Evergrande: China’s “Lehman” moment? Distraught investors. Unfinished apartment units. Looming bond defaults. Evergrande, China’s second-largest property developer is in dire straits. Could its imminent collapse trigger wider, systemic tremors across China’s financial system? How did the developer trundle on for years under massive debt loads, only to collapse this year? And what do the regulatory […]
Taiwan, the US, and China: Over Golden Week, China sent more than 150 fighter planes into airspace monitored by Taiwanese defense forces. The US continues to sell arms to Taiwan and has increased official visits and recognition of the island. China continues to warn that such actions are in violation of their absolute sovereignty of Taiwan. […]
FCCC ONLINE EVENT: Germany's post-Merkel China policy Join us for an online talk about Germany’s potential China policy after the election and its implications for Europe-China relations. When: November 11, 4 PM Beijing time Where: Google Hangouts or Zoom ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Noah Barkin is a Managing Editor with Rhodium Group's China practice based in […]
While many countries are cautiously opening their borders and relying on high vaccination rates, China is one of the few to persist with a ‘zero Covid’ policy. How long can it hold out given the high socioeconomic costs of such a method and the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant? ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Ivan […]
The Communist Party’s newest “historical resolution” is a crucial step towards consolidating Xi Jinping’s power and status to equal that of Mao and Deng. In his new book Professor Shambaugh surveys China's leaders and their times from Mao through Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. He will speak about his book and these […]
Darren Byler spent years living in Xinjiang and befriending the Uyghur communities there. Soon after leaving the region to continue his doctoral studies, Chinese authorities began a massive detention and incarceration campaign in the region. Byler became one of the earliest scholars to monitor and analyze the latest crackdown in Xinjiang. He joins the club […]
On February 4 the XXIV Olympic Winter Games will open in Beijing, marking the first time a city will host both the summer and winter Olympic Games. Politics -- both within China and the Olympic movement more broadly -- have been a major point of discussion, when the International Olympic Committee selected China to host the […]
In his studies of Chinese politics, Indian researcher Manoj Kewalramani felt that national reportage and discourse often overlooked the analysis of primary source materials and open source Chinese language materials. This was the impetus behind his work on reading the People’s Daily and putting it in the public domain in the form of a daily […]
Since the end of the Cold War, Olympic Games have entered a new era in which governments see the games as a form of “public diplomacy” and non-governmental organizations target the games in publicity campaigns. The Chinese leadership intended the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to serve the pursuit of “soft power.” In the leadup to […]
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 alternative agendas. He will discuss the "republic of letters" in China that exists alongside Party-State propaganda organs. Genuine […]
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 with the West, Beijing openly supported Moscow's demands for' security guarantees' in Europe. This carefully planned display of unity […]
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 power, trade and investment relations with Europe as well as on geopolitical shifts related to China's emergence as […]
