What to do about China? That’s a question heard almost daily by Jason Young, who heads up New Zealand’s most important center of China studies as the island nation balances between the enormous economic benefits and the real potential for everything to go wrong in its relationship with the Asian giant.
On July 10, hundreds of people gathered on the steps outside the People’s Bank of China building in Zhengzhou, Henan Province in the latest protest over banks that won't honor their customers' deposits. But what exactly were those customers putting their money into? Liqian Ren explains some important details.
The cloak and dagger business isn’t what it used to be, and China’s Type 003 carrier isn’t going to fight any big wars: These are some takeaways from my chat with Sam Rogeveen, a former top spy for America’s staunch southern ally.
Henry Sanderson is one of the world’s leading experts on the geopolitics of electric vehicles and low carbon power. He told me all about China’s domination of the supply chains for the cars, the batteries that make them go, and what everyone needs to understand about the global race for EV dominance.
Karen Ma is a novelist and reporter whose most recent book profiles Chinese independent filmmakers who were born in the 1980s. We discussed the distinctive traits of this generation, censorship, and the evolution of moviemaking in China in the last few decades.
Rayhan Asat and her brother worked for better Uyghur-Han relations in China. Then he was forcibly disappeared. So Rayhan was outraged by the recent visit of the UN’s human rights chief to Xinjiang that became a photo op for Beijing. She also had some pointed criticism for The China Project.
The lockdown in Shanghai prompted questions about the legality of some of the coercive measures taken by the Chinese government in the efforts to control the spread of COVID-19. Neysun Mahboubi, a leading scholar of Chinese law and governance, told me about the Chinese legal community’s reactions, and much more.
As a new leader takes control of Hong Kong, the activist and historian Jeffrey Ngo takes stock of the recent crackdowns on civil society, Hong Kong’s history of peaceful protest, and shares his thoughts on why the Tibetan exile movement may be a model for Hong Kongers’ future.
Joyce Chang told us that J.P. Morgan has taken down its full year China forecasts to 4.3% GDP growth given the sorry state of the world. She talked about supply chain disruptions, real estate gloom, knock on effects from Ukraine and much more.