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.
A day after Joe Biden had an apparently amicable phone call with Xi Jinping, the Biden administration was reported to be considering multiple moves that would strain U.S.-China relations.
As Chinese regulators take aim at tax avoidance, toxic fans, and โincorrectโ political views among celebrities, some with dual nationalities are renouncing their foreign citizenship.
Did Xi Jinping launch a war on wealth earlier this month when he complained of some peopleโs โexcessively high incomesโ and demanded measures to reduce inequality? โNo,โ say various experts with official ties, who say the government is not planning to rob the rich.
The U.S. issued nearly 34,000 F1 visas in June for Chinese students, about the same level as 2019. Itโs not yet clear if the total number of Chinese students for the fall semester will be higher or lower than before the pandemic.
Chinaโs health authorities are sticking with their strict playbook to contain and eliminate outbreaks of COVID-19. After over 1,200 were infected since July 20 in a Delta-driven spike, zero local infections were again officially reported for August 22.
Chinaโs State Administration for Market Regulation published a set of draft regulations on internet companies that was remarkable for its detailed list of prohibited behaviors.
Beijing is happy to bash any failure of U.S. foreign policy, as it has in Afghanistan. But the rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban, an organization that China does not fully trust, risks heightening security concerns for Chinese interests in the region.
Chinaโs State Council and the Chinese Communist Partyโs Central Committee released a document that confirms what was already pretty clear: Beijing intends to continue strengthening regulation on a wide range of sectors of the economy for years to come.
In response to Lithuania establishing a โTaiwanese representative office,โ China said it would withdraw its envoy to Vilnius, and demanded the Baltic nation recall its ambassador in Beijing. It was not the first time this year that the small EU member state had upset Beijing.