China and Pakistan fast-track economic ties with more railways, ports, and yuan
The leaders of “iron brothers” met in Beijing and assured each of other of their mutual support, financial and moral.
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Postgaming the Party Congress
In a live show taping, Lizzi Lee of The China Project's “Live with Lizzi Lee" and Damien Ma, who heads the Paulson Institute's in-house think tank MacroPolo, break down the 20th Party Congress, Xi Jinping’s leadership picks, and where China might be headed.
How Xi commands the guns | Live with Lizzi Lee
Dan Mattingly, an assistant professor of political science at Yale, draws from data on the PLA’s military appointments to analyze how China picks commanding officers to counter domestic and foreign threats.
Workers flee Apple’s biggest iPhone factory in China in fear of COVID lockdown
Photos and videos of migrant workers fleeing a Foxconn plant to avoid a COVID lockdown went viral in China.
The Beijing protest that turned thousands into ‘digital ghosts’
What happens when WeChat automatically suspends thousands of accounts due to a sensitive keyboard? People become furious — and apologetic.
How China’s state security controls its narrative in the West | Live with Lizzi Lee
Author Alex Joske talks about the great lengths to which the CCP’s long-reaching security arm manipulates the West’s attitudes about China.
There is no hope the Communist Party can reform — Q&A with Frank Dikötter
The renowned Dutch historian of modern China answered my questions about the just-concluded Party congress, and why my youthful dreams of a more open China were always going to be disappointed.
China gets a new propaganda chief
Since the conclusion of the Communist Party’s 20th congress, Xi Jinping has appointed new officials to top leadership positions — including the man who will run China’s global image.
Grifter Guo Wengui, the Donald Trump of Beijing
Evan Osnos, staff writer for the New Yorker, talks about his new piece on one of the most puzzling figures to come out of China: Guo Wengui, also known as Miles Kwok. But those are just two of the many names he goes by to some very powerful people in China and the American right.