Air China, the only Chinese carrier with regular services to North Korea, clarified on Friday that it was not suspending flights between Beijing and Pyongyang, state media reported.
Plans for Xiongan New Area, an economic zone about 100 kilometers south of Beijing, are becoming more clear. President Xi Jinping said, “The capital's core functions should be preserved and strengthened, and some inappropriate functions adjusted and weakened.”
Mao Yishu is a Junior Research Associate at Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), where her research currently focuses on the identities of Chinese overseas and China’s digital policies. She studied in the Global Studies Program (M.A.) at Humboldt University in Berlin and spent part of her studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the Latin American Social Sciences Institute in Buenos Aires. In her thesis, she analyzed the political attitudes of Chinese students in Germany. Mao holds a B.A. in Literature from Bard College in the United States. She was a ChinaFile Intern.
At a time of strained and erratic relations between the U.S. and China, Ivanka Trump, the President’s daughter and, more recently, a member of his administration, has emerged as an unlikely but singularly potent emissary, not to just to China’s leaders but to many of its citizens. After a clip of her daughter Arabella singing “Happy New Year” in Mandarin went viral in February, she brought her children to serenade Xi Jinping during his early April visit to her father’s Mar-a-Lago resort. But her appeal goes beyond contrived moments of familial diplomacy. “Even Chinese commentators who are utterly skeptical of the President have pointed to Ivanka as the most respectable of an otherwise dubious cohort,” Jiayang Fan writes in The New Yorker. And some Chinese netizens nevertheless (contradictorily) accept Ivanka as both a self-made woman and an heir to a powerful dynasty. Why is this? And what does it mean for U.S.-China relations during the Trump administration?
In this edition of the China in Africa podcast, we pull the focus back to look at China’s rapidly evolving foreign policy agenda in this new era of Western populism led by Donald Trump in the United States.
Contact information (in Chinese) for the Foreign NGO Management Law Legal Services Lawyers’ Group, which provides legal consultation and proxy services to foreign NGOs and individuals.
A resource and support organization for and about the Christian community in China that offers consulting services related to the Foreign NGO Law.
Contact information for the Foreign NGO Registration Support Program, run by the the Center for Charity Law under the Beijing Normal University China Philanthropy Research Institute (CPRI).
A blog run by Anthony Spires, Ph.D., that includes the results of survey work done by foreign NGOs in China. Spires is Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a research fellow with the School of Philanthropy at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. He studies Chinese and outside organizations working on environmental issues, labor rights, HIV-AIDS, and education, among other subjects.
A website that houses the original Chinese text of laws and regulations and crowd-sources unofficial English translations.
