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.
Jennifer Bouey, an epidemiologist and the chair of the Department of International Health at Georgetown University, discusses the incoming wave of COVID infections that could strain China’s healthcare system and endanger the elderly.
Xifan Yang, a China correspondent for Die Zeit, discusses the relief, but also the widespread anxieties over the tsunami of COVID infections that will inevitably hit China.
James Zimmerman, a partner in the Beijing office of Perkins Coie, talks about China's U-turn on its COVID zero policy, and what to expect next.
Lynette Ong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, discusses how the recent anti-COVID-zero protests shook up Beijing’s ‘weiwen’ system of maintaining stability.
Freelance journalist Simon Leplâtre, who is based in Shanghai, talks about the brewing frustrations that erupted into anti-COVID-zero protests this past weekend.
Professor William Hurst of Cambridge University discusses the recent protests against COVID zero that have mushroomed up all over China, and how Xi Jinping might react.
Dan Mattingly, an assistant professor of political science at Yale, draws from data on the PLA’s military appointments to analyze how China picks commanding officers to counter domestic and foreign threats.
Author Alex Joske talks about the great lengths to which the CCP’s long-reaching security arm manipulates the West’s attitudes about China.
Emily Jin, research assistant at the Center for New American Security, discusses China’s alternatives to the U.S.’s CHIPS and SWIFT payment systems.