Apr 23, 2019
An FBI counterintelligence operation is closing the door for Chinese talents to experience the American values first-hand.
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government , Claremont McKenna College
Apr 17, 2019
The dismissal of a former key finance official as chairman of China's social security fund underscores that the government that has become intolerant of internal policy disagreements.
Robert I. Rotberg, Founding Director of Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School
Apr 16, 2019
Although China outlawed ivory imports in 2017, mammal trafficking remains a prominent issue in China-Africa relations. Much more needs to be done if Africa’s elephants and rhinoceroses are to be saved from extinction.
Cai Fang, VP, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Apr 16, 2019
Citing the forecast by the United Nations’ Population Division, recently published Green Book of Population and Labor (2019) edited by Institute of Population and Labor Economics, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences announced that China’s population will reach its peak in 2029 with 1.44 billion people.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, President of Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, and Research Fellow at Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation
Apr 12, 2019
China’s increasing role in global economic, security and governance means that domestic reforms will have implications beyond its borders.
Philip Cunningham, Independent Scholar
Apr 11, 2019
In today’s political climate, there is an ever-present danger of vilification of people that are lumped together as members of a group The US media’s reaction to the Mar-a-Lago gate-crasher is yet another example of the age old us-versus-them mindset that has clouded good judgement.
Robert I. Rotberg, Founding Director of Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School
Apr 04, 2019
Many African nations are completely reliant on Chinese-made technology, but despite ongoing concerns over Chinese telecommunications operations, African nations are seemingly content with Chinese technology.
Tian Feilong, Associate Professor, the Law School of Beihang University
Apr 03, 2019
Trump’s national emergency declaration is an attempt to break what Francis Fukuyama calls a “vetocracy”: a degraded democracy where elites have lost all consensus. This clash exposes the rift between Republican believers in American nationalism and Democratic supporters of universal human rights — but it will do nothing to solve underlying issues brought by inequitable globalization.
Apr 01, 2019
Former Intepol chief Meng Hongwei, a senior Chinese police official, was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party over bribery charges.
Angela Zhang, Yenching Scholar at Peking University
Mar 20, 2019
While gender equality is hailed as a fundamental state policy in China, enshrined in the Constitution, these laws still suffer from vague wording and weak implementation. New notices are being issued to eliminate discriminatory practices altogether.