Veteran China entrepreneur and financial analyst Anne Stevenson-Yang was in China for the roaring 1990s and 2000s. Things have gotten less fun since then, and she told us all about it.
A chat with Anthony Tao, The China Projectโs managing editor, who lives in Beijing, where some of his fellow residents are stockpiling food in fear of strict Shanghai-style lockdowns that could come to the city if COVID rates continue to rise.
I spoke to the renowned economist and former Morgan Stanley executive and found him gloomier on China than heโs ever been, and that his upcoming book will cost him access in Beijing. He also told me to get new friends.
Howard Snyder has decades of experience in risk and crisis management in Asia for companies like Coca Cola at events like the Shanghai Expo and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. We talked to him about Shanghai under lockdown and what it means for Chinaโs future.
Sofia Horta e Costa covers stocks, rates, foreign exchange, credit, and macro for Bloomberg in Hong Kong. She also runs ultramarathons. We talked to her about how investors and bankers in Hong Kong see China in the age of COVID lockdowns and Beijingโs ongoing crackdowns on the private sector.
We talked to renowned scholar Geremie R. Barmรฉ about Shanghai under lockdown, Xi Jinpingโs โempire of tedium,โ nationalist thugs, and much more.
We talked to global health policy expert Yanzhong Huang about why China is sticking to its COVID-zero strategy in the face of the biggest rise in infections since the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan in 2020.
We asked journalist and culture writer Jin Zhao all about Chinese queer radio plays and homoerotic fiction, genres that have a surprisingly large fan base in China.
Tom Orlik, the chief economist for Bloomberg Economics, answers our questions about Chinaโs economic growth and wild stock fluctuations in an age of uncertainty.