Is Hong Kong in its ‘death throes’?
Photo: Lam Yik Fei, New York Times Two months into the Hong Kong protests this year, the respected lawyer Dan…
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Desperate Trump sidelines Hong Kong
On Thursday, we noted that the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, sending the bill closer…
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Xi Jinping on Xinjiang in leaked documents: ‘Absolutely no mercy’
Photo: Gilles Sabrié, New York Times Over the weekend, the New York Times published one of the most significant document leaks from the…
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What do the Hong Kong protesters want?
Hong Kong is now paralyzed on a near-daily basis by violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police. How did we…
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Rising sea levels to turn Shanghai into a swamp — study
A new study on sea level rise due to climate change was published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, titled,…
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Joshua Wong is disqualified from elections in Hong Kong
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong speaks to journalists after being disqualified from running in district council elections in Hong Kong. October…
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A setback for Beijing in Solomon Islands
A map from Wikipedia of the various groupings of island nations in the Pacific, which we included in our brief guide…
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Beyond The NBA China Issue: How China Forces American Companies to Apologize
We investigated the NBA and China situation and found other American companies that have been forced to apologize and submit…
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All the international brands that have apologized to China
The definitive list of international companies that have issued apologies to maintain their market access in China in recent years.…
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Pence says NBA censorship is ‘un-American,’ but denies decoupling with China
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech yesterday in Washington, D.C., on U.S.-China relations, following up on his China bash-fest…
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Ilham Tohti wins European Parliament’s top human rights prize
Like the U.S., European countries are getting tougher on human rights in China. The most significant signs of that this…
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Tencent resumes NBA streaming as gaming companies censor their staff and players
Pictured: Mei, a character from the Blizzard game Overwatch, as depicted by the artist Yuumei, via Pro Guides.
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A tentative, partial, ‘phase one’ trade truce [UPDATE]
The infographic above, tweeted by scholar Ankit Panda, accurately describes some of the events of the week in Washington, D.C. Chinese…
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NBA stands firm as CCTV cuts preseason broadcasts and brands flee
Two days after the NBA groveled to Chinese fans over a tweet by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey that supported Hong…
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Xinjiang sanctions finally come, two days before 13th round of trade talks
The system of mass internment camps for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has been documented in a steady…
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