Sofia Horta e Costa covers stocks, rates, foreign exchange, credit, and macro for Bloomberg in Hong Kong. She also runs ultramarathons. We talked to her about how investors and bankers in Hong Kong see China in the age of COVID lockdowns and Beijing’s ongoing crackdowns on the private sector.
We talked to renowned scholar Geremie R. Barmé about Shanghai under lockdown, Xi Jinping’s “empire of tedium,” nationalist thugs, and much more.
We talked to global health policy expert Yanzhong Huang about why China is sticking to its COVID-zero strategy in the face of the biggest rise in infections since the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan in 2020.
We asked journalist and culture writer Jin Zhao all about Chinese queer radio plays and homoerotic fiction, genres that have a surprisingly large fan base in China.
Tom Orlik, the chief economist for Bloomberg Economics, answers our questions about China’s economic growth and wild stock fluctuations in an age of uncertainty.
Veteran tech investor and advisor Rui Ma answered our questions about the wild week that Chinese companies have had in markets on both sides of the Pacific.
Professor Tony Saich has been observing and studying China and its ruling Communist Party since the 1970s. He doesn’t think the Party and its leader, Xi Jinping, can be very pleased with Putin’s war.
As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, I spoke to Latvian-American scholar of Chinese soft power Maria Repnikova about her new book, and how Ukraine looks from Beijing.
Q&A with Linda Jaivin, author of ‘The Shortest History of China,’ discusses her latest book, wolf warrior diplomacy, the politics of masculinity, and the empress Wu Zetian.