Mu Chen is the chairman, founder, and co-editor of BigOne Lab, a.k.a. Baiguan, a data provider that aims ”to power investment research on Chinese companies” at a time when Beijing has made it tough for outsiders to access official data of all kinds.
Jeremy Wallace, associate professor at Cornell University, discusses how the Chinese Communist Party controls information by manipulating data, such as GDP statistics.
At an international conference, at least five scholars based in China faced pressure from Chinese officials to withdraw.
Maria Repnikova, an assistant professor at Georgia State University, joins the Sinica Podcast to discuss China's media coverage and response to the war in Ukraine, and the impact of China's pro-Russian tilt on Beijing's soft-power ambitions.