Nadya Yeh is a Senior Editor at The China Project. Nadya got her Master’s degree at the Global Thought program at Columbia University and her Bachelor’s at Williams College. She has previously done research at the China Institute.
After months of speculation about a call between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the two leaders finally talked today. The conversation was moral support for Ukraine, but Xi gave no indication that China’s tacit support for Putin would change.
Polar sea ice is melting at an unprecedented rate, potentially freeing up access to faster shipping routes and vast natural resources in the Arctic. China has its eyes on those lucrative opportunities through Russia.
China and Russia lauded the strength of their military cooperation this past week. But whether or not Beijing will offer military aid to Moscow in its war on Ukraine hinges on whether it serves China’s interests.
China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran are losing trust in the Taliban’s ability to stop the expansion of militant groups in Afghanistan. For Beijing, its biggest fear is that instability will spill over into Xinjiang.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, is in China. But China and the world have changed a lot in the decade since he last held office.
Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi have been handed 14-year and 12-year prison sentences on sedition charges, as the space for political dissent gets smaller and smaller under Xi Jinping.
As expected, not much came out of the highly-anticipated meeting between the leaders of China, France, and the EU in Beijing today. But France did walk away with some lucrative business deals.
A trip to China by Malaysia’s new prime minister may bear a lot of economic fruit, but Kuala Lumpur will have to navigate Beijing’s growing tensions with the U.S. and shared territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
China and Japan are talking again, but relations will probably deteriorate over Beijing’s growing military presence in disputed territories, Tokyo’s crackdown on advanced chipmaking gear, and a detained Japanese businessman.