Jake Sullivan on Keeping Ahead of China
Biden's National Security Adviser sets out what he was trying to achieve in dealing with Beijing, where he thinks Trump 2.0 has taken a wrong...
China’s Rocket Deficit
The country’s Starlink challengers are in a race against time to send more satellites into orbit. But is China’s fragmented commercial rocket industry up to...
Chasing the Chip Smugglers
The exposure of a U.S.-based operation that smuggled Nvidia’s AI chips to China raises questions about the role of major companies and the authorities charged...
The Answer to Germany’s China Problem: Open Up
German leader Friedrich Merz has the chance to take advantage of his country’s reversal of fortunes with China.
Frank Dikötter on the Chinese Communist Party’s Troubled Early Years
The historian on countering long-held narratives about the CCP’s role in the war against Japan and the legacy of those years on its rule today.
Bridging the Pacific
In an adaptation of her forthcoming book, The New Tech Titans of China, Rebecca Fannin profiles Shanghai-based Qiming Venture Partners and its American founder, Gary...
Yi-Ling Liu on the Chinese Internet Dance
The journalist talks about the expansion of China’s Great Firewall, and the creativity and resilience that exists behind it.
China’s Arms Sales Hit A Snag
China’s weapons exports are in decline even as other countries ramp up sales.
Epstein and China
Jeffrey Epstein aspired to do deals in China, corresponding with Peter Mandelson and David Stern, a German associate who was close to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The...
Ali Wyne on the Rupture in the China Consensus
The analyst discusses how President Trump’s approach to China has given Xi Jinping the upper hand, and why it’s now time for a rethink on...
David Li on the World’s “Misconceptions” about China
The economist explains why local governments’ debt woes are the key to China’s economic issues, and why the country could do with more Taylor Swift...
American or Chinese Exceptionalism?
Both U.S. and Chinese leaders are guilty of personalizing the conflict-prone Sino-American relationship. Continuing down this path raises the question of which country is truly...