by Lucas Niewenhuis | Sep 18, 2019 | Row 2
By Lucas Niewenhuis | September 18, 2019 China has poured mountains of cash into infrastructure projects abroad, leading smaller countries to worry about exploitation. But while there are real issues with transparency and corruption in Chinese loans, “debt trap” is...
by Jeremy Goldkorn | Sep 12, 2019 | Row 2
By Jeremy Goldkorn | September 12, 2019 China is already halfway to a high-speed rail future, where taking the train is the easy option and flying is the second choice. The most convenient way to travel between Beijing and Shanghai is by high-speed train, and that...
by Pei Hao | Sep 5, 2019 | Row 2
By Pei Hao | September 5, 2019 Nearly one in three smokers in the world is Chinese. In 2018, there were nearly 800,000 new cases of lung cancer diagnosed in China, and every year, over a million Chinese people die from tobacco-related diseases. Tobacco control...
by Siodhbhra Parkin | Aug 29, 2019 | Row 2
By Siodhbhra Parkin | August 29, 2019 Two of China’s most famous philanthropists: Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma (Mǎ Yún 马云), and Tencent co-founder Yidan “Charles” Chen (Chén Yīdān 陈一丹). In September 2018, the co-founder and executive chairman of ecommerce giant...
by Lucas Niewenhuis | Aug 15, 2019 | Row 2
By Lucas Niewenhuis | August 15, 2019 Mass internment in concentration camps, forced labor, parent-child separation: These are just a few of the realities of life for Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. Scholar Darren Byler explains. Top photo: Kashgar,...
by Siodhbhra Parkin | Aug 8, 2019 | Row 2
By Siodhbhra Parkin | August 8, 2019 Top photo: A screenshot from a video released by the Ministry of Public Security in 2018 warning groups about working with foreign NGOs. The entrance to the Beijing Public Security Bureau Overseas NGO Management Office in Haidian...
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