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Hong Kong resistance will live on
Beijing’s national security law has had a chilling effect on protest and free speech in Hong Kong, but the city — contrary to popular punditry — is far from dead.
In the Global South, China is pitching its Ukraine stance as an antidote to Western hypocrisy
Amid the Ukraine war and the economic impact of massive sanctions on Russia, China is deftly connecting worries about international turbulence with Africa’s wider perception that it’s perpetually ignored. Here’s what that means for the future of China’s relations with the Global South.
China’s insistence on food security is hurting consumers
The Chinese government is right to be concerned about the source of its food, but protectionism is not the answer.
‘Shang-Chi’ changes script on Asian masculinity in time of increased anti-Asian hate
The release of ‘Shang-Chi’ during the pandemic is of no small import, as anti-Asian sentiment and incidences of anti-Asian hate in the U.S. and around the world continues to rise at an alarming rate.
India-China tensions flare up again over border issues and Tibet
Indian domestic politics erupted in controversy over China last week. The fallout is limiting the government’s room to maneuver to resolve a border crisis.
Hong Kong and Taiwan both vote, in very different ways, with very different results
Voters in Hong Kong and Taiwan went to the polls over the weekend, but the circumstances couldn’t be more different. Beijing released a white paper that talked glowingly about “universal suffrage” as the goal in Hong Kong, but included caveats that make clear it does not see the natural progression of democracy in the city as being anything like Taiwan’s experience.
Understanding China’s historic changes through informed empathy
“There is something major afoot in China right now,” says Kaiser Kuo, but single-lens analysis that lacks empathy won’t cut it in providing insight into the complexity of the changes. What SupChina has called the Red New Deal could mark the start of a new phase in Chinese history, and it deserves to be taken seriously and seen from multiple perspectives.
What the U.S. got out of China engagement through the S&ED
Prior to the Trump administration, top government officials from the world's two largest economies used to meet annually in a massive forum. Susan Thornton, Rorry Daniels, and Daniel Jasper appeared on the Sinica Podcast to discuss a new study that pushes back on the view — now popular in Washington — that the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was unproductive.
Misleading headlines about China’s education sector miss the real story
Contrary to media reports, Sino-foreign higher education partnerships are doing just fine.