Arran Hope is a New York-based writer and recent MA graduate in East Asian Studies at Columbia University, where he focused on China’s political economy and modern history. He previously studied at the University of Cambridge where he read Chinese Studies and Japanese.
TikTok’s potential death throes in DC were live streamed across the world last week, but China’s domestic short video platform ecosystem is in rude health, buffed up by live streaming ecommerce.
Weijian Shan is a longtime China investor based in Hong Kong. We discussed his recent book about taking control and turning around a Chinese bank.
In February, the chairman and CEO of investment bank China Renaissance disappeared. Ten days later, his firm disclosed that he was cooperating in an official investigation into a former colleague. Bao Fan was not the first and won’t be the last executive that mysteriously disappears in China. These are some of the recent high-profile cases of executives who have been detained incommunicado by security agents.
On February 17, Intelligence Squared hosted a debate. The question was: should the U.S. ban Tiktok? Our reporter was there to question both speakers. Here’s what he found out.
Cost concerns, U.S. technology export controls, and Chinese government censorship are just some of the factors that will determine the fate of China's own fleet of chatbots to rival ChatGPT.
China’s chip industry has been juiced by funding from the government and jinxed by U.S. export curbs on advanced equipment. But the century of chip rivalry has just started. These are ten Chinese semiconductor firms to look out for and three that went down in flames.
Pinduoduo is China’s king of low cost ecommerce. Four months ago it launched Temu, a similar service for the American market. How sustainable is the new startup?