The China Project

This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: U.S. firms reported falling optimism for their China operations amid concerns over Sino-U.S. tensions, but many are still...

This week on Sinica, Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist Ian Johnson, now a senior China fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Kaiser to discuss...

Chinese lending to African countries plunged to below a billion dollars in 2022, the lowest level in two decades, according to new data from the...

The Mukden Incident — when explosives detonated along the route of the South Manchurian Railway near Shenyang — was a pretext for Japanese aggression in...

There was a glimmer of hope last month that China and India would pull back from their increasingly contentious standoff when military commanders concluded talks...

This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: The EU says it will launch an investigation into Chinese subsidies for electric vehicles in a bid to...

The Chinese Foreign Ministry was among the first major governments this week to welcome the African Union as the newest member of the G20. The...

This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Representative Rick Larsen of the Washington 2nd District, the co-founder and continuously serving Democratic co-chair of the bipartisan...

Lin Biao was a principal architect of the cult of Mao Zedong. It would lead to his undoing. Click here to read the article by...

Beijing’s ban on Japanese seafood, coupled with rising animosity toward all things Japanese, have sent sushi restaurants in China searching for alternative supplies and, in...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative marked its 10th anniversary this month, prompting a lot of discussion about what’s next for Beijing’s controversial development agenda. While...

China is known for its megacities, but 42% of it is wilderness — the barren and primitive, but also pockets of spectacular biodiversity. As the...

“Being bullied in school is something that can happen to anyone,” Lui shares. “The subjects in my photos are meant to simply be symbolic. The...

This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: China’s retail sales growth may have been weak in the first half of the year, but spending on...

In the early 20th century, Chessboard Street in Shanghai was the heart of the Chinese publishing industry. This is where our story begins: when Li...

This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Karen Hao, a reporter recently with the Wall Street Journal whose previous work with the MIT Technology Review has been featured on Sinica; and by Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, who has been on the show many times just in the last three years. Both Karen and Deborah have written persuasively about the im...

There’s been a surge of activity in Africa-ASEAN relations in recent weeks highlighted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s recent African tour and the Singapore-Africa Business...

In an otherwise restrained era for Chinese youth, the return of brightly colored, highly customizable rubber clogs allows for both escape and self-expression. Click here...

Indonesia suspended diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China from 1967 to 1990 and restricted Chinese-language lessons and literature. But the two countries now...

John and Jared discuss 5 principles to optimize your note-taking for language learning to maximize your learning gains. Guest interview is with Nick Anderson, a...

This week on the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief: Beijing launches a sweeping policy package to rescue the property market, China extends income tax breaks for foreigners...

Over the past 20 years, tens of thousands of kilometers of new railway lines have been built across Africa – much of it constructed and...

This week on Sinica, MIT professor Yasheng Huang joins Kaiser to talk about his brand new book The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How...

The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a border between Manchu China and Romanov Russia. It was negotiated in a remote region between two sides that distrusted...

The failure of G20 countries last month to agree on a plan to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 highlights a key problem in the...