China has offered to take part in US President Donald Trump’s US$1.5 trillion plan to repair and upgrade America’s infrastructure, saying it would complement Beijing’s own Belt and Road Initiative.
China’s state-backed semiconductor fund is near to closing a 120 billion yuan ($18.98 billion) investment round for a second fund to support the domestic chip sector and help cut reliance on imports amid a bruising trade standoff with the United States.
China’s dream of residing in a lunar palace will soon become a reality
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Teachers have long supplemented their incomes by tutoring. And there’s perhaps never been a better, or easier, time to do it than right now. The reason: China-based online education companies are in an apparent race with each other to hire U.S. teachers.
When the leaders of the world’s two most populous nations meet on Friday in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will be pushing to get less from President Xi Jinping of China.
Maria Rosaria Coduti holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Bologna, Italy. She specializes in East Asian International Relations, in particular inter-Korean relations, nuclear security in Northeast Asia, and North Korean foreign policy. She has studied in Seoul and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sheffield, England. She is a North Korea Analyst for NK News and China-US focus.
Brian Su, Deputy Director-General at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, is a senior diplomat with a distinguished career in the Foreign Service spanning three decades and overseas assignments in the United States and Canada. The majority of his career has been served in the Press Division with additional posts in the Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Transportation and as Chief Secretary of the Government Information Office. Su became an authority in crisis management after helping to direct the aid efforts in the aftermath of the 921 earthquake in Taiwan and the SARS outbreak in 2003. His educational background is in Classic Chinese Literature and Journalism with a focus on the Chinese Communist Party’s history and propaganda as well as the seven military classics, namely Sun Tzu.
As a guest on the “Democracy that Delivers” podcast, China NGO Project Editor Jessica Batke discusses the motivations behind the creation of the Foreign NGO Law, issues with the law’s implementation, and the “effects on those organizations promoting advocacy or NGOs whose objectives do not align with those of the Chinese government.”
Thomas Carothers is Senior Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In that capacity, he oversees all of the research programs at Carnegie. He also directs the Democracy and Rule of Law Program and carries out research and writing on democracy-related issues.
Carothers is a leading authority on international support for democracy, human rights, governance, the rule of law, and civil society. He has worked on democracy assistance projects for many organizations and has carried out extensive field research on aid efforts around the world.
He is the author of six critically acclaimed books and many articles in prominent journals and newspapers. He is a distinguished visiting professor at Central European University in Budapest and was previously a visiting faculty member at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Prior to joining the Endowment, Carothers practiced international and financial law at Arnold & Porter and served as an attorney adviser in the office of the legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State.
His recent publications include “Democracy Support Strategies: Leading With Women’s Political Empowerment” (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September 2016), “Is the United States Giving Up on Democracy Promotion?” (Foreign Policy, September 2016), and “Look Homeward, Democracy Promoter” (Foreign Policy, January 2016).
