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How does investigative reporting happen in China? A conversation with Li Xin of Caixin
Li Xin 李昕 is the managing director of Caixin Global, the English-language arm of China’s most authoritative financial news source, Caixin. For over 10 years, she has worked closely with the editor-in…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Kai-Fu Lee on artificial intelligence in China
Kai-Fu Lee 李开复 is one of the most prominent figures in Chinese technology. He founded China’s noted early-stage venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures after launching and heading up Google’s China …
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Reporting on Trump as a member of Chinese media
ChiaChieh Tang 唐家婕, who also goes by Jane, is a Taiwanese reporter who works as the U.S. bureau chief for Sina News (新浪新闻 xīnlàng xīnwén) in Washington, D.C. She is one of a few members of the mainla…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
Joseph Nye, Jr.: Chinese power in the age of Donald Trump
When Joseph Nye, Jr., first used the phrase soft power in 1990 in his book Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, China did not factor much into his calculus of world order: It had rel…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
The negotiator: Charlene Barshefsky
Charlene Barshefsky was a name you couldn’t avoid if you were in Beijing in the late 1990s. As the United States trade representative from 1997 to 2001, she led the American team that negotiated Chin…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
Bill Bishop on what it takes to be a good China-watcher
China-watching isn’t what it used to be. Not too long ago, the field of international China studies was dominated by a few male Westerners with an encyclopedic knowledge of China, but with surprising…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
How can we amplify women’s voices on China?
From business to literature to politics, there is a huge pool of female expertise on China. But you wouldn’t know it if you examined the names of people who are quoted in the media and invited to Chi…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
What actually happened at Mar-a-Lago?
As a career U.S. foreign service officer and the acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs at the U.S. State Department, Susan Thornton has had a hand in the China policy…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Virginia Kamsky: A life of business in China
Virginia A. Kamsky, also known as Ginny, is one of the leading foreign businesspeople in China and a legend of the U.S.-China commercial relationship. She first went to China in 1978 with what was th…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Nationalism in Russia and China
Is nationalism really rising in China? How does it differ from patriotism? What is “Eurasianism” and how does Russia use that concept? How much of China’s nationalism is rooted in the “century of hum…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago