Photographer Zhou Qiang documents two families who lost their only children in the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Despite the women’s age—one was in her late 30s, one in her early 40s—both decided to have another child in the years following the earthquake. The photographer captures the struggles of raising children at an advanced age, and the moral complexities of having another child to replace one who died.
As tensions between the United States and China rise over security issues in the Asia-Pacific region, some are concerned about the possibility of conflict between the world’s two largest economies. Dennis Wilder, former Senior Director for East Asia on the George W. Bush administration’s National Security Council, has witnessed many high and low points in the U.S.-China relationship over his distinguished four-decade career in the U.S. government.
In early August, news broke that Uber would sell its China business to Didi Chuxing, its largest rival on the Mainland. Uber is just the latest in a series of tech companies—including Google, Twitter, and Amazon, among others—that found the Middle Kingdom a tough nut to crack. What lesson can other internet innovators learn from Uber’s retreat in China?
Angela Bao is an investor at Idea Bulb Ventures, the U.S. investment arm of China’s Innovation Works (创新工场), an early-stage venture capital fund founded by the former President of Google China. Bao is responsible for education tech and hardware investments, as well as for China-based startups’ overseas strategy. Previously, she was a China analyst at the Rhodium Group in New York and prior to that, a researcher at The New York Times in Shanghai.
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