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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.
The Chinese government is right to be concerned about the source of its food, but protectionism is not the answer.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
Contrary to media reports, Sino-foreign higher education partnerships are doing just fine.
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban reminded some nationalistic Chinese commenters of the victory of the People’s Liberation Army in 1949. They have a point, argues the noted Sinologist Geremie R. Barmé.
In May 2021, an Israeli company became the first documented case of China imposing free expression limitations on a foreign business under the 2020 Hong Kong National Security Law. Tuvia Gering argues that democracies must research the law and its implications to ensure that their citizens are not prosecuted for exercising their basic rights.