David Rank, top U.S. diplomat, on why he resigned to protest Trump
David Rank became the leading diplomat for one of America’s most important embassies during the transition when Iowa governor Terry Branstad formally succeeded former Montana senator Max Baucus as U.S...
22 Jun 201748min
Islamophobia in China, explained by Alice Su and Ma Tianjie
Islamophobia isn’t a phenomenon limited to Trump’s America or the Europe of Brexit and Marine Le Pen. It has taken root in China, too — in a form that bears a striking resemblance to what we’ve seen i...
15 Jun 20171h 5min
How does investigative reporting happen in China? A conversation with Li Xin of Caixin
Li Xin 李昕 is the managing director of Caixin Global, the English-language arm of China’s most authoritative financial news source, Caixin. For over 10 years, she has worked closely with the editor-in-...
8 Jun 201745min
Kai-Fu Lee on artificial intelligence in China
Kai-Fu Lee 李开复 is one of the most prominent figures in Chinese technology. He founded China’s noted early-stage venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures after launching and heading up Google’s China o...
1 Jun 20171h 1min
Reporting on Trump as a member of Chinese media
ChiaChieh Tang 唐家婕, who also goes by Jane, is a Taiwanese reporter who works as the U.S. bureau chief for Sina News (新浪新闻 xīnlàng xīnwén) in Washington, D.C. She is one of a few members of the mainlan...
25 Mai 201749min
Joseph Nye, Jr.: Chinese power in the age of Donald Trump
When Joseph Nye, Jr., first used the phrase soft power in 1990 in his book Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, China did not factor much into his calculus of world order: It had rela...
17 Mai 201756min
The negotiator: Charlene Barshefsky
Charlene Barshefsky was a name you couldn’t avoid if you were in Beijing in the late 1990s. As the United States trade representative from 1997 to 2001, she led the American team that negotiated China...
11 Mai 201749min
Bill Bishop on what it takes to be a good China-watcher
China-watching isn’t what it used to be. Not too long ago, the field of international China studies was dominated by a few male Westerners with an encyclopedic knowledge of China, but with surprisingl...
4 Mai 20171h 1min
