It’s the Real Economy, Stupid
While it’s tempting to simplify the Chinese tech sector to 'soft' versus 'hard' tech, this is not the reality.
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...
Minxin Pei on the Biggest Misperception about China’s Surveillance State
The political scientist talks about China’s appetite for political reform, why no one saw Xi Jinping coming, U.S. responsiveness, and why China’s low tech surveillance...
Chen Qiufan on Science Fiction as a Weapon of Storytelling
The writer talks about why technology is the only valid tool we have right now, how sci-fi is becoming too conservative as a genre, and China's...
China’s Metaverse: The Great Firewall 2.0?
China's metaverse could look a lot different than the rest of the world’s.
Who is Hubble Technology?
A look at Huawei's venture capital fund and how it’s helping the telecoms giant out of its financial woes.
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...
China’s EV Evolution
A look at China’s EV transition, including the hottest selling cars, which brands are benefitting the most and how foreign automakers have lost out.
Jeff Stoff & Glenn Tiffert on Why the U.S. Needs to Do Its Homework on Chinese Research Partners
The authors talk about their new Hoover Institution report, the big picture of unclassified research collaboration, and why academics can't just neatly compartmentalize risk.
China’s mRNA Boost
With a mRNA vaccine finally in trials, will China change its Covid approach?
Cybersecurity, Made in China
A look at Feitian Technologies, which sells security devices to Google, Symantec, J.P. Morgan and Softbank.