China has grown at a remarkable rate for the past four decades. The long-run plan for the nation is to continue steady growth over the next 15 years and achieve […]
China’s growing electric vehicle dominance and overcapacity presents a challenge to the west. Governments are torn between profiting from the Chinese car market and protecting its domestic manufacturers. Join us […]
From May 5 to 10 Xi Jinping will visit Europe for the first time in 5 years. But the world - and China-EU relations in particular – have changed quite […]
Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be May 23 at 6:00 PM at an embassy in the Dongzhimen area. This is our most important meeting of the year. We will […]
Our monthly Happy Hour is on Thursday at APOLLO, Sanlitun (Pacific Century Place) at 6:30 PM Let's celebrate our incoming and outgoing board members as well as welcome any newbies in town! Everyone is welcome, […]
The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a […]
Switzerland will host a high-level conference on June 15-16 aimed at achieving peace in Ukraine. But Moscow has dismissed the initiative as a waste of time. And Beijing, which has […]
China has ramped up its use of nationalistic consumer boycotts against other governments as well as foreign companies. In this talk, I discuss Beijing's mobilization of patriotic consumers as a […]
Ambition, or “the heart for moving upward and forward” (shangjinxin), is widely regarded as an unquestionable virtue in China. This perception of ambition, however, is relatively new for non-elite Chinese. […]
The Third Plenum usually sets the tone for China’s economic policies for the following five years. The high-ranking meeting should have taken place in November 2023, but was postponed several […]
Chinese and African leaders will gather in Beijing during the first week of September for the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit. This year's event comes at a pivotal […]
What happens when China becomes the established, stable, dominant power in Eurasia? Australia's former ambassador to China Geoff Raby takes the reader on a journey across Eurasia to understand the […]
