Nearly one in three smokers in the world is Chinese. In 2018, there were nearly 800,000 new cases of lung cancer diagnosed in China, and every year, over a million Chinese people die from tobacco-related diseases. Tobacco control campaigns are becoming more serious in China, but massive tax revenues from state-owned tobacco companies and cultural normalization stand in the way.
In this week’s The China Project Signal, we’ll take a look at the current state of philanthropy in China, trace some of the most significant trends in its explosive expansion over the last decade, and consider what the future may have in store for this dynamic sector.
Like many things within China, the country’s notorious censorship system is opaque. Below, we describe the organizations that have the power to control what is published and broadcast in the People’s Republic, and how they communicate their demands.
Mass internment in concentration camps, forced labor, parent-child separation: These are just a few of the realities of life for Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. Scholar Darren Byler explains.
In this week’s The China Project Signal, we’ll explain exactly how the ONGO Law works, the major obstacles it presents to a range of groups, and what this suggests about China’s preferred style of international exchange and cooperation.
While China is set to lose the crown of the world’s largest gaming market to the U.S. in 2019, the industry’s growth in the past ten years is nothing short of phenomenal.
Why China won’t sell its U.S. debt holdings, even with the trade war in its second year. Plus, the related issue of Chinese currency devaluation.
Tracking paranoid rhetoric, visa restrictions, and the targeted policing of China-connected research, which combine to create a hostile atmosphere for Chinese people in the U.S.