Since 2013, thousands of Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority from western China, have traveled to Syria to train with the Uighur militant group Turkistan Islamic Party and fight alongside al-Qaida.
Gao Yan was one of the targets of an executive order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday blocking the property of foreigners involved in human rights abuses.
India and China on Friday discussed ways to prevent a repeat of a recent face-off between their armed forces at a Himalayan plateau where their borders meet.
Hu Jiamin and Marine Brossard painted a mural showing an empty blue chair at an art exhibition in Shenzhen last week.
The comeback has made Xiaomi a poster child for China’s entrepreneurial dynamism.
In China, the term is beloved by netizens who use it when surfacing the absurd in political and social phenomena they witness daily.
Jake Sullivan is a Senior Fellow in Carnegie’s Geoeconomics and Strategy Program and a Martin R. Flug Visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School.
Sullivan served in the Obama administration as National Security Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, as well as Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He was the Senior Policy Adviser on Secretary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and previously served as Deputy Policy Director on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential primary campaign and as a member of the debate preparation team for Barack Obama’s general election campaign.
Sullivan has also been a Senior Policy Adviser and Chief Counsel to Senator Amy Klobuchar from his home state of Minnesota, worked as an associate for Faegre & Benson LLP, and taught at the University of St. Thomas Law School. He clerked for Judge Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Sullivan holds undergraduate and law degrees from Yale and a Master’s degree from Oxford.
With almost 300 foreign NGO representative offices registered this year, implementation of the Foreign NGO Law has entered a new phase: management. For foreign NGOs that were operating informally or under a different status before, formal registration under the Foreign NGO Law may come with additional administrative requirements that they hadn’t had to consider before. A number of these requirements—though not all of them—relate to Article 24 of the law: foreign NGOs must adopt the Chinese unified accounting system and have their financial accounts audited by a mainland accounting firm.
As Alibaba and Tencent do battle for supremacy, companies and consumers will be caught in the crossfire
China is not sending a team to the 2018 Russia World Cup, to the dismay of fans. But the country’s businesses are not going to miss the world’s most popular sports event.
