After China banned companies from making a profit by selling after school tutoring services, well-off parents and tutors quickly found ways to get around the regulations. But the Ministry of Education is on the case.
Rosie Levine and Jan Berris of the National Committee on United States-China Relations appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss what 82 U.S.-based think tanks, academic centers, and NGOs with China-focused programs had to say about studying the country during a downward spiral in bilateral relations.
In recent years, Taiwan has been trying to rectify the wrongs from its “White Terror” period, nearly four decades of martial law. But critics say the current ruling party, the DPP, is using “transitional justice” as a cudgel against its political opponents.
The Chinese government is cracking down on large companies and taxing wealthy individuals, but it’s also trying to encourage the growth of an entrepreneurial middle class. Today China’s leader highlighted small companies and ordinary people of limited means, and promised a new Beijing stock market.
China dominates the mining and refinement of rare earths, which are needed for almost all of the electronic devices that power our 21st-century lives. But contrary to popular perception, China neither can nor wants to weaponize the global supply.
In June 2021, China was declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization. Here’s how the country rid itself of the mosquito borne disease.
Zhejiang is the economic powerhouse that set the groundwork for the rise of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Now the purge of the Party chief of Hangzhou, a business center of the province and home to Alibaba, has sent a chill across the country’s political and business elites. Lizzi Lee explains why.
Contrary to media reports, Sino-foreign higher education partnerships are doing just fine.
A year after its Xinjiang-based subsidiary was sanctioned by the U.S. government, textile giant Esquel Group recently successfully got the Department of Commerce to reverse its decision. Harvard researcher Bill Overholt appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss the case.