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.
Photo credit: Caixin. The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus-caused disease, named COVID-19ย yesterday by the World Health Organization, continues to increase. The current...
Matthew Chitwood, a researcher of rural issues in China and occasional The China Project contributor, has written in the American Interestย about his experience taking a...
The illness caused by the strain of coronavirus that continues to spread across China and the world now has a World Health Organizationโdesignated name: COVID-19...
Mischief Reef, one of several islands near the Philippines that it claims, but which China occupies. The U.S. has conducted several freedom of navigation operations...
Xรญ Jรฌnpรญng ไน ่ฟๅนณ teleconferences with frontline health workers. Source: Xinhua News Agency. After weeks of a worsening coronavirus epidemic, which has now infected over 42,000...
As we notedย earlier this week, the โunforeseeableย eventโ of the coronavirus may be citedย by China as a reason to call off some of its commitments in...
Wuhan, and all of China, continue to react to the death of a man who was earlier silenced for trying to warn about the coming epidemic.
Over 27,000 have been infected with 2019-nCoV, according to official numbers, and 564 have been reported dead. All but 15 reported deaths have been in...
Xรญ Jรฌnpรญng ไน ่ฟๅนณ made his first public appearance in eight days to welcome Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to Beijing. ย Today, Chinese leader Xรญ...