Jeremy Goldkorn worked in China for 20 years as an editor and entrepreneur. He is editor-in-chief of The China Project, and co-founder of the Sinica Podcast.
China is America’s “greatest geopolitical and geoeconomic challenge” according to the Senate, which passed a bill to spend more than $250 billion to ensure that the U.S.A. stays on top. But will it work?
United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen met China’s top America-whisperer, Liu He, over a cordial “introductory virtual meeting.”
The government wants China’s rural residents, entrepreneurs, and property owners to innovate and alleviate poverty, and it’s telling the banks to start writing checks.
It is not clear exactly why the Chinese government is accusing the writer Yang Hengjun of espionage, and we probably won’t learn much more from his trial next week.
China is continuing its ongoing restriction of cryptocurrency business and two recent announcements have added to global worries about the value of virtual money. But China’s cryptoheads are unlikely to change their plans.
Some of Hong Kong’s most senior and prominent pro-democracy leaders have been given jail time or suspended sentences for their participation in demonstrations or on national security law offenses. Beijing is getting real.
Beijing has formalized new election rules for Hong Kong that cut in half the number of directly elected seats in LegCo, the city's parliament, and require all candidates to be vetted for their loyalty to Beijing by a committee.
The BBC’s TV news broadcasts have never been available to ordinary Chinese households, but you could watch them via satellite in five-star hotels and luxury apartment complexes. No longer.
The WHO went to Wuhan, and Beijing is happy.