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The Long Crane of the Law: Liaoning Corruption and the Customs Bureau
Chinese President Xi Jinping steps up anti-corruption drive against customs officials amid strong trade growth with the DPRK and South Korea
Aborted Tourism Reopening Reflects Geopolitical Priorities in Pyongyang
Russian tourists first in line amid limited acceptance of foreign visitors, as Chinese tour groups fail to return to DPRK border destinations Sinuiju, Manpo, and Samjiyon
The Dandong Chess Board: Trade, Anti-Corruption, and Russian Visitors
What are the ambitions of Chinese Communist Party cadre in Dandong in opening up further to North Korea and Russia? And a local anti-corruption update.
China’s Ground Game in Dandong and North Korea
As Sino-North Korean bilateral relations intensify, Adam Cathcart looks at China’s ground game in Pyongyang and Dandong, with a focus on business.
Chinese Intellectuals, the CIA, and Defector Memoirs in the 1960s
Newly declassified documents shed light on a CIA operation to extract high-level intellectuals as defectors from the People’s Republic of China. We also look at defector accounts of meetings with Mao Zedong.
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