Lucas Niewenhuis is the Newsletter Editor at The China Project. Previously, he has researched China-Africa relations at the Social Science Research Council, interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, and studied Chinese language and culture in Shanghai and Beijing.
Whether in response to a state directive or as a pre-emptive move to avoid public outrage, Chinese streaming services have taken to blurring foreign brands that refused to use Xinjiang cotton. Where do nationalistic consumer boycotts go from here?
After the Trump administration beefed up U.S.-Taiwan ties, the Biden administration has continued to more actively embrace Taiwan. Some figures in foreign policy are calling for unambiguous support for Taiwan, but others say that a significant change from โstrategic ambiguity" could trigger a Chinese invasion.
The U.S. and China continue to express mutual distrust or even disdain on many issues today, but tackling climate change could be an area of healthy competition, or even policy coordination.
China and the Philippines are engaged in a diplomatic feud after hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels, which the Philippines called an unofficial โmaritime militia,โ anchored around a disputed reef.
Facebook employees are raising concerns about the Chinese governmentโs use of ad money to promote propaganda about happy Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the Wall Street Journal reports. Might Facebook eventually follow Twitter in restricting political advertisements in response?
Contracts for Chinese overseas lending tend to have โunusually broad confidentiality clausesโ and require priority repayment to lenders, a new study has found. The strings attached to Chinaโs loans complicate international debt negotiations during the pandemic.
After the WHO released a report that raised more questions than answers about the origins of COVID-19, Beijing pushed back against accusations that it had interfered in the inquiry. The Chinese Foreign Ministry then suggested that the Fort Detrick biological lab in the U.S. should be investigated next.
China will reportedly receive a steady supply of oil from Iran in exchange for large multi-sector investments in the Iranian economy. The deal is the latest move by Beijing to increase its influence in the Middle East.
After the U.K. joined the EU, U.S., and Canada early this week in coordinated sanctions and condemnation over Chinaโs abuses in Xinjiang, Beijing issued counter-sanctions on nine British individuals and four entities.