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08 May 2012

IBTimes News reports on AlJazeera's closure of its English-language bureau in Beijing after Chinese authorities expelled its correspondent Melissa Chan and failed to grant visas to other journalists. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC) said it was “appalled” by Beijing's actions, calling the refusal to grant Chan a new visa a “grave threat to foreign reporters' ability to work in China”. “This is the most extreme example of a recent pattern of using journalist visas in an attempt to censor and intimidate foreign correspondents in China,” the organisation said in a statement.

29 Apr 2012

A senior US diplomat arrives in China, just days before a major visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, amid allegations that the US is harbouring escaped Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng.

22 Apr 2012

The Associated Press reports on India's successful launch of a long rage surface-to-surface Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads capable of hitting Beijing and Shanghai in China. However, some in the region fear that the Agni-V test could fuel a new regional arms race.

17 Apr 2012

CNN-IBN reports on China's attempt to legitimize its control over Akasi Chin in Ladakh. Reports from Beijing sat it has asked Korean and Japanese companies to build an astronomical observatory in Aksai Chin or Tibet.

07 Apr 2012

CNN's Anna Coren talks to artist-activist Ai Weiwei about his ongoing house arrest in China and how he turned cameras on himself. As a commentary on the constant surveillance Weiwei has been under, Weiweicam was set up as a 24-hour live webcam feed from inside his house.

31 Mar 2012

Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports on the secretive world of high level Communist Party decision making and the recent disappearance of Bo Xilai, the fired Secretary of Chongqing municipality.

29 Mar 2012

NBC News' Adrienne Mong reports on Tibetan protesters in Tibet who demanding an end to what they say is relentless repression by Beijing. This video includes rare footage of monks demonstrating in Qinghai Province.

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