Trade war, day 13: U.S. gives China cold shoulder at G20 as trade relations freeze over
Nearly two weeks since the first round of $34 billion tit-for-tat tariffs went into effectย (Access paywall), the U.S. and China seem to both be waiting...
Lucy Best
Lucy Best is a Senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill majoring in Political Science and Chinese and minoring in Environmental Science. She spent summer 2017 in Guangzhou researching community participation in Healthy Cities programming and spent fall 2017 in Kunming studying abroad.
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China gives โsewage surveillanceโ a shot as part of its own war on drugs
A recent Scientific American articleย details Chinaโs use of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) โ the process of chemically analyzing sewage water for specific substances โ in its...
Chinaโs continued food and drug quality problems
As Chinese products gain prominence and are integrated into the global supply chain, quality assurances for products from the country have come under new scrutiny...
Reports confirm ozone-killing substance in Chinese factories
A new report from the Environmental Investigation Agency, a UK-based nonprofit, has confirmed the concerns of experts that a buildup of the banned substance CFC-11...
Air pollution: Two steps backward, one step forward
With seemingly contradictory headlines appearing on the same day, recent events are representative of Chinaโs mixed record on climate issues: China recently scaled back a...
Xiongโan: A waste of resources or urban planningโs future?
With Chinaโs mixed record and lengthy history of urban planning experiments, domestic and international observers alike have expectedly waited for developments from the city of...
$9 billion spent on surveillance tech in Xinjiang in 2017
Evidence of a vast system of โre-education campsโ in Xinjiang ย is growing even as the Chinese government continues to deny their existence. The camps are...
China plans to open third-gen nuclear reactor in November
We recently noted a Greenpeace reportย that suggested Chinese economic growth, unless radical measures are taken, is going to wreck the planetโs climate. Hereโs the latest...
Propaganda and finger vein recognition: Chinaโs 2018 college entrance exams
The gaokaoย (้ซ่ gฤokaฬo) is a three-day college entrance test that covers literature, science, math, and English (see The China Projectโs brief history of the exam)...
Mattis signals U.S. will challenge Beijing in South China Sea
The usually mild-mannered U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had strong words for Beijingย in response to a recent confrontation in the South China Sea, as reported...