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Friday, 8 November 2013

How Big Formula bought China

Posted on 09:40 by Unknown
By Alexandra Harney

A family looks at foreign imported milk powder products at a supermarket in Beijing in this July 3, 2013 file photo.
SHANGHAI -- In the two days after Lucy Yang gave birth at Peking University Third Hospital in August 2012, doctors and nurses told the 33-year-old technology executive that while breast milk was the best food for her son, she hadn't produced enough. 
They advised her instead to start him on infant formula made by Nestle.
"They support only this brand, and they don't let your baby drink other brands," Yang recalled. 
"The nurses told us not to use our own formula. They told us if we did, and something happened to the child, they wouldn't take any responsibility."
For Nestle and other infant formula producers, there is one significant complication for their China business: a 1995 Chinese regulation designed to ensure the impartiality of physicians and protect the health of newborns. It bars hospital personnel from promoting infant formula to the families of babies younger than six months, except in the rare cases when a woman has insufficient breast milk or cannot breastfeed for medical reasons. Nestle told Reuters it supports this code and has tried to strengthen its implementation. 
Peking University Third Hospital declined repeated requests for comment.
Most women have enough breast milk to feed their infants, scientific studies show. 
The World Health Organization advocates exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, starting within an hour of delivery. 
Breastfeeding leads to better health for babies and mothers, including protection against infection for infants and lower rates of breast and ovarian cancer for women, WHO says.
A Reuters examination reveals that global infant formula companies have found ways to skirt and violate the 1995 code, which they support publicly. 
Reuters interviewed nearly two dozen Chinese women who have delivered babies at hospitals around China over the last two years. 
Like Lucy Yang, most experienced the aggressive tactics of formula makers.
Until very recently, enforcement of China's 1995 regulation had been rare. 
Neither WHO nor UNICEF can point to a single instance where fines had been imposed since it was introduced. 
Reuters contacted five prominent Chinese law firms and -- underlining the regulation's obscurity in Chinese legal circles -- not one was familiar with it.
The National Health and Family Planning Commission, one of the government bodies charged with enforcing the regulation, did not respond to a question about its enforcement. 
Neither did the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, which also has enforcement authority.
But the enforcement climate may be changing. 
The new Chinese government that took office this year is in the midst of a widespread crackdown on corruption, and the practices of big formula appear to be in its cross-hairs. 
On October 14, Paris-based Danone Corp said it would replace managers in China after state-owned CCTV broadcast a report that the company's formula unit — Dumex — had bribed doctors in the northern city of Tianjin to gain better access for its product.
Dumex China expressed "deep regret" over what it called "lapses" and promised "full accountability."
The same day, local officials said 13 medical workers in Tianjin had been dealt a range of punishments from warnings to dismissals.
Big formula's practices in China have also caught the attention of U.S. regulators. 
In August 2012, Pfizer Inc and its unit Wyeth agreed to pay more than $45 million combined as part of separate settlements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
In its complaint, the SEC charged that between 2005 and 2010, Wyeth paid bribes to officials outside the United States, including those in Chinese state-owned hospitals, to encourage them to recommend Wyeth's nutritional products and to gain access to records of new births that could be used for marketing, and then disguised these payments as expense claims. 
Under the terms of the settlement, Wyeth neither admitted nor denied the allegations.
GLOBAL BOYCOTT
Infant formula is controversial in many countries, and China is no exception. 
In the 1970s, growing concern that formula marketed to mothers in developing countries was contributing to malnutrition led to a global boycott of Nestle products. 
It prompted the World Health Assembly, the WHO's decision-making body, to pass a code curbing the marketing of baby formula. 
Since then, 103 countries, including China, have introduced legislation to implement parts of this code.
While campaigns promoting the benefits of breastfeeding have tainted formula's image in the West, in China, public debate about formula is mostly about safety. 
In 2004, at least 50 children died from malnutrition after drinking fake infant formula with little nutritive value. Four years later, formula sold by local brand Sanlu -- laced with the industrial chemical melamine -- sickened nearly 300,000 infants and killed six, fueling national outrage over government food safety controls.
The stain of Sanlu has proven hard to erase. 
Because many Chinese parents still doubt the quality of domestic brands, international formula makers can charge a premium to domestic brands. 
Foreign formula firms now control about a third of the Chinese market, according to consultancy Euromonitor International. 
In 2012, two of the three best-selling brands were foreign. 
Mead Johnson has a 14 percent market share, Danone controls 9 percent and Nestle 7.5 percent.
China is fertile ground for formula makers. 
A traditional Chinese belief that women should rest for the first month after delivery gives older family members greater say in the feeding and care of newborns. 
Relatives often prefer formula as it helps babies sleep for longer stretches. 
Many families, moreover, prize pudgy babies, who are seen as healthier. 
Formula-fed infants gain weight more quickly, studies show.
China's high rate of cesarean sections -- the world's second highest at 46 percent of all deliveries -- leads more mothers to start their babies on formula. 
Mothers fear drugs used in the operation will affect their breast milk. 
There is also a common belief that China's chronic air pollution is harming mothers' milk supply.
Government surveys show a low breastfeeding rate -- just 28 percent of Chinese women were exclusively breastfeeding at six months as of 2008, down from 51 percent in 2003. 
Independent researchers suggest the real figure is much lower. 
One study published in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition in 2010 found exclusive breastfeeding rates at six months in parts of China were as low as 0.2 percent.
With infant formula sales in the United States declining because of a falling birth rate and a rise in breastfeeding, developing nations -- China foremost among them -- are formula companies' biggest opportunity.
In 2008, China surpassed the United States to become the world's largest formula market. 
Euromonitor expects sales of infant formula in China to double from $12 billion last year to $25 billion in 2017.

FREE SAMPLES
Under China's 1995 code, companies may not distribute free formula or samples to pregnant women, their families and hospitals. 
They can't sell products at a discount. 
Nor may they offer hospitals funding, equipment or information in order to promote their product.
The regulation bars hospitals and academic institutions from accepting gifts or help from formula companies or promoting infant formula products. 
It requires medical institutions to "actively advocate" the advantages of breastfeeding.
Penalties for violations, however, are lenient -- the maximum fine is 30,000 yuan ($4,900). 
Enforcement is complicated by its division across several government bodies: the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and the General Administration of Press and Publication.
Public awareness of the regulation is low. 
Chinese research firm Beijing Shennong Kexin Agribusiness Consulting counts hospitals as one of the four primary channels for sales of infant formula, alongside supermarkets, baby product stores, and the Internet.
Doctors and their recommendations have the largest impact, it wrote in a November 2012 report. Consumers find "organizing activities inside hospitals around nutrition more scientific and persuasive."
Reuters found formula company advertising and promotion commonplace inside hospitals. 
In August, visitors to the maternity ward at Hangzhou Tianmushan Hospital in eastern China were greeted with banners from Mead Johnson that read: "Healthy babies, happy mothers" and "Give baby the best start in life!"
A picture of a baby drinking from a bottle and the Mead Johnson logo adorned the floor guide. 
On the VIP maternity wing, nurse Xia Lingling -- a new mother herself -- said Mead Johnson representatives regularly visited to drop off samples for new mothers and to give talks to the staff.
Xia explained that every patient who delivers at the hospital and stays on the VIP wing receives a free container of Mead Johnson upon the baby's birth. 
Mead Johnson "promotes their infant formula here . . . it's a form of advertising," said Zhang Yueqin, an obstetrician at the hospital.
A Hangzhou Tianmushan spokesman, who would only give his name as Fan, denied the hospital touted Mead Johnson formula to mothers. 
He said promotional materials were intended to improve the medical knowledge of expectant and new mothers. 
The hospital displayed no branded posters from Mead Johnson, he said. 
By late September, the posters had been taken down, Reuters confirmed.
In a statement emailed to Reuters, Mead Johnson said it does not provide formula directly to mothers in hospitals. 
It does give samples to health care professionals "for the purpose of professional evaluation or research, and all of them are clearly marked ‘For medical use only - Not for Resale' on the label," the statement said.
Mead Johnson said it provided posters and "other materials to display in or around maternity wings" if requested by hospital staff. 
These materials "fully comply with the laws and regulations in China," it said.

PUSHING FORMULA
Mothers whom Reuters interviewed said formula was pushed to them in myriad ways: doctors gave them discount cards for infant formula during prenatal checkups; hospital staff strapped identity bands branded by formula companies to their babies' limbs; formula representatives entered their hospital rooms to distribute samples as they recovered from giving birth.
At Beijing Tiantan Hospital, representatives from companies, including Nestle and Wyeth, visited with formula samples for mothers and presents for doctors, said Dr. Yang, who worked as an obstetrician there until 2009. 
"We weren't given a commission, just small gifts."
She declined to elaborate on the nature of the gifts, or be identified by her full name. 
Kuang Yuanshen, a hospital spokesman, said that without more detail, it was impossible to confirm Dr. Yang's allegations. 
Wyeth said by email that company representatives were "strictly forbidden" from visiting hospitals to distribute free samples.
Four former formula company representatives, however, confirmed these kinds of dealings take place. 
A former Nestle sales representative said she brought samples to doctors and took them to dinner. 
A former Nestle marketing executive said it was standard industry practice in China to provide financial incentives to doctors to recommend a certain brand of formula. 
Chinese doctors, she said, expect it.
In an emailed response to questions, Nestle confirmed it has "a medical-trained team who visits hospitals to provide factual information about our product features and up-to-date nutrition and health-related information to doctors." 
Nestle "does not provide any free supply to hospitals nor incentivize doctors to promote our products," it said.
Many underpaid and overworked doctors in China's state-dominated healthcare system have no choice but to rely on incentives from companies, however, says John Cai, director of the Centre for Healthcare Management and Policy at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. 
The official annual take-home pay for an obstetrician with nearly two decades' experience in a public hospital might be only $5,000, depending on the services she offers, doctors said.
"A company might approach you and say they'd like to support your work," says Qiu Liqian, an obstetrician and associate professor at the Women's Hospital at Zhejiang University Medical School. 
"If you're organizing an academic conference, or you're organizing an event on nutrition, or an event on preventing infection, they would offer their assistance." 
Formula companies pay for prominent Chinese doctors to attend academic conferences, which she called "free holidays".
Bribery to obtain an unfair business advantage is illegal under both China's Anti-Unfair Competition and Criminal Laws. 
Bribery can include paying for sponsorship, scientific research and travel expenses under the Anti-Unfair Competition Law; under an interpretation of the Criminal Law, paying travel costs is one of many recognized forms of bribery.

UNDERGROUND MARKET

Some formula companies also utilize a large underground market in hospital patient information. 
This gives them immediate access to the names, phone numbers and due dates of pregnant women and new mothers, according to a medical researcher and sales executive who have seen name lists of pregnant women for sale at hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai.
Under a 2009 amendment to China's Criminal Law, it is illegal for employees in the medical sector to sell patients' personal data. 
Stealing or acquiring such information illegally is also a crime.
Contacting mothers through prenatal classes is one way formula companies get access to expecting mothers. At one such class taught by Abbott at Shanghai East International Medical Center, participants received a 400-gram (15-oz) tub of Abbott formula, according to Gao Meng, a 33-year-old office manager from Shanghai who attended.
Shanghai East confirmed that Abbott representatives had trained their nurses in Lamaze breathing techniques and taught prenatal classes at the hospital between April and July this year, because of their "expertise" in Lamaze breathing. 
No infant formula was distributed at these classes, a spokeswoman said. 
A spokesman for Abbott declined to comment.
Hospitals and doctors sell access to prenatal classes to third-party companies, including formula manufacturers, said a sales executive who uses Shanghai hospitals as a marketing platform for his company's nanny services. 
That access allows companies to lead classes, distribute promotional materials or make an appearance to plug their products, he said.
Eighteen mothers in cities around China interviewed by Reuters said infant formula companies contacted them by phone or text message, both during their pregnancies and starting as soon as an hour after they had delivered their babies.
Yang Jing, a 33-year-old department store manager in Beijing who had a baby in 2011, said formula companies including Wyeth called her to ask about her son's development. 
Formula would help her son be stronger, they told her. 
Samples arrived at her home. 
She said she had never given a formula company her address.
Wyeth said it "has clear guidelines for our sales activities to exclude any sales or marketing activities relating to breast milk substitutes that would target consumers, either by phone or face to face contact." 
It promised an investigation into this case.

IT'S ACADEMIC

Most of the major infant formula companies have cultivated ties with the government in China — including departments affiliated with the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), one of the agencies tasked with enforcing the 1995 regulation on formula marketing.
Companies fund hospital research and awards for doctors, sponsor conferences and train state medical personnel -- the same medical professionals who are supposed to be actively advocating breastfeeding.
Nestle has been among the most active in the government relations area, breastfeeding advocates say. 
It has sponsored training for officials from mother-and child clinics. 
It backed a Chinese academic study analyzing the composition of Chinese mothers' breast milk. 
Peking University Third, where Lucy Yang had her baby, was among the hospitals the Swiss food giant chose to conduct clinical trials on the use of breast milk "fortifier" for premature infants between 2010 and 2011.
Nestle said it "works with the Ministry of Health and healthcare institutions to promote public awareness and knowledge of health and nutrition."
Last year, Mead Johnson launched a three-year training program for medical personnel in the southwestern province of Yunnan, working with a Chinese foundation. 
The program focused on improving staff's understanding of nutrition and "scientific feeding" for children from birth to age three, according to company publicity materials.
Training of medical personnel that is intended as a gift is a clear violation of both the 1981 WHO code and China's 1995 regulation, said Beijing-based WHO technical officer Wen Chunmei.
In a statement, Mead Johnson described its training project as "philanthropic".

ACCESS TO POLICYMAKERS
Nestle and other foreign formula companies also enjoy direct access to Chinese policymakers. 
During discussions about revising the 1995 regulation that began in December 2011, the Ministry of Health (now the NHFPC) solicited opinions from big foreign formula brands as well as global health and children's organizations.
Nestle sought to weaken some of the proposed provisions, some of which were more stringent than the 1995 regulation and would have brought China closer in line with WHO regulations, according to a copy of its submission obtained by Reuters.
Despite publicly supporting the WHO code, Nestle objected to a proposed rule that formula packaging should display in a conspicuous way the wording "breastfeeding is recommended". 
The WHO code says formula containers should clearly and conspicuously display a statement on the superiority of breastfeeding.
Nestle told Reuters that the proposed labeling risked inconsistency with a Chinese infant food safety standard "which provides clear guidelines to ensure that messages on labels are displayed in a standardized manner".
Nestle further opposed a proposed ban in the revised code on formula companies funding hospital research into breast milk alternatives. 
In its statement to Reuters, Nestle said the research was "necessary for the development of science-based products that can save the lives of those infants who cannot have adequate breast feeding." 
Nestle also sought to limit the proposed code's application to formula for "full term, healthy babies", an exclusion not in the WHO code, though it says it did not try to make an exception for specialty formulas.
"Quite frankly," Nestle wrote Reuters, "all our recommendations were meant to introduce a stricter local code as well as implementation." 
Nestle added that it urged extending the curb on promoting formula from infants' first six months to their first 12.

SIGNS OF CHANGE
The Chinese government is showing signs of taking the 1995 regulation more seriously. 
After the Chinese television story about Dumex, the health ministry warned hospitals to strengthen enforcement of the code. 
Three government agencies jointly issued a notice reinforcing its main principles.
But while the 1995 regulation is getting more attention, the attempt to revise it remains in limbo. 
The NFPHC, in a faxed response to questions, said the number of government departments involved and the number of sectors the code covered, as well as the reorganization of government departments, had slowed the process of revision.
Wen, the WHO technical officer, said there may not have been sufficient public education about the 1995 code. 
But she stressed that infant feeding was an issue that "all of society" needed to address. 
"If training is confined to the medical system," she said, "it will only have a limited impact on raising the exclusive breastfeeding rate."
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  • Comite de Apoyo al Tibet
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  • Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations
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  • dogfight
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  • eight-year probe
  • electric irons
  • Elephant Hunting
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  • Empire of Lies: The Truth About China in the XXI Century
  • Employing Land-Based Anti-Ship Missiles in the Western Pacific
  • Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
  • Empress in the Palace
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  • Energias de Portugal
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  • governance
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  • guanxi
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  • Hamas
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  • history
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  • humiliation
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  • hydroelectric power
  • hypocritical nation
  • IBM
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  • idioms
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  • independent judiciary
  • india
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  • lead
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  • legal warfare
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  • Leninist corporatism
  • letter of remorse
  • LG Group
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  • Li Peng
  • liaison
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  • Liaoning
  • lies
  • life sentence
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  • Lijia Zhang
  • Lily Chang
  • Lin Xin
  • Line
  • Line application
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  • line-cutting
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  • Liu Tienan
  • Liu Xia
  • Liu Xianbin
  • Liu Xiaobo
  • Liu Yazhou
  • Liverpool
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  • local government debt
  • local government financing vehicles
  • Lockheed Martin
  • locusts
  • lonely Chinese male
  • long-range land attack cruise missile
  • long-range missile defense system
  • Lost in Thailand
  • loudness
  • Louis Vuitton
  • love lives
  • low Earth orbit
  • low-quality tourists
  • loyalty
  • Lu Xun
  • Lunar Defense Obliteration Zone
  • lung cancer
  • Luo Yang
  • lust
  • luxury
  • luxury brands
  • luxury goods
  • luxury goods industry
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  • LVMH
  • mafia state
  • magnetic powders
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  • Mao Zedong
  • Mao's Great Famine
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  • Maoist restoration
  • Maoist techniques
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  • Mark Stokes
  • market reforms
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  • mass line
  • mass line rectification campaign
  • mass shootings
  • massive disaster
  • massive online censorship
  • Mattel
  • Matthew Winkler
  • Mauritania
  • Mead Johnson
  • media independence
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  • media warfare
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  • mega-dams
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  • Mekong
  • Mekong River
  • melamine
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  • military alliance
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  • minimum deterrent military capacity
  • mining industry
  • minyao
  • miracle cure
  • mirror sites
  • mirrored version
  • misallocation of capital
  • misogyny
  • missile defense system
  • missiles
  • mixed marriages
  • mob boss
  • modern slavery
  • modernization strategy
  • MolyCorp Inc.
  • monopoly on rumors
  • mooncakes
  • moral victory
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Mount Fuji
  • Mowa
  • Mowa Village
  • multinationals
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  • Munk School of Global Affairs
  • murder
  • Murong Xuecun
  • Museum of Contemporary Art
  • mutual suspicion
  • MV-22 Osprey
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  • National Broadband Network
  • National Court
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  • national habit
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  • National Intelligence Council
  • National Museum of China
  • National Museum of the Philippines
  • national security
  • National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy
  • NATO
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  • naval exercise
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  • Nazi Germany
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  • New Citizens Movement
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  • New Horizon Capital
  • new reserve currency
  • new rich
  • new type of great-power relations
  • New York Times
  • news distributor
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  • Niger
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  • Nikki Aaron
  • nine haves
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  • Ningguo
  • No Exit From Pakistan: America’s Troubled Relationship With Islamabad
  • No. 8 Middle School
  • Nobel Peace Prize
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  • North Korea
  • nose-picking
  • nouveau riche
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  • Nutricia
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  • obligations
  • OECD
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  • one-child policy
  • online dissent
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  • OPEC
  • Open Constitution Initiative
  • OpenDoor
  • Operation Aurora
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  • oppression
  • oppressive occupier
  • orbital debris
  • Ordos
  • organ donations
  • organ harvesting from prisoners
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  • organised prostitution
  • outlandish names
  • outrage
  • overcapacity
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  • P-3C Orion
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  • Pacific Defense Quadrangle
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  • paintings
  • Pakistan
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  • paper tiger
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  • paranoid authoritarian government
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  • party discipline and purity
  • Party Plenum
  • Party's Third Plenum
  • patients’ anger
  • Patriot air defense systems
  • patriotism
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  • Paul Mooney
  • Paul Reichler
  • payment defaults
  • pedophilia
  • Peel Group
  • Peel Holdings
  • peinü
  • Peking
  • Peking University
  • Peking University Cancer Hospital
  • Peng Ming
  • Periplaneta americana
  • Perry Link
  • persecution
  • personal liberty
  • pet food
  • Peter Humphrey
  • Pfizer
  • Pfizer Inc.
  • Phiblex
  • Philippines
  • Photoshop
  • Phuket International Airport
  • physical abuses
  • physical assaults
  • pig trotters
  • Ping An
  • PISA
  • pivot to Asia
  • pivot to Eurasia
  • PLA Navy
  • PLA's National Defence University
  • placebo effect
  • PM 2.5
  • PM2.5
  • poison jerky treats
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  • police interference
  • police state
  • political corruption
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  • political freedom
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  • political prisoners
  • political reform
  • political struggle sessions
  • political trust
  • political warfare
  • pollution
  • Poly International Auction company
  • poor behaviour
  • population growth
  • Portland
  • Portugal
  • positivist science
  • potential brides
  • power
  • power struggle
  • Powerful Sex Shop
  • Pranab Mukherjee
  • PRC’s candidacy
  • premature deaths
  • premodern and imperialist expansionism
  • press event
  • press freedom
  • price fixing
  • price-fixing accusations
  • prices
  • princeling
  • Princeton University Press
  • prisoner of conscience
  • pro-democracy manifesto
  • Probe International
  • professional body double
  • profitable industry
  • Program for International Student Assessment
  • Program of International Student Assessment
  • Project 2049 Institute
  • Project Seascape
  • propaganda
  • property bubble
  • property bubbles
  • prostitution
  • protest
  • protests
  • pseudoscience
  • psychological warfare
  • public apology
  • public money
  • public opinion
  • public opinion analysts
  • public skepticism
  • publishing houses
  • Pudong
  • puffer fish
  • qi
  • Qi Baishi
  • Qiao Shi
  • Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd.
  • Qing Dynasty
  • Qing Quentin Huang
  • Qiu Xiaolong
  • quad tiltrotor
  • quantitative easing
  • Quotations from Chairman Mao
  • race
  • Ramada Plaza
  • RAND Corporation
  • rare earth elements
  • Raytheon
  • RCMP
  • re-education
  • re-education through labor
  • Reagan National Defense Forum
  • real estate prices
  • real-estate investments
  • real-name registration
  • Reaper
  • Rebiya Kadeer
  • reckless government spending
  • recklessness
  • reconciliation
  • recovery efforts
  • Red Cross Society of China
  • Red Guards
  • red restoration
  • Reed Bank
  • reeducation through labor
  • reform struggle
  • refurbished Soviet-era vessel
  • regional A2/AD alliance
  • regional security
  • regional security architecture
  • regional stability
  • regional status quo
  • Rei Mizuna
  • rejection of orthodoxy
  • relief effort
  • relief supplies
  • religious repression
  • Ren Zhiqiang
  • RenRen
  • replica
  • reporting
  • repression
  • repressive Web controls
  • reproductive health
  • repugnance
  • residency visa
  • resistance to China
  • resolution
  • resource scarcity
  • responsible state
  • restorative surgery
  • Reuters
  • Reuters Chinese website
  • reverse engineering
  • Revolution to Riches
  • rich Chinese offenders
  • rights activists
  • rising costs
  • rising labor costs
  • risk of conflict
  • rivalry
  • river pollution
  • river systems
  • rivers
  • Rob Hutton
  • Robert Ford
  • Robert Menendez
  • Rosneft
  • rotten apples
  • RQ-4 Global Hawk
  • rule of law
  • rumormongers
  • Rupert Murdoch
  • Russell Hsiao
  • Russia
  • Russian defense technology
  • ruthless tyranny
  • sabotage
  • Sakashima Islands
  • salami slicing
  • Salween
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  • Sam Wa Resources Holdings
  • Samsung
  • San Francisco Treaty
  • San Leandro
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  • Sarah Cook
  • SARS epidemic
  • satire
  • scam artists
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  • schoolgirl
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  • SCO
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  • sea row
  • Sears
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  • second island chain
  • Second Thomas Shoal
  • second-class citizens
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  • security balance
  • security codes
  • security diamond
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  • security strategy
  • security ties
  • self-castration
  • self-censorship
  • self-criticism
  • self-criticism sessions
  • self-immolation
  • self-immolation protests
  • Senkaku Islands
  • Sensitive Reconnaissance Operations
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • sewers
  • sex
  • sex classes
  • sex education
  • sex education courses
  • sex product industry
  • sex scandals
  • sex toys
  • sex workers
  • sexual contact
  • sexual revolution
  • shadow banking
  • Shai Oster
  • Shandong
  • Shanghai
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  • shao guan xian shi
  • shengnü
  • Shenyang
  • Shenzhou space capsule
  • Shi Tao
  • Shichung
  • Shinzo Abe
  • shipwrecks
  • short sellers
  • short-selling
  • shouting
  • show trials
  • shrinking leverage
  • Sichuan
  • Sierra Madre
  • silence
  • Silk Road Economic Belt
  • Silvercorp Metals
  • Sina Weibo
  • Sina Weibo tweets
  • Sino-American conflict
  • Sino-India relations
  • Sino-Indian border
  • Sino-Indian relations
  • Sino-Vietnamese War
  • Sinopec
  • Skynet
  • slaughterhouses
  • small-stick diplomacy
  • smear campaigns
  • smog
  • smog-related cancer
  • social dysfunction
  • social media
  • social media crackdown
  • social media monitoring
  • social morality
  • society
  • Socotra Rock
  • soft power
  • soft-power contest
  • soft-power failure
  • Sora Aoi
  • South China Mall
  • South China Sea ADIZ
  • South Korea
  • South-North Water Diversion project
  • South-to-North Diversion
  • Southeast Asia
  • Southeast Asian pressure
  • Southern European
  • sovereignty
  • space debris
  • space program
  • space science
  • Spain
  • Spain-China relations
  • Spain’s national court
  • spam attacks
  • Spanish court
  • Spanish criminal court
  • Spanish justice
  • Spanish National Court
  • spas
  • spearphishing
  • spending spree
  • spiritual civilization
  • spitter
  • spitting
  • spoiling of the negotiations
  • Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World
  • Spratly Islands
  • spurious claim
  • stability
  • Starbucks
  • Starbucks latte
  • state capitalism
  • state decadence
  • State Information Office
  • statism
  • Stella Shiu
  • Stephen Cassidy
  • Stephen M. Walt
  • Steven Schwankert
  • strategic bomber
  • strategic partnership
  • strategic quadrangle
  • strategy of harassment
  • street food
  • street vendor’s execution
  • struggle session
  • study sessions
  • Su Ling
  • Su-27
  • Su-33
  • Su-35
  • submarine
  • subpoena
  • substitute criminals
  • suburbia
  • suicide bombers
  • suicides
  • Sunday trading rules
  • superblock
  • Supertyphoon Haiyan
  • supply and demand
  • surrogacy agencies
  • surrogates
  • surveillance
  • surveillance cameras
  • surveillance systems
  • sustainable fishing practices
  • sustainable growth
  • sweeping crackdown on dissent
  • Swiss watchmakers
  • Symantec
  • symbolism
  • taboo
  • taboo topic
  • tailings pond
  • taiwan
  • Tang Shuangning
  • Tang Xiaoning
  • Tank Man
  • Taobao
  • taste for luxury
  • tax evasion
  • tax on second home
  • tea kettles
  • teenage romance
  • teenager
  • teenagers
  • telecom network equipment
  • televised confession
  • televised confessions
  • televised public pre-trial confessions
  • television drama series
  • terra nullius
  • territorial dispute
  • territorial sovereignty
  • territorial tensions
  • terrorism
  • terrorist funding
  • test of wills
  • testimony
  • Thailand
  • Thames Water
  • the final solution of the Chinese question
  • The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How Chinese Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets around the World
  • The Media Kowtow
  • The Network
  • The New York Times
  • The Plum in the Golden Vase
  • The Silent Contest
  • the Tibet House Foundation
  • The Vagina Monologues
  • theft of intellectual property
  • thefts
  • Theodore H. Moran
  • Third Plenum
  • Thomson Reuters
  • thorium
  • threats
  • Three Gorges Corporation
  • Thubten Wangchen
  • Ti-Anna Wang
  • Tiananmen Massacre
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Tiananmen Square attack
  • Tiananmen Square crash
  • Tianducheng
  • Tianjin
  • Tibet
  • Tibet Action Institute
  • Tibet flag
  • Tibet genocide case
  • Tibet Support Committee
  • Tibet's cultural dilution
  • Tibetan exile groups
  • Tibetan National Congress
  • Tibetan plateau
  • Tibetan Support Committee
  • Tibetans
  • Tiger Woman on Wall Street
  • time stamp
  • TiSA
  • toddler
  • Tom Clancy
  • Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
  • Tony Abbott
  • top schools
  • Toronto
  • torture
  • total fertility rate
  • totalitarian China
  • totalitarianism
  • tourism
  • toxic air pollution
  • toxic legacy
  • toxic smog
  • toxic substances
  • toy safety
  • TPP
  • trade balance
  • Trade in Services Agreement
  • tradition
  • traffic accident
  • train ride
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • Transparency International
  • trash
  • trashy habits
  • Treasury bonds
  • Treasury securities
  • Treaty of Westphalia
  • Trojan Horse
  • Trojan Moudoor
  • Trojan Naid
  • Trottergate
  • Trường Sa
  • tuhao
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Type 092 Xia-class nuclear powered submarine
  • Typhoon Fitow
  • Typhoon Haiyan
  • tyranny
  • U.N. hearing
  • U.N. resolutions
  • U.S. capitulation
  • U.S. cities
  • U.S. citizenship
  • U.S. congressional panel
  • U.S. Consulate in Chengdu
  • U.S. Director of National Intelligence
  • U.S. dominance
  • U.S. Embassy
  • U.S. fertility clinics
  • U.S. food safety protests
  • U.S. government debt
  • U.S. government shutdown
  • U.S. journalists
  • U.S. media firms
  • U.S. senators
  • U.S. Treasury
  • U.S. Treasury bonds
  • U.S. West Coast
  • U.S. women
  • U.S.-China Business Council
  • U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
  • U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission
  • U.S.-Japan Security Treaty
  • UAV
  • Uighur democracy movement
  • Uighurs
  • UK
  • UK infrastructure
  • UK Trade and Industry
  • Ukraine
  • Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
  • UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • UN Human Rights Council
  • UN human rights review
  • UN sanctions
  • unbridled materialism
  • uncivilized Chinese tourists
  • UNCLOS
  • underground organ sales
  • unemployment
  • unencrypted version
  • Unit 61398
  • united front
  • United Nations arbitration process
  • United Nations Human Rights Council
  • United Nations International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea
  • universal competence
  • universal jurisdiction
  • universal justice principle
  • Universal Periodic Review
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab
  • unmanned arms race
  • unpaid meals
  • unreasonable expansionism
  • unruly behaviour
  • unsophisticated marketing
  • urban management officials
  • urbanism
  • urbanization
  • urinating in swimming pools
  • Urumqi
  • US
  • US anti-terrorism laws
  • US Congress
  • US Food and Drug Administration
  • US government debt
  • US government intelligence adviser
  • US journalists
  • US military preeminence
  • US think-tank
  • US Treasurys
  • US war with China
  • US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
  • US-Japan Security Treaty
  • USA
  • Usmen Hasan
  • USS George Washington
  • Uyghur Human Rights Project
  • Uyghurs
  • Uzi Shaya
  • Vancouver
  • Venice Film Festival
  • very troublesome human rights record
  • veteran Beijing protester
  • vice-mayor
  • video
  • video surveillance technologies
  • vietnam
  • Vietnam’s Communist Party
  • Vietnamese brides
  • Vietnamese-Indian summit
  • villainess
  • Vincent Wu
  • vineyards
  • virginity
  • virgins’ blood
  • visa regulations
  • visa rules
  • visa terrorism
  • vital waterways
  • Voho
  • Voltaire Gazmin
  • wage increases
  • Walk Free Foundation
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Walter Slocombe
  • Wanda
  • Wang Bingzhang
  • Wang Gongquan
  • Wang Hun
  • Wang Jianlin
  • Wang Keping
  • Wang Lijun
  • Wang Xiuying
  • Wang Zhiwen
  • Wangluo
  • war
  • war crimes
  • war games
  • Warner Technology and Investment Corp.
  • warp-speed engine
  • Washington D.C.
  • Washington Post
  • Washington’s muddled response
  • wasting food
  • water
  • water shortages
  • water supply
  • water usage
  • wave of repression
  • wealth migrations
  • wealthy Chinese
  • Web censorship
  • WeChat
  • wedge politics
  • weibo
  • Wellesley College
  • Wen Jiabao
  • Wen Jiabao family empire
  • Wen Ruchun
  • Wen Yunsong
  • Wenchuan quake
  • Wenzhou
  • West Philippine Sea
  • Western businesses
  • western constitutional ­democracy
  • Western culture
  • Western media
  • Western monikers
  • Western news organizations
  • White House
  • Wikimania
  • Wikipedia China
  • Wing Loong
  • wireless network
  • Witherspoon Institute
  • work ethos
  • working-age population
  • World Uyghur Congress
  • world waters
  • world's biggest building
  • world’s leading executioner
  • world’s leading superpower
  • worsening cycle of repression
  • worst online oppressors
  • WTO
  • Wu Dong
  • wumao
  • Wyeth
  • Wyndham Hotel Group
  • Xi Jinping
  • Xi Jinping's family wealth
  • Xia Junfeng
  • Xia Yeliang
  • Xiahe
  • xiaojie
  • xiaosan
  • Ximen Qing
  • Xinhua
  • Xinjiang
  • Xinjiang independence
  • Xinjiang mosque
  • Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
  • Xu Beihong
  • Xu Ming
  • Xu Qiya
  • Xu Zhiyong
  • Xue Manzi
  • Yahoo
  • Yamazaki Mazak
  • Yang Jisheng
  • Yang Luchuan
  • Yang Zhong
  • Yangzhong
  • Yantian
  • young love
  • Yu Hua
  • Yu Jianming
  • Yunnan
  • Yunnan Tin
  • Yuyao
  • Zambia
  • zaolian
  • Zhang Daqian
  • Zhang Shuguang
  • Zhang Xixi
  • Zhang Xuezhong
  • Zhang Yuhong
  • Zhejiang
  • Zhen Huan
  • Zheng He
  • Zhu Jianrong
  • Zhu Ruifeng
  • Zhu Xingliang
  • Zipingpu dam
  • Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science Technology Co.
  • Zubr landing craft
  • 人艰不拆
  • 喜大普奔
  • 成语
  • 温如春
  • 茉莉花革命
  • 金瓶梅

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2013 (499)
    • ►  December (79)
    • ▼  November (181)
      • The Art of Self-Censorship
      • Low Profile
      • Paper Dragon
      • China, India spar over disputed border
      • Face-off
      • Isolation Under House Arrest for Wife of Imprisone...
      • With new air zone, China tests U.S. dominance in E...
      • With air-defence overreach, China has proven itsel...
      • Seoul Sees Territory Threat in China Defense Zone
      • Questions raised over ‘China fever’ development on...
      • Britain goes soft on rights to woo China
      • China looks to redraw Asian airspace
      • China's Latest Territorial Moves Renew Fears In Ph...
      • Cultural revolution taking place in China's bedrooms
      • Enforcing rules in air zone will stretch China's a...
      • China has thrown down a gauntlet to America
      • Spying beyond the façade
      • Paper Dragon: Beijing Draws Online Ridicule Over A...
      • Tony Abbott refuses to back down over China comments
      • China’s Move Puts Airspace in Spotlight
      • Air Defence Farce
      • With Glut of Lonely Men, China Has an Approved Out...
      • China's presence looms amid massive U.S.-Japanese ...
      • China, Australia spat over Air Defence Identificat...
      • Japan, South Korean military planes defy China's n...
      • Getting Senkaku History Right
      • Paper Tiger
      • Flight of the B-52s
      • China overplayed its hand on the Senkaku islands
      • China Qualifies Air-Zone Threats After U.S. Challenge
      • Beijing plays a longer game with its air defence z...
      • U.S. affirms support for Japan in island dispute w...
      • China’s Airspace Claim Inflames Ties to South Kore...
      • China's behavior has been unsettling to neighbors:...
      • Airspace Claim Forces Obama to Flesh Out China Str...
      • Obama Sends B-52s, and a Message, to China
      • U.S. Directly Challenges China's Air Defense Zone
      • Australia expresses concern over China air defence...
      • All-Out Intimidation
      • Japan Answers China’s Warnings Over Islands’ Airspace
      • US sends B-52 over China-claimed waters
      • Japanese Airlines Defy China Demand for Data in Ai...
      • China’s Restriction on Airspace Over Disputed Isle...
      • The Chinese Communist Party’s Biggest Obstacle Is ...
      • China's rich fleeing the country—with their fortunes
      • China's Favorite Villainess
      • China must rescind its air zone over disputed islands
      • Europe's role in East Asian islands dispute
      • American think tank envisages blockading China wit...
      • Vietnam’s Confucius Institute Distraction
      • No China Release for A Touch of Sin, Director Bann...
      • Airpocalypse: U.S. Embassy Stocks Up on Air Purifiers
      • The Globalisation of Anti-Chinese Sentiment
      • The Long Shadow of Chinese Blacklists on American ...
      • Former Top Aide Warns China Not To Interfere With ...
      • Court ruling on Tibet raises concerns over Spain-C...
      • U.S., Japan slam China's destabilizing move on Eas...
      • Google could end China's web censorship in 10 days...
      • How Google Could End Web Censorship In China In Tw...
      • Spanish Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Ex-Chines...
      • China demands clarity on Spanish Jiang Zemin arres...
      • Spanish court orders arrest of former Chinese Pres...
      • China creates air defence zone over Japanese islands
      • China bolsters East China Sea claim, warns of 'def...
      • Why Would Russia Sell China Su-35 Fighter Jets?
      • China's Great Firewall : Activists Find New Ways A...
      • Dalai Lama Defends Tibet Flag at Meeting with Japa...
      • Exposing China's cyber espionage campaign hasn't l...
      • Japan Seeks Friends in Asia—but Not China
      • Chinese Propaganda Expands from Washington Post to...
      • What's at Stake in Bloomberg's China Coverage
      • China to Foreign Media: Get in Line or Get Out
      • China’s Bribery Culture Poses Risks for Multinatio...
      • China 'Challenging US Military Preeminence in Asia'
      • Why Taiwan’s Allies are Flocking to Beijing
      • Spanish court orders arrest of Chinese leaders inc...
      • What Will It Cost to Cover China?
      • China Central TV: champion of the people with a bl...
      • China's Illegal Fishing Expeditions Threaten World...
      • China is not ending its human rights abuses
      • Another Animated Take on Bloomberg News
      • An Old Chinese Novel Is Racy Reading Still
      • China and Japan are heading for a collision
      • Spain Has Indicted Hu Jintao Over Tibet
      • Japa Looks for Asian Allies to Say No to China
      • Kyrgyz workers query Chinese influx
      • The Transparent Chinese
      • China's One-Child Change Doesn't Avert Demographic...
      • Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on ...
      • Chinese leaders control media, academics to shape ...
      • How LINE Censors Users in China (and How to Get Ar...
      • Chinese male model Liang Chao uses fake photos to ...
      • China may long regret miserly typhoon aid offer
      • Discussions of Wen Jiabao's daughter censored in C...
      • China Nuclear Missile Submarine Threat is Not Cred...
      • Israel files to quash testimony in Bank of China a...
      • JPMorgan and the Wen Family
      • Bloomberg boots ‘China leak’ scribe
      • Wall Street Journal and Reuters’ Chinese sites blo...
      • Chinese e-commerce site draws anger for global sal...
    • ►  October (178)
    • ►  September (61)
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