On August 26, the Israeli Embassy in China posted a one-minute video to its official account on Weibo, China’s huge microblogging platform, thanking the coastal Chinese city of Shanghai for its role sheltering roughly 20,000 Jews fleeing persecution before and during World War II.
Psychologists have hailed coloring as a good relaxation technique, and some have likened it to meditation.
How the U.S. might use the summit for a new “new model of great power relations.”
Bearish options market bets climbed as traders weighed level of state support before a World War II parade this week.
As anyone who reads the Sinocism newsletter knows, Bill Bishop is among the most plugged-in people in Beijing with an uncanny ability to figure out what is actually happening in the halls of power. But as casual readers may not be aware, he is also an excellent podcast guest due to his habit of bringing first cupcakes and now amazingly smooth bottles of Japanese whisky to our recording sessions before trading the latest gossip about the goings-on in Zhongnanhai.
The moves indicate the political sensitivities aggravated in recent weeks by several volatile issues.
All born or naturalized in the US and subject to jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the state where they reside.
Obama is developing unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese who have benefited from government cybertheft of U.S. trade secrets.
Anyone trying to design an event to bring Xi Jinping’s China back to Earth couldn’t have engineered something much more elegant than the turmoil in China’s financial markets and the resulting global aftershocks. The upheaval is traumatic for China’s leaders but not life-threatening to China’s system. Yet the jolt may have been just large enough to change the country’s underlying bargain between ruler and ruled—and by doing so, to temper Beijing’s current tendency toward arrogance, rigidity, belligerence and diplomatic hectoring.
Daouda Cissé has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the China Institute at the University of Alberta since January 2015. He previously worked for the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa from 2011-2014. His work focuses on China, Africa-China, and Canada-China relations, and particularly looks at China’s domestic and overseas trade and investments. He has published several papers on Africa-China trade and investments, Chinese multinational companies, sustainable development issues in Africa, Chinese investment policies and Chinese companies’ business strategies in Africa, and trade-migration-development in Africa-China relations by exploring African traders in China and Chinese traders in Africa.
Cissé received a Ph.D. in Economics from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China, in 2010. His doctoral thesis was titled “The Influence of Globalisation on Trade: the Evidence of China’s Imports and Exports with African Markets.” He speaks Mandinka, Wolof, Fulani, Bambara, French, English, Spanish, and Mandarin.
