Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s recent state visit to Beijing is the latest evidence that China is maneuvering to play a bigger role in the Middle East and Persian Gulf. The two countries reportedly signed deals worth upwards of $65 billion during the summit.
Despite Xi Jinping’s crackdown and Donald Trump’s silence on human rights, China has a vibrant democratic legacy that may yet reassert itself.
On March 26, the roughly 1,200-person Hong Kong Election Committee chose Carrie Lam as chief executive—Hong Kong’s fourth leader since the United Kingdom returned the territory to Chinese rule in 1997. Unpopular with Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers and citizens, Lam’s election has exacerbated concerns about the mainlandization of Hong Kong. What does Lam’s election mean for Hong Kong’s future? —The Editors
Sin-ming Shaw, formerly a professional investor, has been a visiting fellow at Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton, studying the history of Empires. Shaw was, most recently, a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Robert Foyle Hunwick is a Beijing-based writer, editor, and media consultant who has written for publications including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Esquire. His forthcoming book about vice and crime in China will be published by I.B. Tauris.
Spectators around the cage watch the fight.
Xia rests between rounds.
Xia (left) and Bo, in the fight cage.
Xia (left) wins the fight against Bo (right).
After a blow to his hip, Bo struggled to continue fighting. Disappointed after losing, he is comforted by his sister.
