Mikko Huotari: February 25, 2022

Mikko Huotari: February 25, 2022

Mikko Huotari is the Executive Director of the German China-think tank Merics, based in Berlin. His research focuses on China’s foreign policy, China-Europe relations and global (economic) governance and competition. He has published on China’s rise as a financial...

FCCC statement on Olympics reporting

February 21, 2022 The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) is dismayed that the conditions for independent reporting in China continue to fall short of international standards during the Winter Olympic Games. After an Olympic ski event, a foreign...
Jakub Jakóbowski: February 18, 2022

Jakub Jakóbowski: February 18, 2022

The latest Xi-Putin summit, held right in the middle of Europe’s biggest security crisis in decades, marked an important milestone in the China-Russia relationship. In what Xi Jinping described as ‘back-to-back’ strategic coordination in their fight...
David Ownby: February 10, 2022

David Ownby: February 10, 2022

  Chinese leaders talk a big talk on the world stage, but its interior world is more subtle. Our speaker, David Ownby, lays out the landscape of China’s marketplace of ideas, introducing us to public intellectuals who talk past the Communist Party to advance...