Category: China
‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”
Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”.
China Builds a New Eurasia
China’s efforts to decarbonize are upending a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and, in the process, restructuring the U.S.-led world.
Zhou Enlai: Made By the Revolution
Historian Chen Jian has published a monumental biography of Zhou Enlai that makes him the pre-eminent scholar of the contemporary Chinese diaspora.
Is there a ‘Seventh Generation’ of Chinese film-makers?
Leo Robson in Sidecar: It has not materialised in any formal sense, and the term…
Pentagon Ran Secret Anti-vax Campaign to Undermine China During Pandemic
Chris Bing and Joel Schectman at Reuters: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the…
Hackers: Patriots, Pirates or Profiteers?
Christopher K. Tong at The Conversation: A recent restructuring of China’s cyberforce and a document…
To Paint China as Manipulative in its Debt Investment is at Best Misguided and at Worst Hypocritical
Jamie Linsley-Parrish at at JSTOR Daily: If deliberate, predatory lending at a geo-political scale has…
Great Green Wall
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay in Polycrisis: Biden’s announcement this week to sharply raise tariffs on Chinese…
Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author
Yan Lianke at Literary Hub: In China we have a saying that reading a banned…
Is the Next Cold War a Drone-Swarm Race Between US and China?
Both global superpowers are building up their capacity for surging robotic warfare. What happens next…
Whoever Wants World Peace Should Shun War Economy, and War Trade
by Chinese writer Chua Qinling published in March 2023: The biggest threat to the United…
The New World (Dis)order
Irshad Salim, Karachi: Back in the summer of 2020, I drew an illustration on a…