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Ian Johnson moves to Berlin
China veteran Ian Johnson, author of China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future (September 2023), announces he will leave as senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and move from New York to Berlin. He will work as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and work from Berlin starting on July 1, 2024, writing a new book on the misuses of religion in Xi’s China in the summer of 2024.Read More →
Still unclear what happened to Qin Gang – Victor Shih
What happened to former foreign minister Qin Gang one year ago is still unclear. After a stellar career, the sudden disappearance of Qin triggered a slew of rumors, including an extramarital affair with a British spy, an affair with Xi Jinping’s daughter, and more speculations. Political analyst Victor Shih tells Politico that China’s leadership is still unsure of how to handle this case.Read More →
Preparing for the next industrial revolution – Alvin Wang Graylin
AI-expert Alvin Wang Graylin, c0-author of Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, gives the commencement address at the 2024 UW ECE Graduation Ceremony, telling the new generation how the next industrial revolution will work out in their lives and careers. What challenges will the graduates face in the next ten years?Read More →
Assessing the Impact of US-China Rivalry on Ukraine and Taiwan – Kaiser Kuo
China veteran Kaiser Kuo of the Sinica Podcast moderates a discussion on how the US-China tension have an profound impact on the war in the Ukraine and the position of Taiwan at the Ukrainian platform for Contemporary China.Read More →
Living in the metaverse – Alvin Wang Graylin
Alvin Wang Graylin discusses his book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, in Moonshots, together with Peter Diamandis, and discuss how AI and AR will affect all aspects of society in the coming future.Read More →
How China is saving supply chains for semiconductors – Winston Ma
China is pumping billions of US dollars to safeguard the essential supply of semiconductors, now into a third state-back fund, says Winston Ma adjunct professor of law at NYU School of Law at CNBC.Read More →
China’s tourists opt for domestic, cheaper destinations – Ashley Dudarenok
In numbers, the Chinese tourists might be reaching this year pre-pandemic levels, but their destinations will be more domestic and cheaper, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok at CNBC. She expects recovery in Chinese traveling internationally to take longer, partly as “the feeling that the rest of the world is mad and unsafe is even higher than in 2023.”Read More →
Why China started to support traditional faiths – Ian Johnson
Foreign media too often focus on China’s crackdown on religion, but former foreign correspondent Ian Johnson, author of Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future, sees an opposite trend as China’s government started to support traditional faiths, in an effort to gain new legitimacy, he writes in the Council on Foreign Relations. Read More →
China’s state of the economy – Shaun Rein
Business analyst Shaun Rein discusses the current state of China’s economy, how consumer confidence is slowly recovering, and why the fear of geopolitical tensions stops them from spending more in the economy. Why investors should be careful in investing right now into the second economy.Read More →
AI Metaverse: the new industrial revolution – Alvin Wang Graylin
AI and XR Metaverse expert Alvin Wang Graylin of HTC explains in an interview with Ashley Dudarenok how fast development will cause a new industrial revolution that will bring us to the next level of development. He co-authored Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, Read More →
Why China’s authors do not reach Western bookshelves – Ian Johnson
During the Cold War, authors from Eastern Europe and Russia belonged to household names among Western elites, but today translations of their Chinese counterparts failed to make it to Western bookshelves, says Ian Johnson, author of Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future. One of the reasons is the changed commercial business models of publishing houses, he says in an extensive interview in China Law & Policies.Read More →
China: Not yet fully cashless – Sara Hsu
Cashless payments have become mainstream in China, but cash is still valuable and the government supports cash payments, says financial expert Sara Hsu, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, specializing in supply chain management in the Guardian. A “[recent] directive pushes China’s policy of inclusive finance further to ensure that both elderly Chinese and foreigners can participate in economic transactions,” says Hsu.Read More →