- Despite discomfort with Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign and insistence on changes to work style, no organised opposition to Xi is forming.
- Three elite Chinese universities vow to strengthen ideological control over students, teachers.
- Local government moves to sell their companies could be even more significant than central government SOE reforms.
- Chinese applicant numbers to US graduate schools are plateauing but that's fine, writes Elizabeth Economy.
- Evan Osnos contends that Beijing's decision to deny open nominations for Hong Kong's Chief Executive is a safe short-term option but sows seeds for further discontent. He adds that the middle class response will be key if tensions increase.
- Beijing's decision on Hong Kong elections threatens the city's status as a finance hub.
- World's first 3D-printed vertebra implanted into a Beijing boy?.
- Local authorities in a rural Xinjiang county are offering cash incentives for interracial marriages.
- Chinese food safety violations are reportedly more likely to become public knowledge through investigative journalism than via government sources.
China links: 3D printing, US grad schools, Hong Kong, interracial marriage and more
Published 3 Sep 2014
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