China conducted a long series of live-fire military drills after former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year. With the current US House Speaker potentially planning another trip to Taiwan this spring, Dr. Ling examines the Chinese PLA’s current capabilities. How could the PLA project that strength across the Taiwan Strait? How […]
This Thursday we have club drinks at Jing A CBD from 1830. It was great to see such a good turnout last month. As always all colleagues and friends welcome. If you haven’t come before (or been for a while) then please do join. Look forward to seeing you all there!
The Peking Express is an exciting and fast-paced story about China’s great train robbery of 1923 and full of banditry, political intrigue, heroism, and a reflection of the excesses of the Warlord Era in early 20th century China. The crisis — covered extensively in newspapers around the world — lasted for six weeks while the […]
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China had to postpone its annual Winter Party 2022 due to China’s dramatic exit from zero-Covid in December. The Winter Party 2022 now reincarnates as the Spring Party 2023 and will take place after the Two Sessions wrap up. On March 25 at 12:30 PM, the FCCC will host a […]
Matt Reynolds, a fellow in the Economics Program of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Matthew Goodman, a Senior Vice President at the Center, recently co-authored a paper on the ways in which China attempts to exert influence through economic coercion. Hear about their analysis of eight recent cases from Japan, Norway, the […]
Agatha will provide her view on the current state of EU-China relations, potential for transatlantic alignment on China issues, and evolutions in European business appetite in the China market. About the Speaker: Agatha Kratz is a Director at Rhodium Group. She heads Rhodium’s China corporate advisory team, as well as Rhodium’s research on European Union-China […]
Traffic on the Airport Expressway in Beijing has been worse than usual recently, as a procession of foreign dignitaries have visited the capital, including the Spanish and French premiers, as well as the President of the European Commission. Join Merics (Mercator Institute for China Studies) analysts Francesca Ghiretti and Greg Stec as they discuss what […]
Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of language, culture, and politics. Mike Chinoy's new book, "Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic," tells […]
This Thursday we have club drinks at Confidential Bar from 1830. As always all colleagues and friends welcome. If you haven’t come before (or been for a while) then please do join. Look forward to seeing you all there!
China’s economy grew by 4,5 % during the first quarter of the year, stronger than most analysts had expected. The recovery was mainly driven by private consumption and an expansion of the service sector. But a closer look at the data reveals that a stable recovery of the Chinese economy is far from certain. Investment […]
This talk provides a candid account of how the Chinese citizenry currently thinks about other nations, and their relationship with China. It draws upon findings from the first iteration of the Chinese Citizens’ Global Perception Survey (CCGPS) conducted by the speaker in the first quarter of 2023. CCGPS 2023 is a national, representative survey looking […]
Jörg Wuttke has been one of the most outspoken voices of the European business community in China. When it came to deficits and shortcomings of the investment climate in China he seldom minced his words. “Level playing field” and “equal treatment of local and foreign companies” became some of his most widely used terms. During […]
