- That's right, provincial officials in Guangzhou have been banned from calling each other 'gangster' names like 'boss' and 'bro'.
- Chinese companies are struggling to come to terms with a new culture of protest in Myanmar.
- A very simple primer, with pictures, on the difficulties facing Chinese urbanisation.
- Why hasn't Beijing lifted the nationalism switch against Vietnam?
- Putin: Russia-China ties at their highest level in history.
- A number of murder victims in China have reappeared alive, shining a light on some of the less savoury parts of the legal system.
- Over at Tea Leaf Nation, Daniel M Kliman asks whether China is the fastest-rising power in history.
- Staying with Tea Leaf Nation: meet China's swaggering, 'diehard' criminal lawyers.
- The surge in Chinese trips abroad is overwhelming consular staff; travelers now outnumber them 190,000 to 1.
- A great account of how Chinese triads smuggled hundreds of Tiananmen protesters to Hong Kong in 1989.
China links: Gangster names, Putin, urbanisation, Myanmar, triads and more
Published 21 May 2014
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