A prolonged heat wave in China has drained water reserves and ignited forest fires, forcing authorities to extend power curbs in a bid to shore up the country’s strained energy supply and keep the COVID-hit economy running.
Envoys from the United States and Japan are currently paying visits to Taiwan, adding to the list of foreign delegations that have angered Beijing since Pelosi’s trip.
One of Time magazine’s “top 100 influential people in the world,” Andrew Sheng is a Malaysian-born banker, financial regulator, and scholar, and one of the most interesting people in the world to talk to.
This week in China-Russia relations: The People’s Liberation Army is sending troops to Russia to join military games, as Putin offers moral and ideological support for his best friends in Beijing.
The student activist is among 29 defendants expected to accept subversion charges under Beijing’s highly controversial legislation, which has all but quelled any remaining anti-government protests since coming into force two years ago.
“Picking quarrels and provoking trouble” is routinely used as a reason to detain Chinese journalists, activists, and those who dare to speak out against Beijing’s norms. Last week, it was used to detain a woman wearing a kimono amid a tide of anti-Japanese sentiment in China.
A fortnight after Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan and enraged Beijing, another group of U.S. politicians touched down in Taipei. But Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are still set to meet face to face in November, according to a new report.
Niva Yau is a Hong Kong–born scholar who lives in Kyrgyzstan, from where she observes China’s relationships with its western neighbors. She told me all about Beijing’s business in Kabul a year after America pulled out of Afghanistan.
The geopolitical risks to the market of Taiwan tensions explained by ex U.S. diplomat Bill Klein