Mental health care is a growing area of focus in China’s stressed-out society, especially since the disruptions of COVID-19. George Hu, the president of the Shanghai International Mental Health Association, appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss China's changing mental health conversation.
Wang Huning is the most important political theorist in Xi Jinping's China. But what kind of ideology does this man, who ascended to the Politburo Standing Committee after decades of advising different CCP leaders, actually believe in?
“There is something major afoot in China right now,” says Kaiser Kuo, but single-lens analysis that lacks empathy won’t cut it in providing insight into the complexity of the changes. What The China Project has called the Red New Deal could mark the start of a new phase in Chinese history, and it deserves to be taken seriously and seen from multiple perspectives.
New research shows that in the first year of the U.S.-China trade war, the Trump administration’s tariffs and other actions elevated political risk for companies — but the American firms in China that were most exposed to tariffs were not more likely to exit the Chinese market, let alone repatriate to the U.S.
Taiwan was the engine that powered China’s transformation into a global economic superpower, the scholar Shelley Rigger writes in her new book, "The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China's Economic Rise." She appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss the history of cross-Taiwan Strait economic ties.
“China, when it makes targets, is not unreliable in commitments,” said Michael Davidson, a leading scholar on China's environmental policy. But that doesn't mean the path to carbon neutral will be easy.
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.
The prominent economic historian was frustrated with the common story of China’s rise that “goes from GDP to defense budgets, to a challenge to American hegemony.” He appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss which historical comparisons and context help — or don’t — in making sense of modern China.
The political scientist Yiqing Xu explains his “new-ish” methods for studying the dynamics of politics in China, including ways to map public sentiment and public opinion in authoritarian states.