- Adam Minter: Chinese critics accuse Malaysia of acting like, well, China.
- China has won 783 medals at the Summer Paralympic Games, and zero at the Winter Paralympics.
- Barry Naughton writes that the implementation of economic reforms will happen differently to the past, particularly because of the recent creation of a Leading Small Group (LSG) focused on reform. Alice Miller has a great primer on LSGs here.
- Sinica podcast: Will China dominate the 21st century?
- The Saudi pivot to Asia.
- China is treading a fine diplomatic line in its response to the Crimean referendum.
- Xi Jinping's roadmap for China after the National People's Congress. Is Xi strong enough to deliver reform?
- Although Myanmar still faces a long road to full media freedom, there is a 'palpable sense of envy' among Chinese journalists for the gains already made in Myanmar.
- Jason Q Ng alerts us to a subtler form of Chinese censorship:
Whereas most censorship alerts the user to its presence with blunt error messages, attempting to instil a chilling effect, this subtler method gives users the mistaken impression of having shared their views with their online followers when, in fact, their messages are only visible on their own computers. Thus, authorities can shut down discussions without raising the spectre of netizens outraged that their posts have been deleted.