China’s Ukraine Calculus
For a month now, China has tried to stay out of the Russia-Ukraine war — insisting that it is "not a party" to the situation....
Hard Knocks
Last summer, when Beijing effectively banned private tutoring companies, an entire industry was wiped out in a single day. Yu Minhong, the CEO of New...
Security Clearance
Last year, the notorious mercenary Erik Prince stepped down from FSG, the Hong Kong private security company he founded in 2014 that has since been...
The Thornton Touch
Since his retirement from Goldman Sachs in 2003, John Thornton has done everything in his power to be seen as a trusted intermediary between the...
The Censorship Circus
In an excerpt from his new book, Isaac Stone Fish argues that the Chinese Communist Party's influence has permeated American society so much that many...
The Surveillance Stake
For years, a Chinese company backed by American pension fund money and built by KKR, one of world's premier private equity firms, publicly touted its...
Transformed
In 2014, the movie "Transformers: Age of Extinction" marked a turning point for Hollywood in China: a kind of reverse censorship in which a studio...
Confronting Coercion
For years, China's economic coercion was subtle, selective...and wildly successful. But today, with Xi Jinping's more boisterous style, many western democracies are both tired of...
Changeless China?
In 1991, Orville Schell undertook an unlikely project for CBS's '60 Minutes': helping Chinese dissident Harry Wu infiltrate some of the prison camps in which...
The Quantum Edge
Quantum technologies have long sounded like they belong in the realm of science fiction. But in recent years, China, led by the brilliant physicist Pan...
Open Source
With traditional information gathering inside China nearly impossible these days, many researchers are using creative methods to mine the Chinese internet — and they're finding...
Who’s the Boss?
NYU Shanghai represented a huge experiment: Could an American university really maintain control in an authoritarian country? The answer a decade ago was an optimistic...