Lizzi C. Lee is an economist turned journalist. She graduated from MIT’s PhD program in Economics prior to joining the New York-based independent Chinese media outlet Wall St TV.
Taisu Zhang is a professor of law at Yale University, known for his recent work on the expansion of the Chinese administrative state down to the subdistrict and neighborhood level along with Beijing's shift from “performance legitimacy” as the foundation of political rule, and more toward legality.
Dr. Jamie Gaida is a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) specializing in statistics, research ethics, data science, computer algorithms, software development, and machine learning. He recently published a piece on The Critical Technology Tracker and how Western democracies are losing the global technological competition.
Benjamin Qiu is a partner with the law firm Loeb & Loeb handling venture capital financing for Chinese companies and others. He is also a registered arbitrator with the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration. He recently wrote for Nikkei Asian Review on China's anti-corruption agency, now having its financial sector in sight.
Jaap Grolleman shares his insights from living in China over the past four and a half years.
Kristy Bryant, a doctoral candidate in China studies at the University of Oxford, digs deeper into China’s “neutral” stance on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
China scholar Abbey Heffer spends her time breaking down Chinese authoritarianism on social media. This is what she had to say about her projects, and about China’s local experimentation under Xi.
Tu Le, managing director of Sino Adult Insights, talks about the rise of the Chinese EV industry, BYD's glowing success, and EV trends to watch out for in 2023.
China has rolled out a slew of policies to boost its shrinking population. Yun Zhou, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Department of Sociology, talks about the issues behind the demographic crisis, but also warns of the policies’ impacts on gender inequality and what might come next.
Diana Choyleva, the chief economist at Enodo Economics, talks about Xi’s COVID zero U-Turn and what it might mean for China's economic recovery in a post-pandemic world.