The Renminbi’s New Role: Sanctions Busting
The Chinese currency remains far from supplanting the U.S. dollar in global trade, but its increasing usage abroad is helping its allies and friends get...
Hong Kong’s New Crypto Creditor
A look at ZA Bank: the firm’s ties to Chinese online insurer Zhongan Insurance, potential parallels with Silvergate Bank, and what Hong Kong’s crypto openness...
How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis
No two crises are alike. That is true of recent financial upheavals – the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, the dot-com crisis of...
Chinese Tech Feels the SVB Effect
The collapse of the Californian bank has exposed the financial ties between U.S. finance and Chinese start-ups.
SVB’s First Failure
When Ken Wilcox, a former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, moved to Shanghai in 2011, he was optimistic and eager to start up the bank's...
Nothing Ventured
A look at venture capital investment into China.
Without a Trace
A look at Bao Fan's disappearance and others like it.
Meg Rithmire on the Unhappy Equilibrium of China’s Markets
The professor talks about China's real estate bubble; if China can develop a modern financial system without rule of law; and why it's not China...
China’s Bill of Health
A look at the state of China’s healthcare system, including the cost of zero-Covid.
Global Change of Heart
Has foreign investor sentiment towards China changed for good, or can potential policy changes restore confidence?
Twitter vs. Weibo
A look at the two social media sites: their financials, their business models and their content moderation.
The Yuan’s International Makeover
In a widely overlooked shift, Beijing has started overhauling its approach to RMB internationalization.