For the past three years a crack group of devoted students from Georgetown University have been brewing up a homework project for the ages, drawing attention from Congress and top officials in the Pentagon. Their assignment has turned heads due to its provocative conclusion that China's nuclear arsenal could be many times bigger than previous well-established estimates of arms-control experts. more ›

CHRD has provided us with this map of the confirmed individuals that have been either detained or disappeared since February. 26 have been criminally detained (meaning legally charged with something), 30 have disappeared, and over 200 placed under soft detention. more ›

The purpose of China Strikes is to track strikes, protests and other collective actions by Chinese workers to defend their rights and interests. I hope that over time the site will serve as a resource to those wishing to better understand and support the labor movement in China.

It's a very significant day in science for China: the first genetic map of the Han Chinese has been published by the American Journal of Human Genetics. The study was conducted at the Genome Institue of Singapore, and draws from 8,200 DNA samples from ethnically Han Chinese all over China and in Singapore. more ›