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.
When news emerged in early April that Africans residents in the city of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province were facing a wave of discrimination and even evictionsย because...
The charitable way to interpret this is that Pompeo got โconfusedโ about the position of U.S. intelligence agencies. Another way to interpret it is that he was deliberately spreading misinformation about the nature of the virus.
Australia-China relations hit a new low following Australiaโs refusal to drop its calls for a probe into the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak. The Chinese...
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...
Today, Beijing announced that it would hold its annual National Peopleโs Congress (NPC) session on May 22, about two and a half months delayed from...
The Chinese ambassador to Australia, Chรฉng Jรฌngyรจ ๆ็ซไธ, in an interview published by the Australian Financial Review on April 26, suggested that Chinese tourists, students, and consumers may boycott Australia if Morrisonโs government continued to pursue the โdangerousโ idea of an international inquiry.
As China appears increasingly confident in its containment of COVID-19 within its borders, Beijing is taking further steps to try to control the narrative of...
On April 26, three months and three days after Wuhan entered an unprecedented lockdownย to deal with tens of thousands of cases of a rapidly spreading...
โThe Peopleโs Bank of China [PBOC] will become the first central bank to launch its own digital currencyโ