Editor's note: The article is an excerpt of the Evaluation Report on the Security Situation in Surrounding Areas of China (2016), issued by the National Institute of International Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
During my trip to a coal-producing province, I found that officials at a road checkpoint played cards and the loser paid by working extra hours instead of handing over money. Before 2012 it was just the opposite - they quarreled with each other in order to work extra hours.
The surprising thing now is not that the Chinese economy is slowing, but that there are so many who seem surprised by this.
China's diplomacy displayed more global vision in 2015 than ever before.
Agreement reached to speed up deliveries of humanitarian aid to besieged communities
A prison riot that left 49 inmates hacked, beaten or burned to death opened searing questions about gang rule, extortion and human rights violations in Mexico's overcrowded prisons, where people merely awaiting trial are mixed in with some of the world's most hardened killers.
In a dramatic response to Europe's gravest refugee crisis since World War II, NATO ordered three warships to sail immediately on Thursday to the Aegean Sea to help end the deadly smuggling of asylum-seekers across the waters from Turkey to Greece.
With the FBI tightening its ring around them, the last four holdouts in the armed takeover of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered on Thursday, ending a 41-day standoff that left one man dead and exposed simmering anger over the government's control of vast expanses of Western land.
A newly-hired police officer who shot an unarmed man dead in a darkened public housing stairwell was convicted on Thursday of manslaughter in a case closely watched by advocates for police accountability.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea decided on Thursday to shut down a jointly run factory park with the Republic of Korea just a day after Seoul's announcement to stop operations at the industrial zone in the DPRK border city of Kaesong.
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