The life and times of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui reads much like an epic play, so it is fitting that we have included with this podcast a dramatis personæ to explain the many characters in Guo’s story. Scroll to the bottom, below the recommendations, to follow along with them in order of appearance.
As the Trump administration and their Chinese counterparts meet this week to hammer out agreements on trade, they are likely to use the same rationale—national security—to argue for very different goals.
A top Indian diplomat said China is being unusually aggressive in a month-old border dispute with India that shows no sign of easing, media reports said yesterday.
Hua Haifeng believes police arrested him and took a special interest in his work after he began investigating factories supplying Trump’s clothing brand
A Communist Party mouthpiece is crowing that malfunctioning U.S. leadership is making China “great again” on the eve of highly anticipated bilateral trade talks between the two countries.
Despite assertions from a former top diplomat, an ambassador-at-large says the Lion City will always speak up when its interests are at stake
Two worthwhile articles about civil society in China came out in earlier this month. The first, by Christian Shepard and Michael Martina of Reuters, highlights the difficulties faced by organizations attempting to register under the Foreign NGO Law. It cites three organizations—Humane Society International, National Geographic Society, and Stiftung Asienhaus—that told Reuters their operations have slowed or stopped due to the bureaucratic hurdles associated with registration.
The Trump administration risks igniting a trade war by considering slapping tariffs on steel imports.
The ruling Communist Party of China has issued a stern warning to neighboring India, with which it is engaged in a bitter border dispute that has recently seen Chinese live-fire drills and media speculation of extensive Indian military casualties denied by both sides.
Jean-Philippe Béja, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research and the Center for International Studies and Research at Sciences-Po, in Paris. He has worked for decades on relations between society and the Party in China, and he has written extensively on intellectuals and on the pro-democracy movement in the People's Republic of China. Béja also works on Hong Kong politics.
He edited The Impact of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Massacre (Routledge, 2011). He also edited an anthology of Liu Xiaobo’s works, in French, Liu Xiaobo, La philosophie du porc et autres essais (Gallimard, 2011), and co-edited with Fu Hualing and Eva Pils Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China (Hong Kong University Press, 2012).
