Ai Weiwei retweeted me!” exclaimed a young blonde woman, laughing and waving her iPhone in the air with excitement. She and some two hundred other New Yorkers had gathered on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza to show her solidarity with the iconic artist-activist currently under close government surveillance half a world away.
The late Kim Wall was a Swedish journalist based between New York and Beijing. She wrote about popular culture, gender, foreign policy, and identity. Her work was featured in publications including Harpers, The Guardian, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Vice Magazine, and TIME. She earned a B.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Master’s degrees in Journalism and International Affairs from Columbia University. She died tragically in August 2017.
Earlier this year, former San Francisco planning advisor Eugene Leong looked at the legacy of air pollution in San Francisco. Here he draws out ten key policy lessons for China's leadership.
Recognize PM2.5 pollution as a complex problem that needs long-term solutions.
Tencent will promote King Enterainment's highly addictive game on its mobile chat application WeChat, which now has 355 million monthly active users.
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Established in Washington, D.C. over 50 years ago, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to providing strategic insights and policy solutions to help decision-makers chart a course toward a better world.
In late 2015, Thomas J. Pritzker was named Chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees. Mr. Pritzker succeeded former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), who chaired the CSIS Board of Trustees from 1999 to 2015. CSIS is led by John J. Hamre, president and chief executive officer since April 2000.
Founded in 1962 by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke, CSIS is one of the world’s preeminent international policy institutions focused on defense and security; regional study; and transnational challenges ranging from energy and trade to global development and economic integration. For the past five years consecutively, CSIS has been named the world’s number one think tank for international security by the University of Pennsylvania’s “GoTo Think Tank Index.”
The Center’s 220 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that look to the future and anticipate change. CSIS is regularly called upon by Congress, the executive branch, and the media to explain the day’s events and offer bipartisan recommendations to improve U.S. strategy.
Taiwan has a chance to set a positive example and chart a peaceful course in managing and eventually resolving East Asian maritime disputes.
Concerns that Chinese hardliners could seek to use Crimea as a precedent for moves against disputed territories in the Asia-Pacific should not be overplayed.
Amid spreading prosperity, a generation of self-styled also-rans emerges.
Strong interest from Chinese speculators drove up global bitcoin prices last year to above $1,000, sparking a crackdown by the People's Bank of China.
Austin Woerner is a Chinese-English literary translator. He has translated two volumes of poetry, Doubled Shadows: Selected Poetry of Ouyang Jianghe (Zephyr, 2012) and Phoenix by Ouyang Jianghe (forthcoming from Zephyr, 2014), and a novel, The Invisible Valley (still unpublished) by Su Wei. Formerly the English Editor for the Chinese literary magazine Chutzpah!, Woerner has a Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies from Yale and an MFA in creative writing from the New School.
