Yuan Yang on China’s Gender and Rural-Urban Divides
The journalist-turned-lawmaker talks about her book on four women coming of age in modern China, the end of optimism for the younger generations, and being...
Jeffrey Ding on the Spread of AI
The political scientist tells us why we shouldn't just focus on how good countries are at innovation — but how well they adopt new technologies.
Ed Conway on Living in the Material World
The economics journalist talks about his travels to see how the substances we need for modern life are extracted and produced, the trade-offs involved and...
David Zweig on the Academic Chill Between the U.S. and China
The social scientist and author discusses the fallout from the Trump administration’s China Initiative and how the U.S. should approach academic links with its strategic...
Dmitri Alperovitch on Speeding Up Efforts to Deter China
The geopolitics analyst says Xi Jinping is bent on invading Taiwan and the U.S. needs to unite with its allies to win a new Cold...
Peter Hessler on China’s Past and Present
The journalist talks about his recent book, why he doesn’t believe the lab leak theory, and his Chinese students’ complicated futures.
Victor Shih on the Fallout from the Tech Sector Crackdown
The Chinese politics expert discusses how Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive upset the Party’s equilibrium and signs of splintering within the leader’s ruling faction.
Andreas Fulda on Germany’s Failure to Tackle the China Challenge
The German political scientist talks about the need for a paradigm shift in Germany’s foreign policy and the difficulty of countering hybrid threats.
Robert O’Brien on America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Failure Since the 1930s
The former national security advisor discusses the possibility of bombing Taiwanese chip fabs in any conflict, the fallout from January 6th and how a second...
Sam Hogg on What to Expect from Britain on China
The Beijing to Britain newsletter founder talks about how a new government in the UK might approach China and why the country has to date...
Jonathan Chatwin on the Significance of Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour
The writer explains why the aging Chinese leader’s trip to the south in 1992 became a landmark in the country’s reform and opening up era,...
Rahm Emanuel on Seeing China as a Strategic Adversary
The U.S. ambassador to Japan talks about China’s threat to the Philippines and other nations, shoring up America’s alliances in the Indo Pacific, and why...