China Has Cordoned 100,000 Square Kilometers of the South China Sea For Military Drills
on July 6, 2016
Drills are expected to run a day before the UN-backed tribunal ruling is issued, July 11...
Torrential Rain Wreaks Havoc in Central, Eastern China but Yangtze Flood Risks Diminish
on July 6, 2016
El Nino reaches Central China, flood controll efforts reach a critical state....
China Stocks Rise on Reform Hopes, as Other Asian Shares Sag
on July 6, 2016
President Xi calls for overhauling state-owned enterprises....
US-China Gap on North Korea Policy Widening as Interests Diverge
on July 6, 2016
U.S. President Donald Trump’s hopes for China’s help with restraining North Korea appear to have gone nowhere, with the two sides growing farther apart as their approaches and concerns diverge.
Uncertainty in China-Europe Relations
A China in the World Podcast
on July 5, 2016
Economic relations between Europe and China remain highly salient due to the potential for increased trade and investment, as well as future cooperation on projects stemming from the Belt and Road initiative. Yet, in this podcast with Paul Haenle, François Godement argues that China-E.U. commercial relations are increasingly asymmetric and spontaneous, which presents opportunities and challenges to the overall relationship.
Li’s Gamble
on July 5, 2016
Li Mingjin, a 38-year-old coal miner, worked hard and was the sole breadwinner for his family. For 19 years, he toiled deep in the belly of the earth beneath Shanxi province. But in November 2014, by the time he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he was too sick to continue working. His wife, Ning Xianfang, was left to care for him and their two daughters, six-year-old Siyao and four-year-old Mengmeng. Without his employment or any form of health insurance (they had opted not to buy insurance from the government), the family’s economic situation quickly became dire.
François Godement
on July 4, 2016
François Godement is an expert on Chinese and East Asian strategic and international affairs and is a nonresident senior associate in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His current research focuses on trends and debates in China’s foreign policy and on Europe-China relations.
Godement is also Director of the Asia and China program at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and a research associate at Asia Centre, which he founded in 2005. He is the Editor of China Analysis, a quarterly analytical survey of Chinese news and debate published by Asia Centre and ECFR. In addition, Godement serves as a consultant to the Policy Planning Directorate of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 1985 to 2014, Godement was a professor of Political Sciences at Sciences Po Paris, a professor at the French Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, and created the Center for Asian Studies at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales. In 1995, he co-founded the European Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, which he co-chaired until 2008. He has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Europe China Academic Network.
Martin Hála
on July 1, 2016
Martin Hála (Ph.D.) is a sinologist currently based in Prague. Educated in Prague, Shanghai, Berekley, and at Harvard, he has taught at universities in Prague and Bratislava, and conducted research in China, Taiwan, and the U.S. He has worked for several media-assistance organizations in Europe and Asia, and from 2014-2015 served as the Asia Pacific regional manager at the Open Society Foundations. At present, he is the Director of the new nonprofit AcaMedia.
Tornados and Drag Queens
The Month’s Best Chinese Photojournalism
on July 1, 2016
Being a photojournalist involves reacting to breaking news, a dedication to long-term projects, and everything in between. This month’s showcase of work by Chinese photographers published in Chinese media underscores this range of angles: from the immediate response to last week’s tornado disaster that destroyed parts of Jiangsu province, to the seasonal reports on the gaokao—China’s annual nationwide college entrance exam—and on yarsagumba—the extravagantly priced Chinese medicine made when a fungus infects a caterpillar, to Yan Changjiang’s and Li Zhensheng’s projects that date back decades.
Tim Summers
on July 1, 2016
Tim Summers works on the politics, political economy, and international relations of contemporary China. He is a (non-resident) Senior Consulting Fellow on the Asia Program at Chatham House and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Recent publications include an article on China’s “new silk road” for Third World Quarterly, the Chatham House research paper “China’s Global Personality” (2014), and a book, Yunnan: A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia (Chandos, 2013). Summers was a British diplomat for 13 years, including a posting as Consul-General in Chongqing from 2004 to 2007.