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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.
Uyghur crisis discussion on sidelines of UN General Assembly goes ahead despite intimidation from Beijing
China’s Mission to the UN circulated a letter to diplomats in New York discouraging attendance at an event marking the first anniversary of a UN report saying China’s treatment of the Uyghurs may constitute “crimes against humanity.”
China is going to use less coal, despite reports to the contrary
Hydro, wind, and solar power are stabilizing, and burning the dirtiest of fossil fuels is near the plateau it must reach before coal is dethroned.
Ian Johnson on “Sparks,” his new book on China’s underground historians
This week on Sinica, Pulitzer Prize–winning veteran journalist Ian Johnson, now a senior China fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Kaiser to discuss his new book, “Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future.”
This is the state of generative AI in China
Chinese tech companies are racing to create and monetize the type of artificial intelligence known as “generative AI,” which ChatGPT recently made famous.
Queer cinema in Hong Kong, before and after 1997: Q&A with Helen Hok-Sze Leung
The Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival has returned after three years of pandemic-enforced restrictions and virtual programs. On this occasion, we recently spoke to Helen Hok-Sze Leung, an expert on queer cinema and Hong Kong culture.
The origins of World War II in Asia
The Mukden Incident — when explosives detonated along the route of the South Manchurian Railway near Shenyang — was a pretext for Japanese aggression in Asia. The events of that Friday night are underwhelming, almost ridiculous, in the context of what they sparked.
My bosses made a bet that I would quit. I haven’t…yet.
China’s youth unemployment rate is soaring, and competition for good jobs is fiercer than ever. At the same time, young people are choosing to exit the rat race, jump between jobs, or quit working altogether. What gives?
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.
The many business projects between China and Trinidad and Tobago
Seeing its oil draining away, Trinidad is seeking to become a logistics hub for international trade, capitalizing on its position between Latin America and the Panama Canal. So, naturally, China was one of its go-tos.
Chinese parents rally against school meals over food security concerns
After years of unchecked growth, the Chinese industry of pre-cooked, ready-to-eat food is now trying to create a new market in schools. The move, however, was immediately opposed by parents.
Oct 23, 2023 | Who owns China’s tech titans?
From Bytedance to Huawei and the Belt & Road to semiconductor fabrication plants, Chinese companies have been at the center of regulatory risk for many years, and it’s getting more intense by the day. Yet working with China as a supplier or customer (or both) remains an absolute necessity in certain areas such as clean energy, complex manufacturing, and commodity markets. Join us for a one-hour webinar during which we’ll show you exactly how to verify the ownership, executives, and legal histories of Chinese technology companies so that your organization can make more informed decisions about its China exposure.
Oct 16, 2023 | Complying with new U.S. laws on investment in China
President Joe Biden signed an executive order prohibiting new US investment in China in sensitive technologies such as computer chips, quantum information technologies, and certain AI systems. This comes on top of CFIUS laws of years past, the CHIPs act restricting U.S. persons from working for Chinese semiconductor firms, and the U.S. “entity list” barring U.S. companies from doing any form of business with certain Chinese companies. How can international companies still do business with the world’s second-largest economy yet avoid working with restricted entities? And, are there even more rules and regulations in the pipeline?
Sep 18, 2023 | Open-Source Intelligence in Crisis: Navigating China’s Restrictions
From government agencies to Wall Street investors, countless institutions rely on regular, stable access to public information about Chinese companies and leaders. Since Sept 2022, China began to block anybody outside its borders from accessing these major databases. What are China researchers to do? Join The China Project for an intimate, collaborative discussion with veteran researchers of Chinese open-source intelligence. Together, we reflect on the latest challenges, discuss their implications for due diligence work, and exchange best practices.
General Li Shangfu, China’s defense minister, has disappeared. Corruption?
“I don’t think it calls into question Xi Jinping’s control of the military, but it should be a reminder about how much corruption exists in the system,” says one China observer.
BRI at 10: China builds roads to combat its image problem in Central Asia
China wants to “tell its story well,” but is that possible in a region where Sinophobia runs deep?
The China Agenda for September 18–24 — UNGA, Hou You-yi in the U.S.
This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of September 18–24.
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.
