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In mainland China, fear of Taiwanese independence feeds the fever of traumatized nationalism, unites domestic rivals around a shared national dream, and serves as a never-ending threat that justifies enormous military expenditures — but not for war.
Huarong, a state-owned debt management company, indirectly owns shares in almost 80,000 Chinese companies. But as rumors swirl about Huarong's financial health, we need to scrutinize the entirety of China's larger state-owned financial sector.
Ant’s deceptive branding, conflicts of interest, and predatory lending behavior fostered a vicious cycle that called for state intervention.
With Western sanctions piling up, the urgency is increasing for China and Russia to develop financial alternatives to the dominant dollar-Euro financial system. The RMB, while far from replacing the dollar, is slowly gaining traction as an international currency.
Alibaba affiliate Ant Group is taking a hammering from regulators, but the government’s intent is to tame the fintech giant, not ruin its business.
Protecting the Uyghurs isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s also good politics.
The Department of Justice launched the "China Initiative" two years ago to counter perceived "national security threats." But with the recent indictment of MIT professor Gang Chen — whose colleagues delivered a strong, coordinated show of support on his behalf — we have a clear example of how the policy fails.
With Trump gone, the U.S. now has an opportunity to engage constructively with China’s future leaders, if not its current ones. Track II diplomacy is vital in restoring normalcy to bilateral relations between these superpowers.
Litmus tests for U.S. citizenship based on Communist Party membership are a throwback to the 1950s. They still don't make sense.
The trajectory of the U.S.-China relationship is the most important human-controlled variable in the equation that determines the ultimate outcome of humanity. The onus to understand “the other” does not fall to just “us” or just “them” — we are irrevocably in this together by circumstance of birth on the same planet at this exact point in time. It's why we at SupChina do what we do to help increase mutual understanding.