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.
One of Chinaโs formerly high-flying global conglomerates is crashing. After three units of the company revealed massive embezzlement, hundreds of firms linked to HNA are now expected to follow it into bankruptcy restructuring.
The U.K. expects around 300,000 Hongkongers to apply, over the next five years, for a new visa for those with British National Overseas (BNO) status. Beijing retaliated by saying it would not recognize BNO passports, but this appears to be an entirely symbolic gesture.
China is not eager to appear friendly with the U.S., despite the change of leadership in Washington.
The $23 billion annual trade between New Zealand and China could soon be nearly entirely tariff-free, thanks to an upgrade in the two countriesโ 2008 free trade agreement.
During the first weekend of the Biden administration, China sent dozens of warplanes into the Taiwan Strait, prompting the U.S. State Department to issue a statement blaming Beijing for tensions and reaffirming American commitments to Taiwan.
After Chen Gang, a prominent professor of nanotechnology at MIT, was arrested for failing to disclose China ties and funding, roughly 100 of his fellow faculty members signed a letter objecting to the criminal complaints against him.
Chinese state media, and even some of Chinaโs top scientists, are promoting messages to undermine confidence in non-Chinese vaccines. At the same time, Beijing is again spreading conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19.
The declaration by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was undermined by his tweet, a few hours earlier, condemning โmulticulturalismโ in the U.S.
Nearly a quarter million American jobs have been lost because of increased U.S.-China tariffs under the Trump administration, according to a new study by Oxford Economics. The trade deal a year ago kept almost all these tariffs in place.