Xi Jinping By the Numbers
Ten years after Xi Jinping ascended to China’s top leadership position, the Chinese Communist Party is a party remade. More than at any point in...
Xiao Jianhua’s Lost Empire
A look at Xiao Jianhua’s financial empire: the companies involved, what’s happened to them, and what, if anything, remains.
The News Anchor Caught in the Sino-Australian Crossfire
Cheng Lei, a prominent Australian journalist, has been detained in China for two years. Can the new Australian administration reset relations and finally help set...
Insuring Engagement
At age 97, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the former CEO of AIG, has advocated for deeper U.S. engagement with China for longer than perhaps any living...
New Kid on the Block
Thanks to He Yifan, China is pioneering its own state-backed version of Web3, internet infrastructure that runs on blockchain. But now that He's network is...
The Bridge Builder
As the U.S. government doubles down on its tech competition with China, it needs people like Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, to help...
Born to Run
After capitalizing on China's crypto boom, Binance CEO "CZ" fled China just in the nick of time. But critics say he's been running ever since,...
Fall Guy
After the U.S. government started investigating ZTE for sanctions violations, the company's American General Counsel, Ashley Yablon, turned to the FBI and spilled the billion...
Friedland’s Revenge
Robert Friedland says the renewable energy transition won’t be achieved without people like him digging up the critical metals needed “to electrify the world economy.”...
The Nickel Empire
After fluctuations in the nickel market caused Xiang Guangda to lose $8 billion, we take a look at his other big bets.
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...
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...