Yu-Hua Chen

on June 22, 2017

Yu-Hua Chen is an Assistant Professor in China Studies at the Global Studies Program of Akita International University (AIU), Japan. Chen graduated from the Australian National University (ANU). His research interests include China’s foreign and security policy, history of modern China, international relations theory, foreign policy of Taiwan, and geopolitics.

Prior to teaching at AIU, Chen was a visiting fellow at George Washington University, a lecturer at the ANU, an assistant at Academia Sinica, and a Second Lieutenant in Taiwan. His current research is centered around topics related to “rivalry with China.”

Big China Companies Targeted over ‘Systemic Risk’

on June 22, 2017

China’s bank regulator ordered domestic lenders to check the “systemic risk” presented by “some large enterprises” involved in overseas buying sprees, sending stock prices of some of the country’s most acquisitive private-sector companies sharply lower.

Business
Wanda, Wang Jianlin, Stock Market, Fosun International, China Banking Regulatory Commision

China Invites Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Visit Beijing

on June 22, 2017

Details of the possible trip by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, both of whom have official jobs in the White House, were still under discussion, according to a U.S. official and a Chinese official who asked not to be identified. The visit may also help prepare for a trip by the president himself, said the Chinese official, who asked not be identified disclosing plans that haven’t been announced.

Business, Politics
Donald Trump, Corruption, Washington D.C., Xi Jinping, Political Economy

Novels from China’s Moral Abyss

By Ian Johnson on June 22, 2017

Modern China was built on the nearly thirty ruthless years of Mao’s rule. The country’s elite—the “literati” of educated small landowners who held the empire together at the local level—was brutally eliminated. Almost everyone’s personal life was destroyed: homes searched for incriminating books, thoughts remolded by struggle sessions, and streets inundated by the din of tinny propaganda. People still loved and lived, but their futures depended on a capricious and brutal state that tolerated no competitors.