Jonathan Landreth is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor who started reporting from China in 1997.
Rayhan Asat comments on China’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Muslim world’s silence on ongoing rights abuses against Uyghurs in China, and the responsibility of the Chinese diaspora in advocating for human rights.
Baloch nationalists and the Taliban are among the militants making China’s Belt and Road rocky.
Mu Chen is the chairman, founder, and co-editor of BigOne Lab, a.k.a. Baiguan, a data provider that aims ”to power investment research on Chinese companies” at a time when Beijing has made it tough for outsiders to access official data of all kinds.
China’s Mission to the UN circulated a letter to diplomats in New York discouraging attendance at an event marking the first anniversary of a UN report saying China’s treatment of the Uyghurs may constitute “crimes against humanity.”
Ian Johnson’s journalism gives voice to ordinary Chinese people from all walks of life — the outcasts, the faithful, and, in the case of his latest book, the public intellectuals and storytellers recording the history that Beijing’s official censors are trying to erase.
Manoj Kewalramani is an Indian researcher whose interpretations of the People’s Daily, the flagship propaganda broadsheet of the Chinese Communist Party, provide a daily guide to how China leaders are thinking. He is also one of the most perspicacious observers of India-China relations.
The Sichuan-born writer and street musician who spent four years in prison for “Massacre,” his poem about Tiananmen Square in 1989, talked to fellow author Ian Johnson about exile in Germany and his plan to print dictators’ faces on toilet paper.
He moved from civil war torn Sierra Leone to Beijing where he graduated with degrees in IT and management. Now he’s the face of one of the biggest sports TV broadcasters in Africa, and it’s a Chinese company.
This is a conversation with Ma Jun, author of China’s Water Crisis and founder of a leading non-governmental organization whose interactive Blue Map app has armed 3.8 million Chinese citizens with easy-to-interpret air- and water-pollution data to name and shame polluters. More amazingly, Ma has collaborated with multiple provincial governments that see the value of transparency.