It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked ...

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Robert Daly directs the Program on China and the United States at the University of Maryland and is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. Previously, he was Director of ...

Jessica Batke is a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a Senior Fellow at ChinaFile, where she researches China’s internet censorship system and its wider impacts on ...

This weekend, China’s leaders gather in Beijing for meetings widely expected to determine the shape of China’s economy, as well as the nation’s progress, over the next decade. What exactly the outcome ...

Kenneth Roth is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Until August 2022, he served for nearly three decades as the Executive ...

Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Parsifal D’Sola Alvarado is Founder and Executive Director of the Andrés ...

For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr—the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet—have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call themselves Uyghurs, and they have ...

Eveline Chao is a freelance writer and the author of NIUBI!: The Real Chinese You Were Never Taught in School. She lived in Beijing from 2006 to 2011. She now lives in New York and spends her free ...

Zha Jianying is a writer, journalist, and cultural commentator in both English and Chinese. She is the author of two books in English, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (named “ ...