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.
Filling yet another void in global leadership left by President Trump, China said that it had joined COVAX, the World Health Organizationโbacked program to fund and coordinate the equitable global distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine.
With less than four weeks until the election, Trump is again ramping up his efforts to blame China for his failure to contain the coronavirus. Polls indicate that voters will not buy this.
Diplomats at the UN delivered another round of dueling joint statements on Chinaโs Xinjiang policies this week. The group of 39 countries criticizing Beijing was the largest yet, and Turkey separately raised concerns over human rights.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with his Japanese, Indian, and Australian counterparts in Tokyo today and urged the four countries to build a โtrue security frameworkโ to โcounter the challenge that the Chinese Communist Party presents.โ
The U.S. government announced on October 2 that no Communist Party memberย can immigrate to the United States. The move is the latest in a series of gestures of distrustย toward Beijing by the Trump administration.
China has already vaccinated vast numbers of essential workers and state-owned enterprise employees without a conventional clinical trial process. As soon as this month, however, Beijing may give official approval to a clinically tested vaccine, and begin public rollout in November.
China is marking its first major holiday since suppressing the coronavirus: Golden Week, kicked off by National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival, which also fell on October 1 this year. How will tourist spending stack up to last year?
China could pursue an antitrust investigation into Googleโs use of its Android operating system as soon as October, according to Reuters. The move would come after the Trump administrationโs attacks on TikTok, WeChat, Huawei, and SMIC.
Weibo owner Sina and search firm Sogou have announced they will go private and leave the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange, respectively. They are joining a collection of Chinese companies determined to rely less on U.S. markets as political tensions rise.