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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lit a fire under China’s transition to green energy
While Beijing returned to coal to mitigate short term tight supplies and fluctuating energy prices, the conflict in Europe drove China toward a long-term commitment to self-sustaining renewables.
China invites the world to join its mission to explore the Moon
China is now accepting bids to join Chang’e-8 (CE-8), the country’s lunar exploration mission. It’s both space diplomacy and China’s latest push to become a leading space power at a time when countries are racing to land on the Moon.
Lessons from the black box of Chinese politics
We know almost nothing about how the senior leadership of the Communist Party makes decisions, but that does not stop wild speculation in the media about factional fighting and even attempts to overthrow Xi Jinping. Scholar Wu Guoguang lays out how we should think about the information vacuum, translated and introduced by the eminent Sinologist Geremie R. Barmé.
China brings Syria back on to the world stage with a red carpet welcome
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad just returned from a visit to China, where Xi Jinping pledged to assist in rebuilding Syria’s economy and called on the West to lift sanctions on Syria while Assad defended Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang.
‘Ill-gotten gains’ — Phrase of the Week
China’s latest food safety scandal is about companies profiting from unhealthy ready-made meals in schools. And there’s a phrase for that.
‘The Chinese want to make sure Taiwan’s pilots are stressed out’
The latest military exercises and gray-zone warfare around Taiwan come at a time of high political importance for China, the U.S., and Taiwan, and Beijing is not messing around.
Understanding Beijing’s data lockdown: Q&A with Mu Chen of Baiguan
Mu Chen is the chairman, founder, and co-editor of BigOne Lab, a.k.a. Baiguan, a data provider that aims ”to power investment research on Chinese companies” at a time when Beijing has made it tough for outsiders to access official data of all kinds.
Azerbaijan and China have many mutual interests, but Baku isn’t completely aligned with Beijing
Azerbaijan, located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia, has growing trade and political ties to China but the Transcaucasian nation isn’t going all-in on the Belt and Road.
Taiwan’s opposition candidate outlines tougher new strategy against China
Hou Yu-ih, the Kuomintang candidate for president of the Republic of China, visited the U.S., where he signaled a tougher line on China than his party has previously taken with his 3D Strategy: The first “D” stands for “deterrence.”
Zoe Liu on sovereign funds and how the Chinese government makes strategic investments
Deploying sovereign wealth on behalf of state power has been one of the keys to China’s global rise. Zongyuan Zoe Liu’s comprehensive analysis of the evolution of China’s sovereign funds shows how China has doubled down on financial statecraft and become a global financier of surprising ambition.
This week on TikTok: Hong Kong’s crypto dreams and Syria’s turn to China
Want more like this? Subscribe to The China Project’s official TikTok channel, The China Project, where Susan St.Denis explains complex topics about China clearly and simply in TikTok’s fast-evolving visual and verbal language.
Assad arrives in China and Putin is coming soon
China’s top diplomat is in Russia to prepare the way for Putin’s visit to China in October while Syrian President Assad touched down in Hangzhou for a rare foreign visit.
The present battle to shape China’s future by controlling its past: Q&A with Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson’s journalism gives voice to ordinary Chinese people from all walks of life — the outcasts, the faithful, and, in the case of his latest book, the public intellectuals and storytellers recording the history that Beijing’s official censors are trying to erase.
China sends a record 103 warplanes to Taiwan
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense reported a “recent new high” of over 100 Chinese aircraft around the island. It’s the second record-breaking military drill that China has conducted near Taiwan in the past week.
Bruce Dickson on ‘the Party and the People’ and the key questions to understand China
In this recent book targeted to a non-scholarly audience, political scientist Bruce Dickson draws on recent China studies research to shed light on how the Chinese Communist Party deals with leadership succession, civil society, the business sector, religion, nationalism and more.
Advanced packaging is the frontier of semiconductor technology, and TSMC is in the lead
It’s becoming difficult to make microchips smaller, so the encasing around them is where advanced tech is going. TSMC’s advanced packaging technology has emerged as a game-changer, with repercussions extending far beyond circuitry for U.S.-Taiwan relations.
Why Indonesia did not join BRICS
Indonesia has a tricky balancing act to pull off right now. Like many countries, it’s stuck between a Chinese rock and an American hard place. This is what’s at stake.
In a retro mood: The ethical dilemmas of cutting a deal with Xi Jinping’s China
How can scholars, journalists, and others engage with China ethically? The eminent Sinologist Geremie Barmé offers 10 watchwords.
China leads the world in green energy, but it just can’t stop emitting greenhouse gasses
China is the world’s largest renewables generator and has cleaned the air in many cities, but it remains the world’s largest polluter, is addicted to coal, and is wasting solar panels on a massive scale.
Why is Hong Kong pushing crypto and web3?
Sam Bankman-Fried is behind bars, and the zeitgeist has moved on from cryptocurrencies and web3. But the Hong Kong government is charging ahead with blockchain technologies.
