September 23, 2015. (Ted S. Warren/Reuters)

May 27, 2016

China
Friday Asia Update: Five Stories From the Week of May 27, 2016

Rachel Brown, Lincoln Davidson, Theresa Lou, Gabriella Meltzer, Pei-Yu Wei, and James West look at five stories from Asia this week. 1. Obama offers subtle criticisms in Vietnam. Much of the coverag…

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June 24, 2015

China
Guest Post: China’s "Back to the Countryside" Policy: A Step Toward Reducing Rural-Urban Disparity

By Lincoln Davidson Lincoln Davidson is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Earlier this week, the Chinese government announced a set of policies aimed at enc…

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October 25, 2017

Syria
Documentary Screening and Discussion of 'Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS'

Panelists will discuss National Geographic Documentary Films’ Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS, as well as the Syrian war and its political and social consequences. 

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