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.
Sporadic, but persistent, outbreaks of the coronavirus are becoming Chinaโs new normal. As the country largely returns to work โ business resumption is around 86%...
For the second time in a week, President Trump expressed a willingness to walk away from his phase one trade dealย with China if purchase commitments...
Today, Chinaโs State Council unveiled a new set of guidelinesย (in Chinese)ย for reopening higher-risk public locations such as tourist attractions and movie theaters. In short, they...
Beijing makes little distinction between pro-democracy activists and โblack-clad thugsโ who cause violence.
When China gave its bleakest-ever data release on quarterly GDP numbers last month, we notedย that some commentators called it โrefreshingly honest.โ There is a possibility...
As Facebookโs planned payment system, Libra, flounders, China has become the first country to test an official digital currency that could make such financial transactions faster and easier in the future. But when will it actually launch?
If U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo really does have โenormous evidenceโ that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, he has not shared it with any of Americaโs closest allies, including Britain and Australia.
Last week, Beijing announced that it would hold its annual legislative session, the National Peopleโs Congress (NPC) session, on May 22 โ about two and...
The rhetorical climbdown from the U.S. and China that we noted in late Marchย was never going to last long, and indeed, American politicians other than...